Public Health & Preventive Medicine

During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases t...

Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation's health problems and enhancing public well-being. S...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the regulatory agency in the US Department of Agriculture that is responsible for ensuring that me...

Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others,...

Lead is a heavy metal used since ancient times and is still employed for several industrial purposes due to its suitable physical and chemical prop...

Alcohol consumption patterns are characterized as mild, moderate, social, heavy drinking, problem drinking, binge drinking and heavy episodic drink...

Why medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States.Bronze Wi...

The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in deve...

Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others,...

The world's aging populations, with age-related disorders affecting every organ system, are generating medical care costs rising at an unsustainabl...

Public Health is one of the fastest growing university programs in the United States today. At the same time, the challenges that face the practiti...

An insiders view of the state-supported AIDS denial of South African leaders Thabo Mbeki and Manto Shabalala-Msimang, this memoir describes a great...

Clinical trials provide essential information needed to turn basic medical research findings into patient treatments. New treatments must be studie...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law...

The rapid increases in world food prices since 2005 have raised widespread concerns about their possible impact on poverty, hunger, and general pro...

In 2008, Congress banned the use in children''''s toys and child care articles of several chemicals known to disrupt normal development and reprodu...

This book discusses how the current health insurance market structure affects the two policy goals of expanding health insurance coverage and conta...

This book provides a brief overview of GINA, an overview of relevant PPACA and GINA provisions relating to the provision of health insurance throug...

The Medicare program enables millions of beneficiaries to obtain health care services; however, lacks many of the essential elements of a high-qual...

One of the most essential aspects in life for anyone in any society is health and well-being. It is the indispensable base on which happiness is ba...

Non-profit hospitals receive billions of dollars in governmental subsidies due to their status as charitable organisations. Benefits that arise fro...