Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services t...

This book identifies over 5,500 HPSAs designated throughout the United States as of September 2005; multiple federal programs relied on these desig...

The World Health Organization defines health promotion "as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve, their health". I...

Singing is a great vehicle for communal activity, but it has disappeared as a part of adulthood in many communities. Children still sing in kinderg...

In 2008, Congress banned the use in children's toys and child care articles of several chemicals known to disrupt normal development and reproducti...

With a rapid technological change and an increasing number of health technologies emerging in contrast to scarcity of the resources, the decision-m...

In public health and in medicine, the concept of health-related quality of life refers to a person or group's perceived physical and mental health ...

Health care seeks to diagnose, treat, and improve the physical and mental well-being of all Americans. Across the lifespan, health care helps peopl...

Healthy Food: Perspectives, Availability and Consumption first explores the pathological form of healthy eating, orthorexia nervosa. Although ortho...

Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Eating opens with a study wherein a review is conducted to examine non-Hispanic blacks' dietary patterns to determin...

Heat stress can be defined as build-up of body heat generated either internally by muscle use or externally by the environment. Heat stress induces...

Heavy metals are persistent in the environment and their elevated emission during longer periods of time can cause contamination of the environment...

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) is an established treatment for a variety of malignant and nonmalignant conditions. In autologous HS...

Hepatitis B is a disease of the liver caused by the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a member of the Hepadnavirus family and one of several unrelated viral...

A hernia is the protrusion of an organ or the fascia of an organ through the wall of the cavity that normally contains it. A hiatal hernia occurs w...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), defined in the medical literature as a disruption in brain function that is caused by a head injury, has become known...

Since 1975, a growing number of states have implemented high risk pools (HRPs), which offer non-profit health insurance to individuals who are unab...

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an increasingly popular physical tool with a wide range of applications in medicine. One of the drivers...

60 years of the UK's National Health Service and the NHS is treating more people than ever and the population is living longer, healthier lives. Th...

In April 2010, Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) organised a forum to share experiences on implementing interven...

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of cancer. Topics discussed include the role of dendritic cells in the priming of ...

This compilation presents original study results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attem...

This compilation presents original study results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attem...

Nearly 20% of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and over who were admitted to a hospital in 2005 were readmitted within 30 days following their initia...

Hospital systems throughout the developed world are undergoing waves of reform which seek to address multiple challenges of intensifying acuity, su...

Securing a place in medical school can be competitive and daunting. This complex process starts from the GCSE level of education in a student’s lif...

Have you ever left the doctor's office feeling as if you had just gone through a revolving door? Now more than ever, each of us has to take control...

Book & DVD. This book provides an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals by the use of biomonitor...

Book & DVD. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals of their metabolites in such human specim...

Research on nutrition has grown into one of the most challenging and innovative health-related scientific disciplines during the past decade. New a...

Human malnutrition is a serious health problem worldwide. Traditionally, malnutrition is referred to as under-nutrition. However, during the last t...

Virtually all cervical cancer cases are caused by human papilloma viruses (HPV), mainly HPV-16 and HPV-18. Furthermore, HPVs may cause other types ...

Interest in humour has grown in recent years, especially in relation to its clinical applications. Humour helps relax, improve relationships with o...

Hygiene: A Manual of Personal and Public Health written by Sir Arthur Newsholme in 1902, is a plain and straightforward account of its subject for ...

This book describes biofilms in the context of hygiene in food safety and hospital facilities, starting with bacterial adhesion as an initial step ...

Hypotheses are fundamental to all sciences, including medicine. They play a critical role in motivating the development of science, since interesti...

This book brings together opposing chapters that range in form from scientific discussions to personal narratives. The need to listen to, and respe...

Formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a natural process during oxidative metabolism. ROS play an important role not only in pathological pr...

The thrust-area of this book is the connection between imperial anxieties and tropical health situations along with intriguing psychological questi...

The Medicare program enables millions of beneficiaries to obtain health care services; however, lacks many of the essential elements of a high-qual...

The rising cost of health care represents the nation's single most important long-term fiscal challenge. This book explores whether increased trans...

Incisional hernia (IH) represents a postoperative abnormal orifice or weakness in the abdominal wall through which normally contained viscera protr...

India or the Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, in fact the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with...

On March 2010, President Obama signed into law a comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The...