Personal and public health / health education

The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds.

The book is the first one published exclusively on the field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer.

Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics.

Within the context of an ageing Asia, the growing numbers of grandparents and the important roles they play within the family propel the need for a book devoted to their experiences.

Quality of life (QOL) research in tourism has gained much momentum over the last two decades.

Security, or the perceived lack thereof, impacts on quality of life at many levels.

This book addresses questions of relevance to governments and industry in many countries around the world, in particular concerning the link between contaminated-land-management programs and the protection of drinking water resources and the potential effects of climate changes on the availability of these same resources.

Globally, postnatal depression (PND) is a growing public health problem.

This book brings together the latest research on positive psychology from an international cast of researchers and particularly from the growing body of European researchers.

Relationships are at the heart of our lives; at home with our families, with our friends, in schools and colleges, with colleagues at the workplace and in our diverse communities.

Since the industrialization and urbanization of the Western workforce, tanned skin has been perceived increasingly as attractive and fashionable for naturally light-skinned individuals.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.

Issues In Agroecology - Present Status and Future Prospectus not only reviews aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values.

The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains.

In recent years, the concept of environmental security has been adapted to include preparedness for acts of ecoterrorism.

The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research.

This book explores important current social justice issues that confront young children in America.

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US.

The proposed book is a sequel to volume 1-4 of Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases.

Every day many people suffer from intestinal diseases.

This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases.

This book's main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the environment, through first principles of meteorology and modelling/measurement approaches.

Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways.

In order to bridge the lack of information on child labour and to stimulate policy interventions the IREWOC Foundation (International Research on Working Children) has undertaken action-based research in the field of the worst forms of child labour in Latin America.

Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity.

This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust.

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing.

What is the big deal about cannabis?

The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years.

Colored cereals are becoming a substance of research interest due to their unique color and health-benefiting properties.

"e;I wish I had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive,"e; says David Cohen.

In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water.

This book is dedicated to present different aspects of reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology of commercially important as well as potential aquaculture fish species.

This book compiles the latest research on the A1 and A2 forms of cow milk, and attempts to show a correlation between the type of cow milk consumption and reported incidence of certain diseases (type 1 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, sudden infant death syndrome and neurological disorders).

This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India.

The book is designed to help the reader gain a better understanding of the selected aspects of health and food.

This report analyzes the complexities of health financing in Papua New Guinea with a focus on resource allocation, use, and accountability.

Article 6 is a key part of the Paris Agreement.

Good water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services protect health and the environment.

The water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector plays a key role in enabling a healthier population in the Pacific and in building countries' resilience to public health emergencies such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

In the 30 years since the inception of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saude, or SUS), Brazil has reduced health inequalities, and improved coverage and access to health care.

This second edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care resources and utilisation, health care expenditure and financing and health care quality across 27 Asia/Pacific countries and economies.

Over the past few years, Canada and the United States have been experiencing an opioid crisis as a result of problematic opioid use fueled by the emergence of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil.

Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies.