Public Health

Our collection of 29 books.

Strategies to Reduce Hospital Mortality in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and Resource-Limited Settings

Edited by Jasneth Mullings, Camille-Ann Thoms-Rodriguez, Affette M. McCaw-Binns and Tomlin Paul
ISBN 978-1-83962-225-0, Print ISBN 978-1-83880-933-1,
Edited Volume
88 pages, September, 2019

This book examines experiences in resource-limited settings, including Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and covers a mix of strategies to reduce hospital mortality in these settings. These include population-level and clinical interventions s ...
Body-mass Index and Health

Edited by Ayşe Emel Önal
ISBN 978-1-78985-006-2, Print ISBN 978-1-78985-005-5,
Edited Volume
110 pages, February, 2019

The body mass index has an important place in weight control. Attention should be paid to the regularization of anthropometric measures and to physical activity to protect from increasing obesity that is associated with chronic noncommunicable condit ...
Current Issues in Global Health

Edited by David Claborn
ISBN 978-1-78984-511-2, Print ISBN 978-1-78984-510-5,
Edited Volume
110 pages, November, 2018

Current Issues in Global Health provides a forum for a broad discussion of health issues, from systemic violence to infectious disease in places as far apart as Kashmir and South America. The authors come from a variety of environments including mili ...
Public Health - Emerging and Re-emerging Issues

Edited by Md. Anwarul Azim Majumder, Russell Kabir and Sayeeda Rahman
ISBN 978-1-78984-150-3, Print ISBN 978-1-78984-149-7,
Edited Volume
184 pages, October, 2018

The main aim of modern public health is to improve the quality of life and promote health for all. Public health deals with a wide range of individuals and collaborates with various organizations, departments, and agencies to improve health, forestal ...
Highlights on Several Underestimated Topics in Palliative Care

Edited by Marco Cascella
ISBN 978-953-51-3566-1, Print ISBN 978-953-51-3565-4,
Edited Volume
156 pages, October, 2017

This book focuses on several underestimated topics in palliative care. Seven chapters have been divided into four sections: Ethical Issues, Volunteers in Palliative Care, Special Circumstances, and Prognostic Models in Palliative Care. The underestim ...
Dengue - Immunopathology and Control Strategies

Edited by Márcia Aparecida Sperança
ISBN 978-953-51-3436-7, Print ISBN 978-953-51-3435-0,
Edited Volume
152 pages, July, 2017

This edited book Dengue - Immunopathology and Control Strategies contains eight chapters divided in three sections that underline important aspects of dengue virus, the most prevalent and life-threatening arbovirus in the world, including virus repli ...
Adiposity - Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities

Edited by Jan Oxholm Gordeladze
ISBN 978-953-51-2996-7, Print ISBN 978-953-51-2995-0,
Edited Volume
252 pages, March, 2017

This book is the first in a series of two, featuring the Adiposity - Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities, serving as a summary of the traditional views on how the organ systems are affected when higher organs start to suffer from enhanced body weig ...
The Epidemiology and Ecology of Leishmaniasis

Edited by David Claborn
ISBN 978-953-51-2972-1, Print ISBN 978-953-51-2971-4,
Edited Volume
176 pages, March, 2017

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne, parasitic disease with tremendous variety in presentation, biology, and epidemiology. Any book on this disease must acknowledge the nearly impossible task of providing an exhaustive account of leishmaniasis simply bec ...