Public Health & Preventive Medicine

The Fifteen Minute Hour is well-established as a classic text, providing invaluable support for primary care practitioners aiming to increase patie...

... well-structured with good bullet points, diagrams, and quality coloured pictures making it most easy to read. Overall, I considered this littl...

Published in association with NASPAG, this updated second edition gives quick access to the essential information. The authors combine their clinic...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target unsafe, unhealthy and/or risky behaviours. The...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination agains...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

It is a common assumption that sport is good for us and that participation in sport embodies public health benefits. With sport being increasingly ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351026987, has been made available under a Creat...

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe cons...

Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for ...

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increase...

Authored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Globa...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings ...

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young peoples diets, and a pu...

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their p...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...

The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both State and Non-...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

This text is a comprehensive review in normal and abnormal pregnancy physiology, the most common etiologies of maternal medical emergencies, recogn...

Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UKs public health priorities into one comprehensible text...

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the multiple meanings of empowerment. Rather than seeking to define and critique this term, ...

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantityand quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of...

This is the first book to analyze in depth the current causes of shortage of family physicians and the relative weakness of the family practice mod...

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global cha...

Viruses do not behave as other microbes; their life cycles require infecting healthy cells, commandeering their cellular apparatus, replicating and...

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments a...

The Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Failure Time Data: A Marginal Modeling Approach provides an innovative look at methods for the analysis of...

This book focuses on analytical similarity assessment in biosimilar product development following the FDAs recommended stepwise approach for obtain...

This title was first published in 2000: The first book to examine stress in doctors families in the United Kingdom, this book outlines the results ...