Personal and public health / health education

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.

The prevalance of Diabetes has steadily increased in the last half century and is expected to continue spreading.

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.

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).

Long waiting times for health services is an important policy issue in most OECD countries.

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.

This sixth 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 quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories.

This report explores how data and digital technology can help achieve policy objectives and drive positive transformation in the health sector while managing new risks such as privacy, equity and implementation costs.

Long waiting times for health services is an important policy issue in most OECD countries.

Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries.

Twenty-first century health systems have to be built around data and information.

Health systems have to meet the changing needs of an increasingly assertive population and an ever more complex health policy context.

Almost one in four people in OECD countries is currently obese.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred perhaps the largest expansion of social protection systems in seventy years.

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.

This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of long-term care (LTC) workers, the tasks they perform and the policies to address shortages in OECD countries.

Latvia sees high rates of obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption.

This report explores how data and digital technology can help achieve policy objectives and drive positive transformation in the health sector while managing new risks such as privacy, equity and implementation costs.

Mental ill-health affects millions of people, and drives economic costs of more than 4% of GDP.

Primary health care in Brazil is well-organised, the result of sustained commitment to providing high quality primary health care for the whole population.

The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe focuses on the impact of the COVID 19 crisis.

A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.

Almost one in four people in OECD countries is currently obese.

This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive cross-country assessment of long-term care (LTC) workers, the tasks they perform and the policies to address shortages in OECD countries.

Health at a Glance compares key indicators for population health and health system performance across OECD members, candidate and partner countries.

This sixth 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 quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories.

This review assesses Japan's public health system, highlights areas of strength and weakness, and makes a number of recommendations for improvement.

This report reviews the important role of medicines in health systems, describes recent trends in pharmaceutical expenditure and financing, and summarises the approaches used by OECD countries to determine coverage and pricing.