Personal and public health / health education

The Kellogg Company ranks among the world's leading food manufacturers, and it follows, therefore, that our corporate policies are important to human health.

Generation of oxidants or reactive oxygen species is a natural process of human biology.

As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react?

The International Society for Quality of Life Studies held its first conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.

Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development.

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven- tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies.

This book offers an insightful exploration into the relationship between diet and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), aiming to address a crucial question: Can dietary interventions serve as effective preventative and therapeutic measures for patients with MS?

Nitrogen is the most limiting element for crop production.

Iron is a key element in nutrition.

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies.

Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment.

This book is concerned with the universality of wellbeing indicators.

This book is concerned with the question of inequality - which points to a major structural problem in intra-national and inter-national respect.

Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing.

Workers' compensation data in a large public sector human service agency clearly indicated that the most significant type ofcompensable incident that occurred within the organisation was that ofanxiety and stress related conditions.

A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe.

Cereals belong to the most important elements in the history of mankind.

Water is recognized as being an important factor in numerous pheno- mena connected with the quality of food.

South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy has gained it world recognition.

Legumes are an important source of protein for humans and animals.

Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western World and increasingly elsewhere.

This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health.

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years.

This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan.

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress.

This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research.

This volume integrates and makes sense of the growing body of theoretical and empirical research conducted on purpose across the lifespan.

Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values.

This volume provides an overview of the research describing the effects of child maltreatment on mental health, cognitive and social-emotional development.

This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia.

This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world.

This book deals with street children who live in the developing world, and homeless youth who are from the developed world.

Homeostasis.

This book provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to why gratitude is important to living well.

This volume examines contemporary Thailand.

This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment.

This briefs reviews the literature on alexithymia with a particular focus on the relation between positive well-being and alexithymia.

Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the ecosystems and the populations existing within the region.

The book addresses the questions: Is Australia's rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts?

This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective.

The book Dhaka Megacity: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health presents the use of geospatial techniques to address a number of environmental issues, including land use change, climatic variability, urban sprawl, population density modelling, flooding, environmental health, water quality, energy resources, urban growth modelling, infectious diseases and the quality of life.

In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas.

This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics.

Concepts like Health and Well-being are not exclusive products of the Western culture.

In recent decades radiobiologists' efforts have been directed at identifying the mechanisms of radiation effects; the general mechanisms have since been studied extensively.

This book tests the critical potential of happiness research to evaluate contemporary high-performance societies.

This book is the sixth in a series covering bet practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators.

This book is a contribution to the understanding of psychosomatic health problems.

This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences.