Personal and public health / health education

This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.

This book is devoted to the issue of how we can learn to live together in the face of division and conflict.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

Nutrition is an important environmental factor for the maturation of the human immune system and essential for maintaining immunological homeostasis.

This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing healthcare system.

This authoritative handbook provides an up-to-date, interdisciplinary understanding of behavioral health issues and their management within disability systems.

This volume focuses explicitly on close relationships as a reliable source for individual happiness and well-being across cultures.

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

This intriguing volume presents the most contemporary views on the conceptualization and treatment of somatoform disorders and related conditions from experts in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the science and application of the Exposome through seventeen chapters from leaders in the field.

This expansive text offers a comprehensive mind/body/spirit framework for relieving individual patients of the debilitating effects of long-term disease while reducing the public burden of chronic illness.

This book describes a sleep disorder belonging to the category of parasomnias (i.

This unique trainer's resource offers a comprehensive blueprint for preparing clinicians for practice in the changing and challenging environment of integrated care.

This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health.

This volume addresses the convincing belief that hope is an existential need and resource for living a good life, not only when all is going well, but especially in difficult times.

This groundbreaking analysis moves our knowledge of pain and its effects from the biomedical model to one accounting for its complex psychosocial dimensions.

This book illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and particularly its impact on health and elderly care, as well as on the mechanisms of aging.

This reference work provides comprehensive information about the bioactive molecules presented in our daily food and their effect on the physical and mental state of our body.

This Brief discusses potential alternative sources for feeds in aquaculture fish diet, and explains that the future of aquaculture's development is dependent on the costs of fishmeal and fish oil.

This book is the second volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

This book is the first volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families.

This book focuses on what makes people happy.

Food Security Governance in the Arctic-Barents Region provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the major food security and safety challenges faced in the Arctic region.

This volume analyses the relevance of daily travel in the quality of life of individuals.

This book analyses the current state-of-the-art research on families, working hours and well-being in Europe, addressing both paid and non-paid work from a family perspective, and introducing emerging issues related to working hours and family life.

This Brief provides an overview of different analytical methods and techniques for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of Maillard Reactions and their reaction products in foods during processing and storage.

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life.

Now in its revised and updated second edition, this text provides a practical way of teaching genetic counseling helping skills.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This unique book is intended for all health professionals caring for older people with diabetes such as specialist and general nurses, doctors, primary care practioners and dieteticians.

This multidisciplinary reference explores the concepts and realities of quality of life among cancer survivors in its physical, psychological, cognitive, social, and familial dimensions.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

Licorice (Glycyrrhiza) is one of the most widely used in foods, herbal medicine and one of the extensively researched medicinal plants of the world.

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment.

This Brief describes the chemical features of canned food products and gives background information on the technology of canning foods.

Ascorbic acid (AsA), vitamin C, is one of the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants and animals.

This text provides an important overview of the contributions of edible insects to ecological sustainability, livelihoods, nutrition and health, food culture and food systems around the world.

This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death.

How can you make the most of retirement?

While the skeletal effects of vitamin D are well-documented, the role and importance of vitamin D outside of bone health has not been well-established.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.

This handbook provides key information on the clinical use of nutraceuticals, an increasingly common practice grounded in an understanding of the pharmacological activities of natural compounds and clinical evidence of efficacy and safety.

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.