The authors of this book examine the effects of increasing population numbers and growing environmental degradation on the current and future disea...

Health Issues in Chinese Contexts Volume 2 is a collection of the health care professions' research studies and writings and a film scholar's analy...

Microbial food-borne illnesses have a great impact not only on public health but also represent high economic costs for many countries around the w...

Bacteriophage is a live micro-organism, a natural enemy of bacteria. Canadian microbiologist Felix d'Herelle proposed that bacteriophage might be a...

Concerns have been raised over recent decades about the backpack or school bag weight of children in countries world-wide. A strong association was...

So-called top-down technologies have enabled us to manufacture and fabricate structures even smaller than the micrometer scale. MEMS (Micro Electro...

Philosophy in Epidemiology & Public Health

This unique book was conceived to satisfy the rising need for epidemiology oriented clinicians. While there are many books separately devoted to ep...

This book is just what we needed to gather the knowledge accumulated on Usher syndrome throughout the past fifteen years. The epidemiology and path...

Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of Eur...