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 ...