Personal and public health / health education

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.

New and current approaches to organizational health intervention research are the main focus of this comprehensive volume.

This book presents recent positive psychological research, applications and interventions being used among adolescents and children.

This is the first book to bring together examples of research in positive psychology / psychofortology conducted in the multi-cultural South African context with its diverse populations and settings.

Up until now, many articles have been written to portray stigma and discrimination which occur with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in many parts of the world.

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

This book is based on the premise that marketing is central to understanding and advancing companies, businesses, countries, major economic areas and every-day problems.

This specially selected collection of landmark work from the Journal of Happiness Studies maps the current contours, and the likely future direction, of research in a field with a fast-rising profile.

This volume is a unique contribution to the exploration of a new perspective in the study of well-being, which tries to overcome the quantification bias by creating an account of 'the good life' in a specific place.

There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence.

Contemporary worklife builds upon a foundation for teamwork among skilled and dedicated people.

Time has become an increasingly important topic in urban studies and urban planning.

Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles.

This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS.

In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees.

These are turbulent times in which it becomes increasingly important to survive and thrive despite stressful circumstances.

This book provides a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also the presence of subjective well-being.

The EuroQol Group first met in Rotterdam in May 1987 determined to develop a standardised non-disease-specific instrument for valuing health-related quality of life.

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.

The probability for exposure to damaging radiation, toxic chemicals in the environment and adverse biological agents has increased exponentially today.

This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields.

The construct 'quality of life (QoL)', since the 1980s, when it was introduced, is being used mainly in the context of health problems.

This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship.

This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these phenomena.

This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein.

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model.

This anthology focuses on empirical studies comparing cultures in relation to central positive psychological topics.

The second edition will be an update and further elaboration of the literature related to subjective well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction.

The brief presents a model for happiness based on current knowledge in evolutionary biology and neurobiology.

This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans.

In the international literature there is a broad scope for comparative research on the welfare regime, family change and gender relations, but we have no book that comprehensively collects the main research that has been conducted from the perspective of family well-being.