Category Archives: Preventive

Cottone’s Practical Infection Control in Dentistry

Now in its Third Edition, this book is a primary, comprehensive infection control text for students in the dental professions. Using the latest scientific and clinical evidence and current infection control guidelines, the book presents easy-to-follow protocols as components of … Continue reading

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Detection, Assessment, Diagnosis and Monitoring of Caries (Monographs in Oral Science)

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Improving Oral Health for the Elderly: An Interdisciplinary Approach

This excellent new work confronts two important oral health policy concerns in the United States: the disparities in the oral disease burden and the inability of certain segments of the population to access oral health care. The book examines in … Continue reading

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Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence-Based HIV, STI, and Pregnancy Prevention Interventions

Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health is a directory of the most promising and proven effective sexual education and prevention programs in the United States. The programs included in this volume were selected for their demonstrated positive impact on STI, … Continue reading

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Emergency Management and Tactical Response Operations: Bridging the Gap (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security)

Is emergency management education undoing an age-old tradition in the American Fire Service? Has the time arrived to educate emergency managers in college classrooms rather than in twenty years of tactical operations experience? Over one hundred forty-three (143) institutions of … Continue reading

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Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health (Springer Reference)

People are living longer, and the elder population is growing larger. To meet the ongoing need for quality information on elder health, the Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health combines multiple perspectives to offer readers a more accurate and complete … Continue reading

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Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities

Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that … Continue reading

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Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life

Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual’s psycho-physical balance. In particular, it has been demonstrated that prolonged regular physical activity (now defined in scientific publications as chronic physical activity) … Continue reading

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An Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System

“Dr. Jonas has been a voice in the wilderness preaching sense about both health and health services for years. He clearly identifies the problems and issues facing the system and its beneficiaries, based upon the evidence he has carefully marshaled … Continue reading

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Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations: A Systematic Literature Review (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented. This is an academic text, originally commissioned by the Department of Health from University College London and University of Surrey, using … Continue reading

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