Environmental medicine

Significant zoonotic diseases have appeared with increasing frequency in recent years.

A highly disabling infectious disease in developing countries, leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, and is still very relevant for the human community due to its transmissible nature, variable presentation and composite clinical picture.

This book offers a survey of the state of the art in the field of motion sickness.

This book brings together the most current thinking and research on educator stress and how education systems can support quality teachers and quality education.

This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI).

This book gathers cutting-edge research and best practices relating to occupational risk and safety management, healthcare and ergonomics.

This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI).

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors focus on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing, deviating from previous research that mostly looks at the individual worker or intervention.

A highly disabling infectious disease in developing countries, leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, and is still very relevant for the human community due to its transmissible nature, variable presentation and composite clinical picture.

This volume of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) series covers the most prevalent NTDs in Europe and Central Asia.

This book is concerned with human factors and ergonomics research and developments in the design and use of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of research and developments relating to human reliability, performance and safety analysis, and human error, risk and safety management in various industrial contexts, such as manufacturing, transportation and health.

This new edition describes the role of heat shock proteins in the life cycle of malaria parasites, particularly in the context of intracellular parasite stages.

Offering an example for transnational cooperation and successful reduction of a neglected tropical disease, this volume shows how Chinese scientists and local physicians controlled schistosomiasis in Zanzibar.

This thematic collection focuses on key parasites and their vectors in Southeast Asia.

This book is aimed at surgeons faced with the immediate management of acute surgical problems in a variety of resource settings.

This book highlights the work of pioneers in this field, in order to inspire their peers, healthcare leaders and an interested audience.

This volume of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) series covers the most prevalent NTDs in North America.

Within the digital era, agile working is imperative for organisations and workers to meet the needs of customers, service-users and ever-changing markets.

This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

This book brings together studies broadly addressing human error and safety management from the perspectives of various disciplines, and shares the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book is intended as a manual and offers an essential tool for practicing and occupational dermatologists, for postgraduates training in dermatology and allergo-immunology, and for allergologists and occupational physicians.

This book provides occupational health (OH) professionals with a theoretical basis for addressing the ethical issues that they confront in their practice.

This new edition updates the previous one and adds additional content related to postoperative management, pain management, LGBTQ care,  and uroradiology.

This unique book provides an introduction to the fascinating field of tropical nephrology, covering nephrology, infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to the dermatologic disorders that may be encountered in refugees and other migrants.

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are largely Latinx men, women, and children.

This revised and updated new edition of a successful book is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases.

This book covers the latest advances in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer care.

This casebook profiles exceptional traumatic injury prevention programs from all over the globe.

The fourth edition of this important book, which includes additional color illustrations, has been extensively revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the most recent developments.

This book presents an innovative method to improve workers' health and prevent occupational accidents: the Change Laboratory, a method of formative intervention that enables the organization's participants to identify, with the help of facilitators, the historical and systemic origins of work processes anomalies (environmental problems, work safety and health, quality and productivity problems, problems related to labor relations, etc).

This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations.

This book discusses how digital technology and demographic changes are transforming the patient experience, services, provision, and planning of health and social care.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and addresses the design of products, processes, services, and work systems to ensure they are productive, safe, and enjoyable for people to use.

This textbook provides students and the broader aviation community with a complete, accessible guide to the subject of human factors in aviation.

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this unique text discusses the opportunities and challenges to the practice of orthopedic surgery in resource-limited environments around the world.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of diseases frequently found in impoverished communities in tropical and sub-tropical countries.

This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life.

Human African Trypaniosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness is an old disease to be now considered as reemergent.

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.

At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War.

Travel health nursing has evolved as a distinct and increasingly complex specialty, drawing upon the knowledge of nursing, pharmacology, epidemiology, tropical medicine, primary care, and behavioral psychology.

This unique volume presents an up-to-date review of one of the world's major health problems - diseases caused by the four dengue viruses.

Continued geographic expansion of dengue viruses and their mosquito vectors has seen the magnitude and frequency of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) increase dramatically.

The role natural environments play in human health and wellbeing is attracting increasing attention.