Public health and preventive medicine

The dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today.

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need and relevance to help wildlife cope with the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene, manifested by global megatrends such as climate change, urbanization and pollution.

In this book, major issues surrounding importance of water and energy for food security in the United States and India are described representing two extremes in yield, irrigation efficiency, and automation.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

This book presents a thorough and critical review of current  knowledge about  the age of onset of mental disorders.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that manifests with a myriad of clinical and laboratory features.

This book brings together Indigenous and allied experts addressing mental health among Indigenous peoples across the traditional territories commonly known as the Americas (e.

This book investigates attitudes to the avoidance and management of stress by project managers within the professional construction industry.

This handbook provides a demographic examination of global obesity trends by bringing together the range of research conducted in this field by demographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other quantitatively and demographically oriented social scientists.

This book draws attention to the non-biological-political, economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic.

This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses to the issue.

This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society.

This book provides nurses, clinicians, practitioners, educators and students working with vulnerable and underserved populations with essential information on effective wellness strategies to address inadequate nutrition, promote physical activity, and reduce perceived stress through an integrative health nursing framework.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to be one of the greatest threats to public health in the twenty-first century.

This book serves as a concise guide to urinary stone disease, providing simplified and complete information about the topic area.

This book shows how PROMs and PREMs can help improve patient experience and outcomes.

This book provides quantitative and applied methodologies in the Covid-19 era exploring important issues in demography, population studies, and health.

This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools.

This book is the first to present the current research showing that like mothers, some fathers struggle with postpartum psychiatric illnesses and have unique needs of their own.

This volume highlights the socioeconomic concerns related to medical care for homeless patients and places them at the interface of common psychiatric and medical problems clinicians encounter.

The first of its kind for budget-impact analysis, this comprehensive guide provides clear and concise instructions for evaluating the impact that new pharmaceuticals will have on the budget for a specific jurisdiction.

This book calls attention to the impact of stigma experienced by people who use illicit drugs.

The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book provides a detailed summary of the therapeutic benefits of natural extracts from medicinal plants, mushrooms, algae, fungi and sponges and their role in the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes, offering readers a solid introduction to obesity and diabetes as well as current treatment models.

This book aims to illuminate the causes, incidence, and treatments of Hepatocellular Carcinoma(HCC) or liver cancer in the politically important and societally diverse region of the Middle East.

This book aims to explore the impact of human alterations of Earth's ecological systems on human health.

Offering an example for transnational cooperation and successful reduction of a neglected tropical disease, this volume shows how Chinese scientists and local physicians controlled schistosomiasis in Zanzibar.

This book is the first volume of two volumes on cyclodextrins published in the series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.

This book covers all aspects of hypersensitivity to drugs, providing practical information for non-specialist physicians as well as addressing issues of interest to practitioners in different specialties and presenting the expert knowledge required by specialist allergists and immunologists.

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media.

This book series focuses on current progress in the broad field of medical microbiology, and covers both basic and applied topics related to the study of microbes, their interactions with human and animals, and emerging issues relevant for public health.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

This textbook for graduate students in statistics, data science, and public health deals with the practical challenges that come with big, complex, and dynamic data.

This book focuses on what makes people happy.

This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.

This book depicts and reveals the socioeconomic dynamics of the COVID-19 crisis, and its global, regional, and local perspectives.

This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context.

This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the science and application of the Exposome through seventeen chapters from leaders in the field.

The new edition of Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition provides an essential but detailed guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a naturopathic perspective.

This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell 'complementary and alternative medicine' (CAM).

This book presents comprehensive coverage on the importance of good nutrition in the treatment and management of obesity, cancer and diabetes.

While the skeletal effects of vitamin D are well-documented, the role and importance of vitamin D outside of bone health has not been well-established.

This book is a clinician's guide to understanding, diagnosing, treating, and healing complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).

This book focuses on the emergence of COVID-19 and climate change as twin mega risks to cities of both developed and developing countries.

This book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers.

This edited volume brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the fields of theoretical, critical, and political psychology to examine crisis phenomena.

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course.