Public health and preventive medicine

This is the first volume providing a research platform to showcase research in the field of positive psychology and well-being science in African contexts.

This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children's rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) also known as sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have been the focus of global attention.

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This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

As sequel to Aquatic Animal Nutrition - A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations, the present treatise on organic macro- and micronutrients continues the unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology/ecophysiology and aquaculture.

This book examines current trends and practices in social skills instruction for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), focusing on empirical support of current practices and for which populations such practices have been most frequently evaluated (e.

This book explores the challenges and precarity of higher education post-pandemic, explicitly focusing on higher education in emerging countries.

The book discusses concepts and theories of general management and their specific applications related to public health and health care.

This book presents a series of protocols in multiple disease areas affected by the aging process along with several methods which have shown progress in nutrient- or intervention-based approaches to maximize the healthspan.

This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products.

This book mainly summarizes and analyzes the advanced research progress in the field of behavioral public administration, and also looks forward to the future of related academic research.

In the current era, evidence-based medicine and various supporting technologies dominate everyday clinical practice, according to a disease-centred, as opposed to patient-centred, approach.

This edited book presents the latest information on epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and some current topics covering all aspects of cerebral palsy.

Zu betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung und zu Gesundheitsmanagement liegen zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen vor.

This volume draws upon one of the first comprehensive studies on the regional variations of services for aging persons in China to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the impact of China's rapidly growing aging population on the country's socioeconomic, cultural, and political systems.

This book discusses problems, challenges, and mitigation strategies in the wake of environmental degradation.

Covid-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century.

This book provides a practical overview of the treatment and management of celiac disease.

Allergy is the most frequent chronic disease in the 21st century having severe negative effects on health and the economy.

This book provides the first diverse and multifaceted textual and cartographic overview of natural curative resources of mineral waters and peloids in Russia.

This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships.

This volume interrogates global health and especially the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role that science has played in mitigating the human experiences of pandemics and health over the centuries.

This book addresses current topics on pathogenic Vibrio spp.

This book covers current aspects of important infectious diseases affecting human and animal health in Latin American countries.

Superfoods have come to the forefront of the public imagination due to a combination of presumed health benefits and cultural mystique.

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areas and proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negative impact.

A must read for all paramedics and pre-hospital clinicians"e; Gemma Howlett, Principal Lecturer in Paramedic Apprenticeships, University of Cumbria, UK"e;A unique and valuable book to enable paramedics to undertake the daily challenges of providing care and support for patients and service users experiencing mental health difficulties.

Health threats pose significant dangers to humankind and form a major source of human suffering and sorrow.

This book highlights novel and pragmatic health promotion efforts being adopted with boys and young men of colour (BYMOC) globally that apply a strengths-based approach.

This book explores the ways in which systems (organizational) consultation may be applied to school roles and functions as part of an overall systems change process.

After more than 30 years, The Book of Fructans represents the first and most comprehensive coverage of fructans generated by pioneer glycoscientists from the field.

This textbook covers topics in sport and exercise psychology for students of psychology and sport science, as well as for sport practitioners who want to understand topics in sport psychology in more detail and depth.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of how happiness and wellbeing are measured.

The book brings out several unique perspectives of impacts of COVID-19 on the environment with special emphasis on the risk and remediation of emerging contaminants.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

This book aims to provide the dental team with an improved understanding of management of the oral health needs of the ageing population, in whom increasing cognitive, medical and physical disabilities impact significantly on oral health and dental care needs.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die relevanten Grundlagen der Psychologie für das Studium der Gesundheits- und Pflegewissenschaften.

This book provides an in-depth ethical analysis of the right to health care by contrasting privatized with socialized approaches.

Significant shifts in community violence have created a need for greater awareness of character development and violence prevention in schools.

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.

This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm.

The book comprehensively reviews the role of nutrition in psychiatric disorders.

This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume.

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

Navigating research careers is often highly challenging for early career researchers (ECRs) in the social sciences.

This book analyzes the factors that have sparked pandemics over the past 2000 years, from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19.