Personal and public health / health education

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.

This book is about Nutraceuticals in cancer therapy, specifically targeted and Adjuvant therapy.

This book about the Mekong Delta presents a unique collection of state-of-the-art contributions by international experts from different scientific disciplines about the characteristics and pressing water-related challenges of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

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This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest.

The study of quality of life refers to the material environment (social welfare) and psychosocial environment (wellbeing).

Currently, families are being subjected to increasing public attention.

Chemoprevention of cancer has been the focus of intensive research for more than two decades.

This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework.

In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation.

Different cultures experience happiness differently.

The book series, "e;Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy.

In 1998, the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) provided Kenneth Land a grant to explore the feasibility of producing the first national composite index of the status of American children that would chart changes in their well-being over time.

The rapid social change in the East Asia has brought great research attention on the family, education and political impacts.

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on changes in biological communities.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

Reproductive medicine is a growing field with new technology emerging faster than we can assess consumer's perceptions of -the number of cancer survivors are growing and there is a great need to attend to their quality of life-this book addresses the needs of males and females, identifies effective communication strategies and proactive measures for health care professionals and researchers to use as well as identifying gaps in the literature where more research is needed.

Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems.

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.

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.