Public health and preventive medicine

As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring budget.

The bestselling UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION makes the science of nutrition meaningful and memorable.

Providing a solid foundation, NUTRITION & DIET THERAPY, 12E delivers a completely up-to-date introduction to the essentials of nutrition concepts, good health, and client care.

Teaching you how to interpret and apply scientific data, Dunford/Doyle's NUTRITION FOR SPORT AND EXERCISE, 4th Edition, emphasizes the scientific basis for sports nutrition recommendations and highlights current research studies of trained athletes.

Learn how ethnic factors affect tobacco use The addiction to smoking is remarkably resistant to intervention, bringing with it a multitude of health issues among users that can at times co-occur with psychiatric disorders.

Explore the impact of AIDS on the gay bathhouse culture Public health policy on bathhouses has been limited and poorly documented.

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia.

Medical geography is a fascinating area of rapidly evolving study that aims to analyse and improve worldwide health issues based on the geographical factors which have an impact on them.

Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among the world's most common genetic conditions.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

Explore international trends in health and longevity--with a special focus on older women!

Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that of DePaul University and the Oxford House communityThis book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University.

Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that of DePaul University and the Oxford House communityThis book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University.

Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDSAn effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a wide range of scientists, clinicians, front-line workers, and clients distribute theory, care, and resource knowledge geometrically through all levels.

This much-needed book presents an introduction and overview of multicultural AIDS issues in social work practice.

Smoking, diet, stress, coping, and exercise, among other behaviors and psychological states, are now clearly implicated in the development of cardiovascular diseases.

Smoking, diet, stress, coping, and exercise, among other behaviors and psychological states, are now clearly implicated in the development of cardiovascular diseases.

This volume presents a systems approach to understanding and managing the AIDS crisis - an approach that addresses the needs not only of HIV- infected individuals, but also of families and communities at risk from AIDS.

This volume presents a systems approach to understanding and managing the AIDS crisis - an approach that addresses the needs not only of HIV- infected individuals, but also of families and communities at risk from AIDS.

Personality, psychopathology and emotional factors are intimately related to smoking, yet there are few efforts to integrate relevant findings in these areas.

Personality, psychopathology and emotional factors are intimately related to smoking, yet there are few efforts to integrate relevant findings in these areas.

This book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversity.

In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and improve services for Latinos with substance abuse problems by understanding that the cultures and personal backgrounds of your clients are crucial to the counseling process.

Catch up with current theories on a major public health menace!

This book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversity.

This scholarly book enables health care professionals to appropriately address hospice patients'and families'concerns about nutrition and hydration.

First published in 1998.

First published in 1998.

Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities and Impacts, Second Edition explores the inextricably interconnected and complex relationship between oceans and humans.

This insightful volume describes a sample of prevention demonstration projects of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).

Develop a positive working relationship between researchers and community groups focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention, and discover how to evaluate HIV/AIDS programs!

Here is an invaluable resource to help professionals understand the broad range of issues and challenges that adolescents face as they grapple with their sexuality.

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons.

As the Baby Boomer cohort moves from middle to later adulthood, it is likely this generation will redefine what it means to age.

Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide.

Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide.

Estimating the risk for suicidal behavior among patients is often a very complex challenge for psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychologists, surgeons, specialists in internal medicine, neurologists, nurses, and social workers.

Estimating the risk for suicidal behavior among patients is often a very complex challenge for psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychologists, surgeons, specialists in internal medicine, neurologists, nurses, and social workers.

This major work summarizes the recent research and findings on the interactions of pets and their owners and the social and emotional benefits that may be derived by families who have pets.

This major work summarizes the recent research and findings on the interactions of pets and their owners and the social and emotional benefits that may be derived by families who have pets.

Here is an essential volume for educators, social workers, health care professionals, and parents who are frustrated by the consuming power of drugs over the lives of young people and looking for answers to this enormous problem.

The loss of a family member, significant other, or friend exposes the afflicted person to a higher risk for several types of psychiatric disorders.

Globalisation is influencing not only patterns of health and disease worldwide, but how decisions on health are made and organised.

Globalisation is influencing not only patterns of health and disease worldwide, but how decisions on health are made and organised.

Religious institutions shaped the ways individuals, communities and societies responded to HIV and AIDS since the 1980s.

Religious institutions shaped the ways individuals, communities and societies responded to HIV and AIDS since the 1980s.

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question.

The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "e;scale-up"e;) and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe.

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target 'unsafe', 'unhealthy' and/or 'risky' behaviours.

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target 'unsafe', 'unhealthy' and/or 'risky' behaviours.