Personal and public health / health education

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 timely handbook provides in-depth overviews of the myriad and multi-faceted issues surrounding sexual assault and its pervasiveness in today's culture.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality.

Plants produce chemicals as part of their normal metabolic activities.

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

This book focuses on the use of food gases in the food industry, their different applications and their role in food processing, packaging and transportation.

The fourth edition of this book updates and elaborates on the seven dimensions of maternal emotional health that have significant impact on delivery, postpartum adaptation, infant health, and early childhood development.

This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of social contexts.

Emerging policy changes are encouraging adoption of a team-based approach to healthcare, yet most healthcare professionals receive little training in how to practice integrated care.

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

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

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

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

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.

This book explores the contemporary practice of Neo-shamanism and its relationship to mental health.

This volume brings together trends and their prospects to understand the complexity of metacognitive phenomena, with emphasis on the interactions of metacognition with affect.

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.

The chapter entitled "e;Truth or Dare; Women, Politics, and the Symphysiotomy Scandal"e;, by Oonagh Walsh, was published in this book "e;GeoHumanities and Health"e; by Springer Nature AG.

Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our lives.

This book explains the role of food-oriented (or 'food-centric') quality system standards in the modern food and beverage industry.

This book covers subjects that have major impacts on society, such as the mechanism of maternal-fetal transfer of vitamin A, and the effects of alcohol on retinoic acid signaling and mammalian embryonic development.

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

This book discusses the role of food and the human nutrition-behavior interface.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

The book provides current knowledge and research on the presence and effects of anticancer drug residues in the aqueous environment and covers all relevant aspects of the presence of these residues in wastewaters and natural aquatic systems, where numerous analogies between their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in humans and their effects in the environment can be drawn.

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.