Personal and public health / health education

Focusing on two central themes--the psychobiological evolution from youth to adult and the effects of drugs on the developing central nervous system--this important reference elucidates the mechanisms of chemical dependency in adolescents.

This book presents Responsible Adult Culture (RAC), a truly comprehensive program for helping offenders to think and act responsibly.

This important book proposes revising the current informed consent protocol for predictive genetic testing to reflect the trend toward patient-centered medicine.

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This book explores the nature of pregnancy and metabolic syndrome as proinflammatory conditions and explains how pregnancy provides a window of opportunity for preventing the lifelong complications of metabolic syndrome, during which key risk factors can be identified and beneficial dietary changes can be implemented.

This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition.

Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis provides evidence based recommendations, established by a comprehensive, state of the art review of the available literature to help clinicians with nutritional counseling for dietary stone prevention.

Nutritional therapies have been key early interventions, and remain central to the well-being and survival of patients with cystic fibrosis.

The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea.

This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa's development post-2015.

This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's care responsibilities.

This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic Plain.

This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research.

This book proposes and investigates a universal framework, and accompanying documentation system, to facilitate and catalogue benefit-risk decisions; a valuable addition to the benefit-risk toolbox.

This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations.

This clinical manual argues for using neurotherapy to enhance mental health and medical practice across settings and specialties.

This book serves as a timely and comprehensive overview of the latest science for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), covering the development of methods for assessing PFASs in biological fluids and tissues as well as the current knowledge regarding their toxicity to vertebrate organisms.

Focusing on the challenges of the transition to responsible, sustainable lifestyles, this book examines developments over the last decade in relation to:- the creation of awareness of consumer citizenship, civic involvement and environmental stewardship - research, projects and publications on education for responsible living - the creation and implementation of relevant teaching methods and materials - policies on education for sustainable consumption and lifestyles- global processes for education on sustainable developmentThe articles deal with topics related to policy support, institutional approaches, educators, young people, and local communities.

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This book covers the scope of current knowledge of cancer in the LGBT community across the entire cancer continuum, from understanding risk and prevention strategies in LGBT groups, across issues of diagnosis and treatment of LGBT patients, to unique aspects of survivorship and death and dying in these communities.

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies.

This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope.

This book focuses on the three most important aspects of ageing research: nutrition, physical exercise and epigenetics.

The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution.

Das Monitoring ist ein gemeinsam von Bund und Ländern durchgeführtes Untersuchungsprogramm, das die amtliche Überwachung der Bundesländer ergänzt.

This up-to-date reference on the nutrition management of inherited metabolic diseases (IMD) covers a wide range of these disorders, including phenylketonuria and other aminoacidopathies, organic acidemias, urea cycle disorders, fatty acid oxidation disorders, galactosemia and glycogen storage diseases.

The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process.

"e;In this 2nd edition, Robinson and Reiter give us an updated blueprint for full integration of behavioral health and primary care in practice.

This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life.

This timely professional reference and educational resource applies current concepts of pediatric adherence to medical treatment to create a model for a family-centered, collaborative approach to managing chronic illness.

This book takes an in-depth look at the theory and methods inherent in the tracing of riverine sediments.

This Brief will provide an overview of various types of noodles with special emphasis on yellow alkaline noodles.

This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment.

This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing.

This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru.

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary issues within global society and how these relate to six case study examples (UK, USA, China, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Japan).

This Brief concerns the influence of chemistry in the modern food and beverages industry.

This updated resource refines and expands on both the core concepts and the real-world practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry in medical settings.

List of Substances of the Competent Federal Government and Federal State AuthoritiesPlants and plant preparations are an important part of a balanced diet.

Lipids and Skin Health is the first effort to summarize and review the studies, ideas, and research that link lipid metabolism to the largest organ of our body, the skin.

Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice.

This book addresses the psychological consequences of wounds and the psychological components of wound care, building on contemporary research evidence and presenting practical clinical guidelines.

Not long ago, it was assumed that coronary heart disease mainly--or only--affected men.

This book presents the state of the art in the application and implementation of the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the areas of vocational rehabilitation as a primary topic and disability evaluation as a secondary topic.

This Brief defines reliable correlations between the food packaging design and its chemical features in terms of an 'integrated food product' (the synergistic union composed of the edible content and its container).

This is an all-embracing reference that offers analyses and discussions of contemporary issues in the field of PTSD.