Public health and preventive medicine Books

This comprehensive volume explore the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.

Un examen approfondi du livre de Théodore Tronchin, intitulé "De Colica Pictonum", est entrepris par un médecin de Paris, Michel P. Bouvart. Cette analyse critique plonge dans les théories et les traitements de la colique de...

Le Traité Des Nerfs Et De Leurs Maladies..., authored by Samuel Auguste Tissot and Johann Ulrich Bilguer, is a significant historical text concerning the understanding and treatment of nervous disorders during the 18th century. Written in French,...

La Longévité Humaine Par La Médecine Dosimétrique explores the principles and applications of dosimetric medicine, presenting it as a method accessible to everyone. Authored by Adolphe Burggraeve, this historical work delves...

"Food Inspection and Analysis" by Albert E. Leach is a comprehensive guide intended for public analysts, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. Originally published in 1904, this book details the methods and techniques used to examine...

���� "I will explain how to empower your body to heal itself!"- Barbara O'NeillBegin your wellness journey with this book and the teachings of Barbara O'Neill, a pioneer in natural healing and followed by thousands."Self Healing and Natural Herbal...

Lifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for primary care clinicians seeking to incorporate Lifestyle Medicine (LM) principles into their practice.

This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health. It describes the destructive effects on health and health inequalities of neoliberal policies...

Copula additive distributional regression enables the joint modeling of multiple outcomes, an essential aspect of many real-world research problems. This book provides an accessible overview of this modeling approach, with a particular focus on its...

Understanding public health has never been more important. It is in the headlines as never before. Aimed at all interested individuals but particularly students and professionals in nursing, medicine, social work and public health, this book encourages...

The world's cities are choking on pollution from traffic and industry. With the health of over 1.6 billion people under threat, poor urban air quality is fast becoming one of them most pressing environmental problems of our times. Smog Alert examines the...

This groundbreaking book takes an evidence-based, critical look at the scientific disputes and the information provided to women by governments and cancer charities. It also explains why mammography screening is unlikely to be effective today. All health...

Mankind now faces even more challenging environment- and health-related problems than ever before. Readily available transportation systems facilitate the swift spread of diseases as large populations migrate from one part of the world to another...

More people die each year in hospital accidents than in car accidents. This is a much needed systematic analysis of current issues, challenges and outcomes surrounding safety in patient health care in Australia.

An insider's account of the Australian health system, and the economic, political and social dynamics which shape contemporary health policy.

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition focuses on the statistical aspects ofmedicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. This...

This book addresses how nutrition and diet can influence cognitive function. It presents information on dietary supplementation, dietary patterns and lifestyle choices for maximizing cognitive health across the lifespan. The book focuses on sensitivity...

Handbook of Survival Analysis presents modern techniques and research problems in lifetime data analysis. This area of statistics deals with time-to-event data that is complicated by censoring and the dynamic nature of events occurring in time.With...

Designed for nonstatisticians and statisticians new to the analysis of growth and development data, this book is an accessible and practical guide to a wide range of basic and advanced statistical methods that are useful for studying human growth and...

Updated and expanded, this new edition describes the diet, nutrition, and exercise needs as well as the biochemical, nutritional, and clinical assessment of adult athletes. One new chapter addresses hydration and fluid replacement. Another concerns...

This book features evidence from several disciplines exploring initiatives that have improved food environments and discusses the importance of achieving success in equitable and sustainable ways.

Dieses Buch fasst Ergebnisse einer umfangreichen Studie zusammen und beantwortet folgende Fragen:Was kann als belastende Situation erlebt werden?Was genau bedeutet „Stress" in diesem Zusammenhang?Und was sind hilfreiche Unterstützungsangebote?Was ist ein...

Dieses leicht zugängliche Buch bietet den interessierten Lesenden einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Merkmale hormoneller Erkrankungen, deren Diagnose und Behandlung. Von Gigantismus und Kleinwuchs bis hin zu polyzystischem...

A companion book for Epidemiology study design and data analysis 3rd edition. Aims to equip with sufficient knowledge to use R for practising epidemiology. Reworks the examples in epidemiology study design and data analysis using R, presenting the code...

"Report of the Army Medical Department, Great Britain, Volume 34" offers a detailed account of the medical services provided to the British Army. This historical document provides insights into the challenges and innovations in military medicine during...

Domestic to Interpersonal Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach is geared toward medicolegal teams looking to gain knowledge on the various facets of domestic, intimate partner, and interpersonal violence. The book contains thoughtful...

"After reading this book, most lay people will know as much or more about elevated blood pressure than their doctor does, and most physicians will be far better able to effectively treat their patients with hypertension. I would recommend this book to my...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Asian cobras, covering their evolution, venom composition, geographic distribution, and the clinical effects of envenomation. It discusses treatment strategies and the public health impact of cobra...

Highlighting the understandings and impacts of epilepsy in resource limited settings, particularly those in the Global South, this important book provides a thorough examination of how the condition can be managed to promote better quality of life.

The Routledge Introduction to Canadian Literature and Illness considers the key literary and historical frameworks for reading stories about sickness.

This book introduces the ade4 package for R which provides multivariate methods for the analysis of ecological data. It is implemented around the mathematical concept of the duality diagram, and provides a unified framework for multivariate analysis...

Health Benefits of Fermented Foods and Beverages discusses the functionality and myriad health benefits of fermented foods and beverages of the world. It examines health-promoting and therapeutic properties, covering the molecular process of fermentation...

Adaptive clinical trial designs, unlike traditional fixed clinical trial designs, enable modification of studies in response to the data generated in the course of the trial. This often results in studies that are substantially faster, more efficient,...

It is the purpose of this book to try to offer a modern perspective on the importance of vitamins in human biology and medicine.

The Report on Smoking and Health published by the Royal College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection between lung -cancer and smoking

Addressing health inequalities is a key focus for health and social care organizations. This book explores how best frontline health workers in areas of deprivation can address these problems. Aimed at doctors and their wider multidisciplinary teams,...

Health-Promoting Food Ingredients in Food Processing presents a comprehensive science-based approach covering the latest naturally occurring bioactive compounds in seeds, dietary fiber, proteins, fermented bio-compounds, agro-industrial waste...

Fourth edition has new chapters on Bayesian survival analysis and use of the R software. Chapters extensively revised, expanded to add new material on topics that include methods for assessing predictive ability of a model, joint models for longitudinal...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...