Public health and preventive medicine

"e;Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis"e;, focuses on a topic of national concern.

Allergens in food and their detection, management and elimination constitute a key issue for food manufacturers, especially in terms of safety.

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces.

There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease.

Worry has a way of growing, shifting from not-a-big-deal to a VERY BIG DEAL in the blink of an eye.

In Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox, Gustav Milne explores how we can reconfigure our lifestyles and urban environments, based on an understanding of our prehistoric past, in order to bring about a richer future for mankind.

Compiled by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, the World Food Programme, the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development, this is the first sourcebook of its kind to document government-led school feeding programmes in low and middle income countries.

This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health.

Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a self-study tool for undergraduate students.

This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care.

Currently there are at least four major, identifiable perspectives on how people best understand and recover from religious abuse.

Presenting simple and cost-effective solutions for maintaining and improving mealtime abilities, this book discusses the practical aspects of eating and drinking as part of person-centred dementia care.

We live in a "e;metric culture"e; where data, algorithms, and numbers play an unmistakably powerful role in defining, shaping and ruling the world we inhabit.

Probiotics: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Health and Mitigate Disease is an indispensable resource for a deeper understanding of the intricate world of probiotics and their profound impact on human health.

The use and practice of traditional, complementary and/or integrative medicine (TCIM) raises significant questions, poses many challenges and holds much potential for the broad fields of public health and health services research.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

Whether you're fairly new to therapy or you've practiced for many years, no doubt at times you've found yourself stumped with certain clients who leave you feeling perplexed and discouraged with that 'I-just-don't-know-what-to-do-next' feeling.

The issue of risk should be embedded into the mindset of every engineer and manager to improve safety and dependability.

In total, this volume addresses many of the issues that couples face when either one or both partners has ADHD and the many ways that clinicians can help them in dealing with these issues.

Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life.

This book, based on published studies, takes a unique perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule "e;magic bullet"e; interventions.

The use of genetics for the resolution of legal conflicts has recently been gaining a higher profile, largely as a result of scientific and technological advancements and the substantial broadening of applications.

Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a self-study tool for undergraduate students.

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WINNER - NAUTILUS GOLD BOOK AWARDWINNER - AASECT PROFESSIONALS BOOK AWARDExploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings.

Safe and Clean Care is the responsibility of all those working in Health and Social Care and this book will provide much-needed guidance on responsibility, accountability and good practice with respect to infection prevention and control.

Mad Studies: The Basics provides an introductory account of a field that emerged from, and must remain grounded within, community knowledge, activism, and the perspectives of those who have experienced madness and mental health systems.

Illness is a part of life.

Don't waste you time with health and diet Web sites that don't work.

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Named a 2011 Library Journal Core Nonfiction BookThe Diabetes Manifesto gives people with Diabetes a book that will help them feel in control of their lives, regardless of their changing symptoms or disease status.

Wellbeing: Policy and Practice details the contemporary research evidence base for health and wellbeing within the global context.

Intended to clarify how genes influence health, this handbook helps to estimate levels of risk for a number of common diseases.

This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care.

Globally, HIV-associated tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of infection-related death, accounting for one in every three HIV deaths and over 300,000 in 2017 alone.

This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health.

An Economist Best Book of 2025"e;Fair Dosesis an unflinching insider account of how science, politics, and human nature collided in the battle to vaccinate the world.

The sixth edition of Contact Dermatitis covers in detail every conceivable aspect of irritant and allergic contact dermatitis and its modern-day management.

This book explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension.

Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "e;institutionalizing"e; community-based health care.

This perceptive volume presents conceptual, theoretical, and empirical approaches to social policy analysis comparing China and Nordic countries in their treatment of the elderly.

In the era of big data and real-time monitoring, vast amounts of information are generated every second through sensors and advanced tracking systems.

This book explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects.

Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more.

This book combines experience in child protection with expertise in clinical pharmacology and forensic toxicology, to set out a broad contemporary understanding of child maltreatment with drugs.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

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The book begins by covering the general and clinical challenges that are unique to Muslims, drawing from an internationally, ethnically, and intergenerationally diverse pool of experts.

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings.