Personal and public health / health education

This book addresses the psychosocial and medical issues of forced migration due to war, major disasters and political as well as climate changes.

This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations.

This practice-enhancing volume assembles the latest innovative thinking on working with clients who have both mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR).

This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food.

This book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported with practical examples from international research studies.

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

This book presents a multidimensional approach by providing a state of the art on EIS ecosystems, as well as structural and changing dynamics and its impact on citizens' quality of life.

This book looks back at the starting point of engineering to show the importance of motivation in dealing with the passive-to-active consumer change, and explains how engineering can be holistic.

This timely volume provides the practitioner with evidence based treatments for many of the clinical problems encountered in integrated care.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies.

This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM).

This book discusses how effective navigation requires a team approach to oncology care and should never be considered an "e;add-on"e; resource or service.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

This book presents a new paradigm for distinguishing psychotic and mystical religious experiences.

This book offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment.

This book serves as an introduction to the Nordic approach to Occupational Health Psychology and illustrates how this perspective can be transferred to a global audience.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.

This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants.

This book explores the memory and representation of genocide as they affect individuals, communities and families, and artistic representations.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

This expert compendium surveys the current state of military psychology across the branches of service at the clinical, research, consulting, and organizational levels.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

This book focuses on the social and intersectional determinants of mental health among youth.

This book presents the results of the Canadian Holistic Health in Children project.

This unique volume advances the literature on sleep and health by illuminating the impacts of family dynamics on individuals' quality and quantity of sleep.

This graduate textbook imparts the fundamentals of reliability and risk that can be connected mathematically and applied to problems in engineering and medical science and practice.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

This book examines in detail the clinical implications of those diseases that either are primarily triggered by air pollution or represent direct consequences of air pollutants.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied.

This salient reference grounds readers in the theoretical basis and day-to-day practice of community-based health care programs, and their potential as a transformative force in public health.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.

This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions.

This volume focuses on blocking disease transmission and the ecological perspective of pathogens and pathogenic processes.

This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators.

This volume offers the most comprehensive coverage on fetal programming.

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress.

Skin diseases are highly prevalent among indigenous people, leading to low mortality but greatly impacting their quality of life.

This text provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the effects of dietary patterns and whole plant foods on general health, aging, and cardiometabolic disease risk from major prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and their meta-analyses.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

This international survey defines mental health as a basic human right, and tracks the emergence of mental health prevention and promotion as a global priority.

This book provides a broad-based foundation of knowledge about brown rice, including the latest information on health benefits and disease prevention resulting from consumption of brown rice, and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards brown rice.

This edited volume focuses on different views of happiness and well-being, considering constructs like meaning and spirituality in addition to the more standard constructs of positive emotion and life satisfaction.