Personal and public health / health education

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.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

This multivolume reference work addresses the fact that the well being of humankind is predicated not only on individuals receiving adequate nutrition but also on their genetic makeup.

Humankind has used a variety of spices to flavor food for centuries.

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

In this book, major issues surrounding importance of water and energy for food security in the United States and India are described representing two extremes in yield, irrigation efficiency, and automation.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

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

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 investigates attitudes to the avoidance and management of stress by project managers within the professional construction industry.

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

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.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools.

The first of its kind for budget-impact analysis, this comprehensive guide provides clear and concise instructions for evaluating the impact that new pharmaceuticals will have on the budget for a specific jurisdiction.

The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book provides a detailed summary of the therapeutic benefits of natural extracts from medicinal plants, mushrooms, algae, fungi and sponges and their role in the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes, offering readers a solid introduction to obesity and diabetes as well as current treatment models.

This book is the first volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This book focuses on what makes people happy.

This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.