Public health and preventive medicine

This book shows how to plan, refine, and implement peer-supported mindfulness-based interventions to prevent mental disorders in children and youths.

This is the first volume addressing the importance of teaching quality of life theory and methodology in different domains: social sciences, philosophy, sociology, political science, marketing, education, urbanism, statistics, economics, online learning, public health, sports, and constraint contexts in terms of their relationship with the Capability Approach.

Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gut microbiome/microflora in nutrition, metabolism, disease prevention and health issues, including farm animal health and food value, and human gastrointestinal health and immunity.

This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health.

Advances in molecular biology and genome research in the form of molecular breeding and genetic engineering put forward innovative prospects for improving productivity of many pulses crops.

This book provides valuable insight into emerging trends in healthcare delivery; patient, family and caregiver engagement and the intersection of the two.

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 is for researchers and students looking for ways to engage communities and industry in research.

This book primarily focuses on the African Sahel region, shedding new light on the epidemiology, socio-economics, clinical manifestations and control approaches of transboundary animal diseases (TADs) in this specific region.

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.

This book brings together two important discussions in public health in developing countries: an understanding of the burden of disease, health equity and social determinants of health; and biomathematical models, epidemiological studies and estimation of the direct and indirect cost of disease.

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.

Diabetes has become a worldwide health problem, the global estimated prevalence approaches ten percent and the burden of this disease in terms of morbidity and mortality is unprecedented.

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.

The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics.

This book provides theoretical and applied material for estimating vital parts of demography and health issues including the healthy aging process along with calculating the healthy life years lost to disability.

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 examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany.

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

This book focuses on the interface between the patient and the healthcare system as the entryway to high-quality care and improved outcomes.

This book tackles the most common challenges that medical students experience that lead to burnout in medical school by carefully presenting guidelines for assessment, management, clinical pearls, and resources for further references.

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.

This book provides an evidence-based, practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent fungal infections in a general hospital.

This book provides a current analysis of the legal and ethical challenges in preparing for and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) crises.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview on developmental origins of health and disease regarding various factors related to the origins of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from early life.

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.

This book focuses on the intersection of place and overall community health thereby focusing on some of the most critical contemporary social problems, including the opioid crisis, suicide, socioeconomic status and ethnicity, mental illness, crime, homelessness, green criminology, and social and environmental justice.

Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our lives.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues.

This book presents new insights into the consequences of the impending growth in and impact of the older segment of Latino aging adults across distinctive regions of the Americas.

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

This textbook focuses on the nascent field of Immunoepidemiology that addresses how differences in immune responses among individuals affect the epidemiology of infectious diseases, cancer, hypersensitivity, and autoimmunity.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on LGBTQ-parent families.

This compact resource analyzes and demystifies the processes of applying for, competing for, and getting funding for research.

This book explores how best practice for acute stroke care was developed, translated and taken up in medical practice across various sites in the province of Ontario using institutional ethnographic research.

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.