Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Global public health is in a state of crisis. Although some improvements in population health are discernible, health inequalities remain widesprea...

This report summarises the methodology and results of a research project commissioned by BRE Trust to quantify how much the improvements to social ...

An intensive-care doctor reveals the long-term problems caused by ICUs, and how these can be prevented. Thousands of people are admitted to intensi...

This book explores prejudice towards groups who are thought to have caused and spread the COVID-19 virus. The book examines four cases around the w...

This book may offer a cautionary tale in the age of Covid-19. The narratives we shape around disease in society are so often about politics, and th...

We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planet...

Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women''s health care today: all models of medical research and practice are ...

Evidence indicates a correlation between early intervention and improved response in psychiatric disorders. Yet the majority of evidence is from hi...

This highly practical guide is ideal for any medical professional who deals with the aerospace environment or is involved in the healthcare of airc...

Some aspects of public health vary by locality or jurisdiction. Political challenges are not one of them. As governments on every scale become mot...

A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIV Structural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influenc...

In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the rep...

Healthcare is very much dependent on the model of the patient that is assumed by healthcare providers. The current model derives from a chemical/me...

The differences between alcohol, food, gambling, and tobacco as consumer products are obvious. Yet research suggests that there are underlying simi...

Antimicrobial agents are essential for the treatment of life-threatening infections and for managing the burden of minor infections in the communit...

The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation ...

Offers a nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and Mexico's Departamento de Salubr...