Personal and public health / health education

This book focuses on polyphenols in the Mediterranean diet, providing a detailed overview of their chemical structure, extraction and analysis methods, and their role in the diet and in flavor.

This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

This book provides an overview of mitigation strategies and positive health effects of Maillard Reaction products in the contexts of food processing and storage.

This updated and expanded second edition of Resilience in Aging offers a comprehensive description of the current state of knowledge with regard to resilience from physiological (including genetic), psychological (including cognitive and creative), cultural, and economic perspectives.

This book is intended as a manual and offers an essential tool for practicing and occupational dermatologists, for postgraduates training in dermatology and allergo-immunology, and for allergologists and occupational physicians.

This book spotlights the complexities of relationships, drawing on theories that have guided relationship scholars, classic studies, and current research - juxtaposed with the current Indian milieu.

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

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

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 gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

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 examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

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.

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.

This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death.

This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR).

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

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

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

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 handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life.

This third edition reviews the epidemiology, policies, programs and outcome indicators that are used to determine improvements in nutrition and health that lead to development.

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 title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

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

This book represents a simple, practical resource for all healthcare professionals working with dermatological patients with psychological aspects to their disease.

This book discusses anger in psychology, its mechanisms, predisposing factors, precipitating factors, its impacts on brain structure.

This book asks what kind of impacts innovations and technology have on subjective well-being and happiness.

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 will fill an important gap in literature covering the clinical health psychology applications affecting the military and veteran health care systems.

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

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

This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues.

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

This book is the first scientific publication on diseases caused by agents circulating in natural environments independently from humans, covering the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

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

This book proposes a novel approach to the design of accessible and inclusive sailing yachts, inspired by the principles of "e;Design for All.

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