Public health and preventive medicine

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea.

Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities--all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework--this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) toolkits.

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion.

The book's purpose is to help community-based primary care physicians and nurses, and laboratory-based microbiologists, better understand each other's requirements in collecting and interpreting specimens, and thus to improve the quality of patient care, while saving resources and reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescription.

In The Pandemic Effect, 90 leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and citiesand propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics, viruses, and contagious diseases on every scale, from surfaces to society.

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This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.

Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr.

In recent years, researchers around the globe have deep dived into the fascination world of the Macrophage and its diverse role in tissue development, angiogenesis, and wound healing, and above all the untapped mystery of the wondering immune system within our body.

Viruses and Climate Change, Volume 114 in the Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on carbon-cycle and vector-borne viruses.

This handbook discusses the latest findings from different fields of positive psychology from a global perspective by providing a coherent framework to get a better understanding of the development and practice of positive psychology.

This book is the first authoritative medical text that considers the unique cultural backgrounds of Hispanic populations in a straightforward yet sensitive way, all while building a framework for practical psychiatric assessment and treatment plans.

This book is about containment, life, work, and restart cities affected by COVID 19, using selected empirical case studies.

Resveratrol is a structurally simple, grape-derived polyphenol with seemingly boundless biological activities.

This book is an up-to-date reference on some of the major global health issues and the role of nutrition in their prevention and management.

The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors is the first edited volume to present multidisciplinary perspectives on various aspects of changes that humans experience.

The most complete and up-to-date text on the art and science of embalmingThis new edition of the trusted classic delivers the most current information on the art and science of embalming, restorative art, and mortuary cosmetology.

This Reference Work provides a comprehensive overview of bioactive compounds found in underutilized fruits and nuts around the world and it elucidates their pharmacological, biological and health effects.

The field of transplant medicine has evolved significantly since the first kidney transplant was performed in 1954.

This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health.

Women represent the majority of people working to improve health outcomes in communities, non-governmental and multilateral organizations, both as paid and unpaid health and social care workers.

This book reviews the myriad of elements that layer substance abuse disorder, a significant public health issue.

The book Coronavirus Therapeutics Volume I provides the most comprehensive review on contemporary knowledge on the origin and structural biology and molecular aspects of Coronaviruses.

Environmental Noise Pollution, Second Edition, addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution, its modelling and mitigation using examples from across the globe.

This book explores the role that some natural molecules found in fruits and vegetables, and their derivatives, play in excessive oxidation reactions that lead to inflammation in the human body.

Heat Exposure and Human Health in the Context of Climate Change introduces the effects of heat on human health, especially in the context of climate change.

Bioactive Lipids presents the topic of bioactive lipids from a functional food development perspective.

As a follow-up to COVID-19 in New York City: an Ecology of Race and Class Oppression, which showed that decades of discriminatory public policies shaped the Bronx into the epicenter of the first wave of COVID-19, this book examines the build up to the crest and subsequent ebbing of the second wave of COVID-19 across the 62 counties of New York State (NYS) and 152 ZIP Code areas of the four central boroughs of New York City (NYC).

This book highlights and suggests remedies for the racial and ethnic health disparities confronting people of color amid COVID-19 in the United States.

Health Care Today in the United States details the complexities of health care in the United States and provides readers with up-to-date information on the state of health care, its challenges, and how to navigate the system.

Smart homes, home automation and ambient-assisted living are terms used to describe technological systems that enrich our living environment and provide means to support care, facilitate well-being and improve comfort.

This book provides a focused resource on how cardiac surgery capacity can be developed and how it assists in the sustainable development and strengthening of associated health systems.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

This book provides an original analysis of the trajectory of health policy reform in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the 'Thatcher reforms' in the 1980s right up to the latest changes in England in 2022.

The Covid pandemic has led us into an upheaval that has made us question the certainties underlying what it means to be a human being in our age; the ability to control medical and social facts through evidence.

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues.

This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging.

Dieses Herausgeberwerk vereint die Vorträge und zusammengefassten Diskussionen der 7.

This handbook examines health and medical care in the Arab world from a systems biology approach.