Public Health & Preventive Medicine

How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? ...

The process in which calcium salts build up in soft tissue, causing it to harden is known as calcification and may be classified based on whether t...

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...

The link between physical activity and health benefits has been intuitively known for years. Moreover, medical literature clearly demonstrates that...

Mobile phone use in the United States has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, and Americans increasingly rely on mobile phones as their sole...

Steroid hormones secreted from peripheral reproductive endocrine tissues regulate many important physiological functions not only during developmen...

In public health and in medicine, the concept of health-related quality of life refers to a person or group''''s perceived physical and mental heal...

Children in rural areas face particular risks to their health and well-being. Some risks relate to their demographic characteristics; rural childre...

In 2013, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimated that about 1.5 million veterans required mental health care, including services for Majo...

The NHS is more than a good idea. It is beautiful. And it is you. The importance of the NHS - and the public's affection for it - cannot be oversta...

In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman...

Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to sav...

It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems ...

Climate change has been identified as the biggest global health threat of the twenty-first century. Hundreds of millions of people around the world...

In an age of internet resource guides, which suffer from the malaise of being outdated before they are published, this much-needed publication addr...

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors...

With contributions from leading international academics across the social sciences, this accessible handbook takes a critical look at the key theor...

In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as n...

Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health is the first volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health serie...

The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early ...

William H. Foege, one of the most respected leaders in global public health, takes readers on a tour of his time at the CDC.In its seventy years, t...