Personal and public health / health education

This book brings together state-of-the-art research on successful aging in Asian populations and highlights how the factors that contribute to successful aging differ from those in the West.

The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health.

Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners' "e;confessions"e; on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume.

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women.

This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges.

Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete.

This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children.

This book is based on the assumption that "e;organic has lost its way"e;.

This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life.

Schools are unique places.

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied.

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children's rights into capabilities in settings as different as children's parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care.

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology.

This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity.

This volume describes a culture-fair perspective on positive psychology research and practice in Latin America.

A role for vitamin A in living organisms has been known throughout human history.

The book takes a holistic approach to sustainability.

Violence is one of the most important challenges, not only for public health systems, but also for public mental health.

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.