This important volume is designed to help medical educators working in today’s changing and challenging circumstances by giving an overview of best practices and research in medical education around the world.
Making sense of the new wave of medical humanities in medical education scholarship that calls for a ‘critical medical humanities’, this book incorpor..
Ageing is often thought of as a process that relates to problems, deficits, and taboos, and less to pleasure, change, growth and diversity. It is trea..
Active ageing both as a concept and policy response to the demographic ageing of populations has been widely debated, researched and utilised, informi..
This book will present a holistic approach to conducting public health research using big data. The research process is sequential, yet different stak..
Rapid changes in healthcare and public health offer tremendous opportunities to focus on process improvement. Public Health departments/agencies are i..
This book provides a concise overview of statistical analysis methods for the clinical and public health practitioner. It teaches statistical models w..
Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS recognises the complex relationships between individual circumstances, different forms of migration and the different way..
This book examines the evidence-base for incorporating mental health into the public health agenda by linking the research on population-based mental ..
Amid intense debate over the consequences of decoding the human genome and the impact of such technology on our lives, these lucid, richly-textured, j..
This practical and accessible book maps out the range of exciting and varied options open to people considering a career in public health, and provide..
This text outlines key public health principles and the social model of health. A selection of case studies then look at how a piece of public health ..
This text comprises a series of introductory essays exploring key themes and concepts in public health. The themes discussed include: determinants of ..