Personal and public health / health education

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.

Finding all the information necessary to treat or meet the nutritional requirements of patients who are severely ill or establish new protocols has historically been problematic.

This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide.

Microbiome, Immunity, Digestive Health and Nutrition: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment addresses a wide range of topics related to the role of nutrition in achieving and maintaining a healthy gut microbiome.

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer.

In the 1980s there was growing interest in the topic of ageing and learning disabilities, for two principal reasons.

This book is a groundbreaking book that delves into the critical intersection of health care and sustainability.

This book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported with practical examples from international research studies.

Now in its third edition, Health Psychology offers the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field.

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

Examining the most controversial foods and ingredients, this book provides an objective, well-balanced look at their health benefits and risks.

Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

Young people are a distinct group with specific exercise needs, yet there are a number of misconceptions and limited guidance on the subject.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

This book deals with the general principles, policy instruments, sustainability of supply chain, and business of health-care waste (HCW) management including inputs on exercise in immune health defense against COVID 19.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.

This book explores the memory and representation of genocide as they affect individuals, communities and families, and artistic representations.

Fed up with conflicting advice?

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jurgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict.

This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood.

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities?

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics.

The terms 'wellbeing', 'empowerment' and 'agency' are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are often misused or not fully understood.

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK.

The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenomenon, not simply a medical condition.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the 'feminist I'.

Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

Soil is a vital support system for all life forms, and is directly or indirectly exposed to various pollutants and harmful chemicals.

Do we judge the poor?

Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China.

This book brings together world experts in the field of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs) who practice an integrated and holistic approach in their care for patients to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive evaluation of a range of issues associated with the biopsychosocial treatment of FGIDs.

Helping the Suicidal Person provides a highly practical toolbox for mental health professionals.

This book provides a concise overview of sexuality and gender identity in clients with intellectual disabilities for therapists, social workers, educators, and healthcare providers.

The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow's east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards.

Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow's east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards.

"e;This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being.

This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period.

This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools.

Food and Nutritional Toxicology provides a broad overview of the chemicals in food that have the potential to produce adverse health effects.

"e;[This book] provides a perceptive, research based, and pragmatic approach to working with couples seeking reconnection after years of childrearing.

Based on the Handbook of Rehabilitation Counseling (Rigger/Maki 2004), this new volume has been completely revised and updated to accommodate the overarching changes that have recently occurred in the field.

This book systematically presents and classifies the latest advances in suicide research in contemporary China, examines the status quo of suicides in China and analyzes the reasons for suicides among three high-risk groups, namely: rural females, teenagers, and the elderly.