Personal and public health / health education

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.

This book comprehensively and critically discusses chronicity as a crucial challenge for the future of medicine in an era of aging populations and the steady growth of non-communicable comorbidities.

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present.

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influences on human health, handling and management of biomedical waste.

This book outlines the evolution of food traceability matters in the current traditional foods market and particularly with regard to selected historical foods based in Jordan.

This Handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of psychological research on alcohol consumption.

This SpringerBrief provides readers with a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary research about autistics and their experiences and insights of sexual behaviours and interests.

This installment in the Techniques in Life Science and Biomedicine for the Non-Expert series aims to describe ESR spectroscopy as a tool for different applications, such as Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Science, Paleontology & Geochronology and Food Science.

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the impact of human-animal interaction on well-being from childhood to later life.

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This book highlights the work of pioneers in this field, in order to inspire their peers, healthcare leaders and an interested audience.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

Becoming a Neuropsychologist is the first comprehensive resource for students interested in pursuing a career in neuropsychology.

This book is a guide for psychologists working with substance users in different healthcare settings, from private clinical practice to larger health institutions and community services.

Once called the "e;dismal science,"e; economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness.

This book provides an evidence-based approach for the clinical use of nutraceuticals in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease.

In order to understand common conditions such as coeliac disease and Crohn's disease, one must view the gut in its evolutionary context.

This book presents the main concepts and tools for the adoption of a biopsychosocial approach to psychotropic substances use and abuse management, prevention and treatment.

This edited book discusses various processes of feedstocks bioconversion such as bioconversion of food waste, human manure, industrial waste, beverage waste, kitchen waste, organic waste, fruit and vegetable, poultry waste, solid waste, agro-industrial waste, cow dung, steroid, lignocellulosic residue, biomass, natural gas etc.

This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society.

Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) have become essential solutions for better living, preventing disease, and self-care, in addition to biomedical treatments, and for increasing longevity without loss of quality of life.

This book is a clinician's guide to understanding, diagnosing, treating, and healing complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).

This book provides nurses, clinicians, practitioners, educators and students working with vulnerable and underserved populations with essential information on effective wellness strategies to address inadequate nutrition, promote physical activity, and reduce perceived stress through an integrative health nursing framework.

The quantity and quality of the hair are closely related to the nutritional state of an individual.

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings.

This valuable resource prepares graduate-level students in social work and other helping professions to provide integrated behavioral health services in community-based health and mental healthcare settings.

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts.

World population is growing at an alarming rate and may exceed 9.

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

What constitutes a good life?

This book addresses the traditional use of a specific crop legume, grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), as a food product and ingredient for typical food products.

Current research lays emphasis on exploring natural products for use in nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals to overcome various side effects of synthetic drugs.

Our understanding of how the human brain operates and completes its essential tasks continues is fundamentally altered from what it was ten years ago.

More than 20 million childhood deaths occur every year due to the micronutrient deficiency and diet-related non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes).