In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice.
"La situación de inseguridad alimentaria es un problema mundial que afecta a diferentes comunidades en contextos de pobreza y vulnerabilidad y requiere de la acción de los gobiernos, instituciones y la academia para brindar soluciones que proporcionen el mejoramiento en los factores de bienestar desde la disponibilidad, la calidad, y el acceso a los alimentos.
"Las disciplinas creativas tienen entre otras características, aportar una mirada integral a las problemáticas complejas de las comunidades y brindar herramientas de comunicación efectivas y de alta recordación.
El libro desarrolla tópicos educativos de interés para afrontar las necesidades especiales del binomio madre-hijo, propone ejercicios que fortalecen la musculatura en preparación para el exigente trabajo de parto e ilustra prácticas estratégicas destinadas a mantener una musculatura pélvica tónica y sana.
Por mucho tiempo, la salud pública ha abordado la alimentación humana como un fenómeno simple y lineal en el cual los alimentos son comprendidos como causas directas de la enfermedad.
Este libro presenta saberes y practicas en alimentacion y nutricion aplicadas al ejercicio clinico, al trabajo comunitario y a la salud publica; aplicaciones que dialogan con conceptos y metodologias de las ciencias biomedicas.
Este modulo presenta de forma detallada las pautas para la elaboracion de una dieta balanceada tomando en cuenta las necesidades del organismo humano para sus diferentes edades.
"El pediatra actual debe conocer perfectamente bien los principios básicos de la alimentación infantil, no sólo en cuanto a la fisiología del organismos del niño, sino también con respecto a los nutrimentos que se le van a suministrar tanto en el estado de salud como en el de enfermedad.
La alimentación no es un tema fácil de abordar, sobre todo, cuando desde los medios de comunicación y las redes sociales nos bombardean con tanta información.
¿Cuántas veces anhelaste tener el cuerpo de alguna celebridad, que trataste de hacer la dieta de alguna actriz o determinado modelo, pensando que así ibas a ser igual a ellos?
The Report of the Committee on Indigenous Systems of Medicine, Madras (1923), commissioned by the Madras government in 1921, was the first major health report to be published in India.
This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems.
To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being.
This book explores the concept of "e;occupation"e; in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts.
In this brief, the authors explore and review the current knowledge regarding the role of molybdenum in the evolution of biological systems and their interaction with biogeochemical cycles.
Based on action research and implementation at one of the world's great schools, this book provides a much-needed exploration of how to implement positive education at a whole school level.
The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which can support cost savings, cost recovery, and profits, in a sector that traditionally relies on public funding.
This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989.
This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning.
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 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.
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.
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.
