Personal and public health / health education

Landraces possess a very large genetic base in population structure and are dynamic populations of cultivated plants with historical origin, distinct identity, and without any formal crop improvement.

This book is the result of thousands of encounters with tube-fed infants and their families over the past four decades.

This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.

This book provides an in-depth and complete guide explaining how to incorporate the strategic dialogue and strategic communication methods into the debriefing after the scenario, characteristics that make it unique.

Historically researchers of neuroscience and psychology have believed that the cerebral cortex produces the unique mental capacities of human beings.

This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

This edited volume provides new perspectives on how shame is experienced and transformed within digital worlds and Industry 4.

This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools.

Cancer is the leading cause of death in the United States.

This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) also known as sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have been the focus of global attention.

This book aims to contribute to the transdisciplinary study of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in cities and to help policy makers adopt a more integrated approach to natural resources management in urban environments to face the challenges and threats of climate change.

In this book, the authors expertly examine the issue of adolescent well-being in the light of their exposure to and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at school and home.

This textbook is exceptional in its coverage of modern theories on the patient-centered approach to communication, preventive dentistry, and dental anxiety.

The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book presents the proceedings of the 10th Central European Congress on Food (CEFood), held on June 11-13, 2020, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book proposes new solutions to the problem of poverty, and begins with providing analyses.

This volume discusses climate change impacts on groundwater quality in arid and semi-arid regions, and provides human health risk assessments due to pollution of surface and groundwater.

This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and offers programmatic and policy recommendations to enhance well-being within long-term care communities.

Sensitive periods occur when unique experiences permanently influence brain development either by their presence or absence.

This textbook provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of stress, helping students and professionals understand the main neurobiological and psychological causes and consequences of stress in human beings.

This handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children's experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children's risk and vulnerability.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

This book discusses a wide range of health-related mining issues, with particular reference to occupational diseases, metal toxicity, postural injuries in miners, modern fire safety controls, noise-induced hearing loss prevention, and noise mapping.

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

Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death.

This book details how the water quality of the Blesbokspruit River in Gauteng, South Africa was socially constructed by stakeholders and key individuals in the context of acid mine drainage (AMD) and its treatment.

This volume explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health, safety, and socioeconomic well-being of community residents of selected countries around the world.

This book has been developed to provide a detailed discussion of probiotics, which have been evaluated for use predominantly in fish and shellfish aquaculture.

This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing for studying human behavior and planning innovative e-healthcare interventions.

The book explores, through a reflection on food, the complexity of the concept of well-being.

In recent years, "e;clean label"e; has become a trendy term in the food industry, spurring innovations in food product development.

This book provides students and researchers with a resource that includes the current application of the multi-criteria decision theory in a variety of fields, including the environment, health care, engineering, and architecture.

 With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies.

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm.

This book discusses problems, challenges, and mitigation strategies in the wake of environmental degradation.

This book provides an interdisciplinary structure to critique existing approaches that have failed to eradicate systemic inequalities across helping professions.

This volume provides a collection of research findings on the distribution and risk associated with emerging contaminants (ECs) in water and wastewater across the globe, and effective remediation techniques and technologies.

This book serves as a definitive nutritional reference for medical practitioners who care for patients with digestive diseases.

The SCIP manual will introduce a new assessment tool designed to be compatible with 21st century advances in measurement-base care (MBC) and personalized medicine in psychiatry (PMP).

This book covers every aspect of radiation myelopathy and considers the evidence from all species in which it has been studied.

This book brings together essays analyzing the impact of sport and physical activity on psychophysical well-being and quality of life, through multidisciplinary and multi-country studies.

This text presents a compilation of topics that have been taught at Metabolic University (MU), an interactive, didactic educational program that has trained over 600 metabolic dietitians/nutritionists, physicians, nurses and genetic counselors.

This book brings together innovative research that examines respectively climate change, agricultural production, environmental impacts, food security, nutrition and human health issues with regard to international policies as well as sustainable development goals.

The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines.

The basis of this proposal is the study of quality of life from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book investigates attitudes to the avoidance and management of stress by project managers within the professional construction industry.

Superfoods have come to the forefront of the public imagination due to a combination of presumed health benefits and cultural mystique.

This book brings together essays analyzing the impact of sport and physical activity on psychophysical well-being and quality of life, through multidisciplinary and multi-country studies.