Public Health & Preventive Medicine

In 2009, malaria infected an estimated 225 million people and killed 781,000 people, most of whom, were children under the age of five in sub-Sahar...

The presence of an anal fissure is reliably associated with an elevated intra-anal pressure and decreased blood flow to the anoderm. Symptoms inclu...

A good doctor must pay attention to cultural and anthropological factors that influence a patient''''s lifestyle and any resulting need to adjust p...

Physical therapy is a health profession that assesses and provides treatment to individuals to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and f...

Fatigue is the most common and frequent symptom that people experience, yet the field of medicine has not paid all that much attention to it until ...

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic was the first human pandemic in over four decades, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estima...

This book summarises the available evidence on the comparative efficacy, effectiveness, and harms of 12 second-generation antidepressants: bupropio...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of cancer prevention. Topics discussed include the etiological models of prostate ca...

This book is divided into three sections. Entitled Critical Harm Reduction Policy: From Oppositional Social Movement to Institutionalised Public He...

Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts and informed choices...

Adolescent Health Literacy and Learning offers insights to all those who care about promoting and assisting adolescent health development: health e...

The World Health Organization defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve, their health . I...

Today, on a global level, the health sector and social services need alternatives to traditional medical treatment, therapy, rehabilitation, and wo...

In the Caribbean, sexuality is omnipresent; that is, it is seen but not heard. The Caribbean region can be characterised as a dualistic society. On...

Forensic psychiatry is frequently defined as the branch of psychiatry that deals with issues arising in the interface between psychiatry and law. F...

This book is an attempt to tackle some of the key global health challenges with a focus on the leading, emerging countries and mature free-market e...

The Break the Cycle program has been an annual academic event since 2005, recruiting students from many different disciplines and departments at ...

Alzheimer''''s disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease which commonly occurs later in life. In the early stages of AD, everyday ta...

This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/commu...

In this Public Health Yearbook 2011 the authors will touch upon several topics like health risk communication, translational research, primary care...

India or the Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, in fact the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with...

Lung development is a methodical and co-ordinated process that culminates in the creation of an organ that contains airways, alveoli, blood vessels...

This yearbook compiles articles published in the International Public Health Journal, a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international multi...

The need to better prepare physicians for rural and remote practice continues to be a pressing issue in medical education around the world. Rural a...

Health literacy offers a new way of thinking about how we engage with information about and for health, both as users and providers of information....

Physicians are well trained in conventional medicine and most are well acquainted with integrative medicine, which incorporates conventional and al...

This book aims to present some fundamental pillars that must be taken into account for the design and construction of a medical record system. The ...

The provision of health care in the United States has been described as fragmented, with patients seeing multiple providers. Fragmented care has be...

The health communication strategies presented in this book are based on the understanding that there are many factors underpinning health. Starting...

In this book, the health impacts of promoting walking to school as part of a comprehensive health impact assessment (HIA) were examined. The chapte...

Job burnout has been well described and refers to a transformation that occurs in persons exposed to considerable occupational stress, particularly...

Understanding the supply, distribution, and educational pipeline of nurses is key to designing programs and policies that will ensure access to car...

Formaldehyde (FA) is a highly reactive compound with a toxic effect on all organisms due to non-specific interactions with proteins and nucleic aci...

Sedentary behaviours include activities at the lowest spectrum of energy expenditure such as lying down, sitting, watching television, using the co...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in individuals older than 65 years of age. The authors of this book discus...

This book aims to report on the status of one of the most important phycocolloids in the food industry (E407 - carrageenan). The natural resources ...