Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, ...

Brand-name pharmaceutical companies can delay generic competition that lowers prices by agreeing to pay a generic competitor to hold its competing ...

The book was developed based on the expertise of four research groups, three of them linked to the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP): Studies ...

This book is a collection of latest works that show the unique roles and positions of different health care professionals on the arena of health ca...

Following the September 11th, 2011, terrorist attacks, Congress provided appropriations to furnish health care services for rescue, recovery and cl...

Vaccines play an essential role in keeping humans and animals healthy. The vaccine has been one of the most important interventions designed to bot...

Public Health Yearbook 2017 present research on: adolescent alcohol use in the Caribbean region; discussion about how to break the cycle of child a...

This book describes the origin of the Pilates method with its principles and foundations idealized by its creator, Joseph H Pilates. Based on his e...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

The aim of Volume 11 is to provide evidence on the indicators of fluid distribution and cellular integrity evaluated by nioelectrical impedance ana...

A variety of topics are presented in this book that seek to reflect on medical history before and after the golden age of the Medical Renaissance. ...

In 2013, about 10 million adults in the United States had a serious mental illness. The U.S. mental health care system includes a range of federal ...

The U.S. Armed Forces used a variety of chemical defoliants to clear dense jungle land in Vietnam during the war. Agent Orange (named for the orang...

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

Falls are considered as one of the accidents that take more loss of functionality, mainly in older adults. This book begins with a discussion on th...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One reviews sialic acids in early life and their impac...

Striking changes have occurred in the world since the publication of the last edition of Viral Infections of Humans. The global population is rapid...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

This unique book presents original research from the largest cross-national survey of the epidemiology of mental disorders ever conducted. It provi...

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Eq...

This book explains what has been happening to the NHS since the 2012 Act. It challenges myths: that the NHS was broke, that we can''t afford the NH...

This title deals with internationally documented variations in medical practice and health service that exist across countries as well as regions a...

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and wate...

Asbestos have been used in many different environments, including industrial and home construction projects, vehicles, railroads and shipyards, to ...

Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 250...