Personal and public health / health education

This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative.

This book presents evidence that children are the real experts of their lives.

This timely and important collection broadens our understanding of the ways in which lay theories (also known as folk psychologies, implicit theories, naive theories, or mindsets) impact our lives and social relations.

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.

This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of nutrition in different scenarios of maternal diabetes, including the Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic mother, gestational diabetes, and postpartum diabetes.

Food and agricultural by-products are leftovers or wastes from parts of foods, fruits, vegetables and animal sources which are obtained after processing.

In this book, both basic and advanced concepts are discussed for considering mixtures from initial exposure characterization through evaluation of risk associated with combined exposures.

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

This book discusses child well-being, with children and adolescents as key informants, from a Latin American perspective.

This multivolume reference work addresses the fact that the well being of humankind is predicated not only on individuals receiving adequate nutrition but also on their genetic makeup.

This volume addresses new innovations in quality of life and well-being from the perspectives of the individual, society and community.

This book addresses the causes and effects of nutrient deficiencies along the cell-to-communities continuum.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book provides an overview to researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as academicians who are interested in arsenic.

This Brief presents a chemical perspective on frozen vegetables, also known as "e;ready-to-use"e; foods.

The book is a study of intra-urban inequality in quality of life (QOL) in Aizawl city.

This study by the University of Basque Country Gluten Analysis Laboratory analyzes the gluten free diet from different perspectives.

This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings.

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants.

This book offers focused and concise coverage of all issues relating to malnutrition in the field of neurology, and in particular addresses practical aspects of nutritional support from a neurology perspective.

This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame.

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

This book is an ideal introduction to work in psychology and the neurosciences.

This book presents an analysis of active ageing and physical activity from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest.

This book describes the latest advances in health education and patients' self-management, addressing core questions such as: How can you motivate a patient to adopt a healthier lifestyle, and how can you support their self-management?

This book combines urban planning and architectural tools in an attempt to overcome the limitations of sectoral measures.

This book provides a basic introduction to geriatric telepsychiatry, including potential benefits and drawbacks of utilizing this treatment modality.

This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering.

This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life.

Inflammation has invaded the field of psychiatry.

The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept.

This book sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos' work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value.

This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility.

This newest addition to the Nutrition and Health series is a comprehensive, yet portable, guide to the use of dietary fiber for the management of health and disease.

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

This book reflects the current thinking and research on how consumers' perception of product risks and benefits affects their behavior.

The first of its kind for budget-impact analysis, this comprehensive guide provides clear and concise instructions for evaluating the impact that new pharmaceuticals will have on the budget for a specific jurisdiction.

This second edition volume is a desktop reference guide on nutrition and its clinical implications for health and disease.

Written by leading international experts, this book discusses the latest advances in the field of dementia in nursing homes.

This book identifies a gap in peacebuilding theory and practice in terms of sensitivity to trauma and its impact on the survivors of war and other mass violence.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.

This practice-building resource examines the psychology behind non-adherence and the importance of building commitment to treatment as the foundation of successful therapy.