Medicine

Nutrition is an essential component of the work of all health and community workers, including...

Despite efforts to curb tobacco use, global tobacco addiction remains as strong as ever. Smoking...

The identified lives effect describes the fact that people demonstrate a stronger inclination to assist...

This book presents the current place and future role of the community health worker. The...

Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of Life critically reviews the key theoretical...

Health and sustainability have become ubiquitous topics in all realms of popular discourse. What these...

In Valuing Health Daniel M. Hausman provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement...

"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from...

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic tested the limits of the public health emergency preparedness systems in...

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s,...

For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate...

Explaining the practical implications of new discoveries in 'life-course biology', Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy...

Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being outlines an innovative and...

Violence has always been, and is to this day, a primary cause of tension and...

The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health...

This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology -- the most updated since its inception...

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and...

The Politics of Wounds explores military patients' experiences of frontline medical evacuation, war surgery, and...

Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be...

There is very little argument that the world is facing severe environmental challenges. Ongoing air...

By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has...

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in...

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct impact of...

The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health...

Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology is an in-depth study of contemporary issues and emerging themes...

Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater...

There is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily...

Advancing the Human Right to Health offers a prospective on the global response to one...

The increasing incidence and prevalence of allergic disease worldwide is one of the most remarkable...

The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global...

Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front line public health practitioners through the...

Every year over a quarter of a million children die of AIDS. Another two million...

The first edition of this book was published almost a decade ago to provide a...

Mastering Public Health will enable you to improve your performance and productivity within your organization...

We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused...

Infectious diseases remain a predominant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Clinicians are facing new...

Global Occupational Health is a concise, complete introduction to a vital-but often neglected-area in the...

Diabetes affects over 200 million people worldwide; its chronic nature and long-term economic burden make...

Guidelines for conducting health economic evaluations have become increasingly standardized, however they don't address the...

The landmark National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) study represents the first effort...

Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care....

Research in children's mental health lags behind research for adults in part because it is...

Panic disorder is a remarkably common psychological condition, characterized by sudden attacks of intense fear...