Personal and public health / health education

This book explores in depth the relationships between nutrition and oral health.

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.

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 offers a concise and updated guide for all readers (physicians and non-physicians) interested in gaining a comprehensive and precise understanding of sarcopenia.

This book provides an overview of various traditional Middle Eastern food products and beverages and investigates their chemical, microbial and physical profiles.

Rotator cuff surgery is currently the most common surgical procedure involving the shoulder.

This book addresses the consequences of high agricultural pesticide use over the last few decades in the form of organophosphate poisoning.

This book discusses all aspects of non-pharmacologic approaches to primary and secondary CVD prevention.

This book provides a comprehensive reference guide to plant-derived antioxidants, their beneficial effects, mechanisms of action, and role in disease prevention and improving general health (anti-ageing effect).

The word stress is everywhere and highly overused.

This topical book sheds light on immigrants' subjective well-being by analysing the main factors associated with self-reported life satisfaction among immigrants and natives.

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 examines how we design and deliver health communication messages relating to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics.

This book applies the concept of cultural safety to the field of health psychology in a US context as a means to achieve health equity.

This book provides up to date information on the emerging trends and technology in food nanotechnology.

This volume addresses  various issues related to micronutrient deficiency, especially zinc, and discusses the possible approaches for combating mineral deficiency among humans and plants.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

The Bambara groundnut (BGN) or Vigna subterranea is an extremely hardy grain legume.

This book presents the main theoretical and practical tools provided by behavior analysis to diagnose and treat substance use disorders.

This book presents a cross-cultural investigation into the interplay between social capital and subjective well-being.

This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses to the issue.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This book argues that, to be healthy, human beings should love nature and stay in balance with it as much as possible.

This book explains about amino acids (AAs) which are not only building blocks of protein, but are also signaling molecules as well as regulators of gene expression and the protein phosphorylation cascade.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31-April 2, 2021.

Today's consumers are looking for food products with health-promoting roles in addition to nutritional benefits.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that manifests with a myriad of clinical and laboratory features.

This book offers strategies and solutions for rural communities dependent on fossil fuel economies to enable them to transition to sustainable development.

The third, thoroughly revised and enhanced edition of this bestselling book analyses and discusses the most up-to-date research on the psychology of quality of life.

This book presents comprehensive coverage on the importance of good nutrition in the treatment and management of obesity, cancer and diabetes.

This book brings together Indigenous and allied experts addressing mental health among Indigenous peoples across the traditional territories commonly known as the Americas (e.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

This book explores the traditional use of Ilex paraguariensis, a plant that is widely distributed in South America.

This collection shows what happens when facing the inevitable and sometimes expected death of a parent, and how such an ordinary part of life as parental death might connect with the children left behind.

This book is a psychobiography on the life of Viktor Frankl and a unique exploration of his life from a positive psychology perspective.

This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century.

In the developing countries, pollution through solid waste, sludge from water and wastewater treatment plants and pollution of natural water resources have become one of the grave issues.

This timely edited collection presents a holistic and biopsychosocial analysis of LGBTQ People of Color well-being, focused on heart, brain, and mental health, and employs a unique incorporation of minority stress, intersectionality, and allostatic load frameworks.

This book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments.

This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised.

In this book the authors share the strategies and procedures they use in their clinical daily practice to assess and treat complex cases of eating disorders.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

Due to their high nutritive value and the presence of secondary metabolites, wetland plants can be consumed by humans as food and utilized as medicinal drugs.

This comprehensive book organizes the components of quality and safety outcomes, within a framework developed by expert nurses.

Depression, a highly common clinical disorder, is an important and clinically relevant topic for both clinical researchers and practitioners to address, because of its prevalence, impact on the individual and society, association with other mental and physical health problems and the social contexts in which it develops.

This book presents papers from the 9th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on sustainable education and development.

This book shows how psychological aspects of individuals and of couple relationships can work as both protective or risk factors to the health of diabetes patients and their partners.

This book offers a radically different perspective on the topic of health inequity.

This research volume examines the available alternative, complementary, pharmaceutical and vaccine methods for treating, mitigating, or preventing COVID-19.

This edited volume provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine.