Personal and public health / health education

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by arsenic water contamination.

This unique book is a first-of-its-kind resource, comprehensively guiding readers through the epidemiology, pathophysiology, recent diagnostic criteria, and management options for patients with Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES).

This book provides an overview of the research on spirituality, religiousness and health, including the most important studies, conceptualization, instruments for measurement, types of studies, challenges, and criticisms.

This book explores the challenges that confront leaders in government and industry when making decisions in the areas of environmental health and safety.

This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory.

This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research.

This ambitious book provides the latest research in leading topics of behavioral medicine and evidence-based strategies for its application in solving clinical problems.

This comprehensive book examines the organization, financing, delivery, and outcomes of behavioral health (i.

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

This book focuses on the drivers of Jihadist terrorism and explains how a better understanding of these drivers can lead to more effective counterterrorism policies all over the world.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.

This book outlines the underlying principles on which interior lighting should be based, provides detailed information on the lighting hardware available today and gives guidance for the design of interior lighting installations resulting in good visual performance and comfort, alertness and health.

This volume provides readers with the necessary information to select the most appropriate nutritional support following gastrointestinal tract surgery.

This book presents comprehensive chapters on the latest research and applications in wastewater treatment using green technologies.

This volume brings together multiple diverse perspectives from around the globe on quality of life and community well-being from a place-based perspective.

This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin's groundbreaking work on happiness and economics.

This text comprehensively covers the nutritional and medical management and prevention of kidney stones.

This handbook reflects on quality-of-life in societies on the continent of Africa.

This crucial volume provides a concise overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods underlying the rapidly emerging subspecialty of integrative mental healthcare.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970.

This volume provides readers with a systematic assessment of current literature on the link between nutrition and immunity.

This brief discusses the influence of modern food production on dietary patterns and chronic diseases.

Eating, including the provision of food and the consumption of food, is the biggest industry in the world, and a major contributor to our health, and to our enjoyment.

This important book describes the effects of a range of medical, psychological, and neurological conditions on brain functioning, specifically cognition.

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts.

This volume looks at positive psychology from a culturally-responsive, empirically-driven perspective to avoid a descent into pseudoscience.

This book describes the experience of joblessness and unemployment in contemporary Poland.

This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world.

This book explores both the existence and prevalence of addiction in South and East Africa, departing from traditional assumptions about addiction in the region.

This book provides new ideas on how to work with and constructively transform shame on a theoretical and practical level, and in various socio-cultural contexts and professions.

This book provides a global overview of pulse intake and future trends from a variety of perspectives.

This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand-and help correct-health disparities, both at the patient level and in their larger social contexts.

This book will be a guiding path to understand the photocatalytic process and mechanism for the deterioration of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pathogens from wastewater.

Alternative medicine (AM) is hugely popular; about 40% of the US general population have used at least one type of alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%.

This authoritative reference surveys mind-body healing concepts and psychosomatic medicine in diverse countries and regions of the world.

This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers.

Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.

This book offers a conceptual and practical guide to the systematic review process and its application to sport, exercise, and physical activity research.

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts.

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners.

This book has a unique focus on physiotherapy techniques and training methods that are ideally suited for the obese patient.

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism the book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women's recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics.

This book presents an overview of the work of the most important Psychology researchers in Brazil, contributing to the internationalization of the discipline and fostering cross-cultural approaches in the field.

This book explores how lighting systems based on LED sources have the ability to positively influence the human circadian system, with benefits for health and well-being.

This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly.

This book includes research papers submitted to and presented during the first international conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November of 2017.

This book focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on organizations and society as a whole.

This volume strives to give oncologists and other medical practitioners a thorough picture of the oncology patient.

This volume provides an overview of the ways the Italian school of quality of life studies addresses well-being and quality of life, from both a substantive and a methodological point of view.

Dietitian and nutrition therapist Leslie Schilling turns diet culture on its head with a radical new message: We aren't designed to diet.