Personal and public health / health education

The past several decades of rapid organizational change and global economic activity beseech a fresh understanding of work conditions and mental health across all nations and regions.

This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions.

This book is about links between music and health.

This book presents a review of Deleuze's key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness.

The book summarizes the latest research and developments in dairy biotechnology and engineering.

This book discusses the impact and effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on quality of working life of employees.

Volume 8 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible flowers from Geraniaceae to Zingiberaceae (tabular) and 82 species in Geraniaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Oleaceae, Onagraceae, Orchidaceae, Paeoniaceae, Papaveraceae, Plantaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Primulaceae, Proteaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, Theaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Tyhpaceae, Violaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Zingiberaceae in detail.

This volume deals with strategies aimed at increasing psychological well-being in both clinical and non-clinical settings, with a special focus on the impact of cross-cultural influences on these processes.

The volume will be a collection of chapters about current theory, research, and practice related to multiculturalism and positive psychology.

This atlas shows the relationship between water pollution and cancer in the Huai River Basin in China over the last 30 years.

This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project.

This volume summarizes and organizes a growing body of research supporting the role of motivation in adaptive and rewarding interpersonal interactions with others.

This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion.

This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships.

This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous.

This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness.

In the era of current industrial and civil development, everyone is expressing a deep concern about the problem of environmental pollution.

Chapters in this book review the remarkable advances in the field of zinc biology over the last decade.

Today, any regular newspaper reader is likely to be exposed to reports on manifold forms of (physical, emotional, sexual) child abuse on the one hand, and abnormal behavior, misconduct or offences of children and minors on the other hand.

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Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.

Our series Cancer Prevention - Cancer Control continues to address the causes and prevention of cancer.

Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C.

Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine.

This is the first volume ever published to examine the objective and subjective qualities of Korean life from both comparative and dynamic perspectives.

EQ-5D from the EuroQol Group is a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health.

The knowledge base in the domains of quality of life, well-being, and subjective well-being is continuing to grow at a rapid rate.

For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health.

The purpose of this book is to make an effort to bring together a body of research on the subjective aspects of quality of life ("e;subjective well being"e;, "e;happiness"e;, "e;life satisfaction"e;, "e;perceived quality of life"e;) by starting out with Wilson's (1968) theory of avowed happiness.

Based on large research material collected in Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria Social change, Gender and Violence is the book which explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and men, as well as the way how everyday life and gender related changes affect women's vulnerability to domestic violence and trafficking in women.

This handbook provides students of quality-of-life (QOL) research with an understanding of how QOL research can be conducted from an ethical marketing perspective - a perspective based on positive social change.

Algae are important organisms that include seaweeds and a number of single-celled and multicellular microscopic forms.

Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con- flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts.

Herpesviruses, classified in the family Herpesviridae, are important human and animal pathogens that can cause primary, latent or recurrent infections and even cancer.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

Parents and ancestors are always important: they endow us with a genetic inheritance for better or for worse, for the balanced diet, for overfeeding or for starvation.

Throughout the history of mankind from primitive man to the present time, vitamin ddiciencies have been a major cause of death and disease.

Obesity in affluent countries continues to be a serious problem.

This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists.

Parenteral nutrition has been one of the most significant therapeutic advances of the past twenty years.

The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900.

This new fourth edition of the Nutrition and Diet Therapy Reference Dictionary covers all aspects of nutrition, including assessment of drug-nutrient interactions, laboratory interpretations, enteral and parenteral nutrition support, community and public health nutrition programs, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and such topics as nutrition and the immune system, nutrition labeling, chemical dependency, AIDS, and organ transplantation.

All forms of life require food materials in certain minimum amounts to insure an active life and successful reproduction.

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When we learn from a patient, clinician, or medical record that a drug has been discontinued, it is logical to ask why.

The advent of any new and effective therapy is soon followed by large numbers of publications in which the indications and benefits are explored critically.

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This new volume deals with a number of important and current topics in human nutrition that we hope will be of general interest to those concerned with this subject.