Public health and preventive medicine

This volume strives to give oncologists and other medical practitioners a thorough picture of the oncology patient.

This book compares the methods of surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases in countries selected for their different situations and approaches.

This book describes advanced machine learning models - such as temporal collaborative filtering, stochastic models and Bayesian nonparametrics - for analysing customer behaviour.

This international edited volume is a rare look at cultural, economic and political forces that contribute to school violence.

This book discusses the role of food and the human nutrition-behavior interface.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

The book provides current knowledge and research on the presence and effects of anticancer drug residues in the aqueous environment and covers all relevant aspects of the presence of these residues in wastewaters and natural aquatic systems, where numerous analogies between their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in humans and their effects in the environment can be drawn.

This book is designed to guide all physicians in long-term care, in-, and outpatient settings who work with elders with co-current dementia and medical comorbidities.

This book focuses on polyphenols in the Mediterranean diet, providing a detailed overview of their chemical structure, extraction and analysis methods, and their role in the diet and in flavor.

This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life.

This book aims to concisely present the most common types of musculoskeletal infections and demonstrate the key components of accurate diagnosis, treatment, and management.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

This book is designed to provide all the information required for a sound understanding of diseases of the nose and paranasal sinuses and the surgical techniques used in their management.

This book provides an overview of mitigation strategies and positive health effects of Maillard Reaction products in the contexts of food processing and storage.

This book focuses on waterborne pathogens and significant diseases occurring along major rivers around the globe, including key examples like the Amazonas, Mekong River and Nile.

This book is the combination of the literature on maternal drug use and birth defects with a set of new data on most types of drugs.

This updated and expanded second edition of Resilience in Aging offers a comprehensive description of the current state of knowledge with regard to resilience from physiological (including genetic), psychological (including cognitive and creative), cultural, and economic perspectives.

Rice is a vitally important staple food for almost half of the world's population.

Following the successful first edition of this book on drinking water quality and health, this new edition puts more focus on the importance of minerals in drinking water.

This comprehensive reference explores the current and future state of biobehavioral markers in family resilience research, with special focus on linking biological and physiological measures to behavioral and health outcomes.

This book offers a much-needed discussion on the targeting of biofilm-related infections.

This volume summarizes recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of HIV-1 latency, in characterizing residual viral reservoirs, and in developing targeted interventions to reduce HIV-1 persistence during antiretroviral therapy.

This book is the first to systematically describe the key components necessary to ensure successful implementation of Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) across mental health settings and non-mental health settings that require behavioral management.

While a number of books have looked at the intersection between human health in general and other topics, such as climate change or diet, this book focuses specifically on cancer as it impacts and is impacted by social justice issues.

This volume examines the most important socio-cultural, political, economic, and policy issues related to emerging infectious diseases in Africa.

This book discusses child well-being, with children and adolescents as key informants, from a Latin American perspective.

This book covers all details for a successful control and elimination strategy against propagation of deadly liver and intestinal flukes of the genus Schistosoma in China.

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners.

This book presents an overview of Shiga toxin-producing E.

This volume provides an overview of recent advances in our understanding of the biology of marburg- and ebolaviruses.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism the book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women's recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

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With insight and research from world-renowned experts, this book provides specific approaches to diagnosis and treatment, addressing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present.

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing for studying human behavior and planning innovative e-healthcare interventions.

The book presents recent trends and solutions to help healthcare sectors and medical staff protect themselves and others and limit the spread of the COVID-19.

This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of nutrition in different scenarios of maternal diabetes, including the Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic mother, gestational diabetes, and postpartum diabetes.

This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter.

This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world.

The SIR - model supported by a new density and its derivatives receive a statistical data background from frequency distributions, from whose parameter values over the new density distribution a quality-oriented probability of the respective infection process and its future can be concluded.

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

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).