Public health and preventive medicine

Human reliability and error have become a very important issue in health care, owing to the vast number of associated deaths each year.

On 12 March 2003, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a global alert on the outbreak of a new form of pneumonia-like disease with symptoms that are similar to those of the common flu.

Health psychology is an offer of help, an effort to understand how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health and illness.

A disease that has given globalization a bad name, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has plagued no fewer than 30 areas in recent months.

With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.

In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming many lives.

This practical guide provides a simple, useful reference to commonly raised questions about medical student assessment.

Initially stimulated by a scholarly workshop convened in Singapore in late 2004, and written over the subsequent 18 months, this volume considers the potentially lethal pattern of infectious disease emergence in Asia.

This timely book covers the basic concepts of the dynamics of epidemic disease, presenting various kinds of models as well as typical research methods and results.

This book covers the entire spectrum of health effects induced by chronic arsenic poisoning, which is prevalent in more than 30 countries due to the use of unclean underground water, a result of surface water pollution and shortage.

This volume discusses the importance of positive schooling in producing responsible and potentially productive adults.

Handbook of Adolescent Medicine and Health Promotion is a medical handbook for health providers, residents, and students as well as other interdisciplinary practitioners who promote the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults.

This unique volume provides self-contained accounts of some recent trends in Biostatistics methodology and their applications.

Cancers are on the rise across the world.

This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further.

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

This book systematically assesses the risk of 21 major infectious diseases threatening BRI countries.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

This book highlights the estimate of epidemic characteristics for different countries/regions in the world with the use of known SIR (susceptible-infected-removed) model for the dynamics of the epidemic, the known exact solution of the linear differential equations and statistical approach developed before.

This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society.

This book is a collection of policy briefs produced from research presented at the 16th Conference on Urban Health in Xiamen, China, November 4-8, 2019, under the theme "e;People Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cities for Health and Well-Being"e;, co-organized by the Urban Health and Wellbeing (UHWB) programme of the International Science Council (ISC).

This atlas presents dermoscopic-histopathological correlations of dermatologic and pathological presentations seen in the Asian subcontinent.

This book provides insights on innovative strategies to build resilient food systems in the wake of challenges posed by climate change.

The main focus of this book is providing evidence on and interpreting the risks associated with heated tobacco products (HTPs) in terms of their health effects and social effects; in addition, the author introduces a harm reduction theory related to HTPs and electronic cigarettes.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

"e;Healthy China 2030"e; is a national strategy for improving the health of the population and coordinating health and socio-economic development, and a major means for the country to participate in global health governance and meet targets set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

This novel and informative book discusses the various aspects of seafood quality.

This book mainly focuses on advances made over the past 10 years regarding the exposure, metabolism, transformation, toxicity, molecular mechanism and biomarkers for emerging chemicals in humans.

This book is written in a very easy-to-follow format, and explains the key concepts of biomedical statistics in a lucid yet straightforward manner.

This book presents an overview of up-converting phosphor (UCP), including UCP preparation, development of the rapid detection strips and UCP industrialization.

This book offers a systematic introduction to Budd-Chiari syndrome, a rare but life-threatening vascular disorder of the liver, which refers to obstructions at any site from the hepatic veins to the suprahepatic inferior vena cava.

This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health.

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

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the field of healthcare delivery systems.

This unique volume focuses on the 'tools' of medical statistics.

Following the publication of Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy edited by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch, this second volume of case studies will complement the first volume and extends its scope.

Epigenetics is emerging as an important factor in risk of diseases of global importance including obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

The 2009 influenza pandemic, like all emerging infections, had unique characteristics and challenges.

This textbook is about the law of medical malpractice and how to prevent a malpractice lawsuit.

Latest Edition: Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice (4th Edition)This book provides a link between occupational health and clinical practice.

This book discusses systematically treatment on the development of stochastic, statistical and state space models of the HIV epidemic and of HIV pathogenesis in HIV-infected individuals, and presents the applications of these models.

This book takes a very practical approach to presenting a readable source of radiation protection material for anyone working in the areas of radiological and health sciences.

This textbook consists of three parts: basic concepts of statistics, advanced statistical methods, and design and analysis for medical research.

This book introduces novel and groundbreaking theories on social medicine, social medicine therapy and pharmacogelotology.

This book presents a detailed overview of the healthcare environment in Viet Nam.

The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology (ICoSSEET2015), a conference dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of sports science, exercise, sports engineering and technology including other areas of sports, thereby presenting a consolidated view to the interested researchers in the aforesaid fields.

This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach in order to evaluate the socio-ecological dimensions of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia.

This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings.