Public health and preventive medicine

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration.

This unique and comprehensive title offers state-of-the-art guidance on all of the clinical principles and practices needed in providing optimal health and well-being services for college students.

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book addresses the three basic areas of combustion toxicology: combustion of materials, assessment of the toxicity of smoke, and understanding of hazards to humans.

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging.

This volume analyses the relevance of daily travel in the quality of life of individuals.

This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all.

This clinical casebook provides a comprehensive yet concise state-of-the-art review of gluten-associated disorders.

Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures-work, family, social networks, and voluntary associations-Brian Jones empirically examines the widespread claims that American society is becoming less sociable, trusting, and cooperative.

This book provides an overview of the discovery and structure of IL-17, including its pathogenesis and role in chronic inflammation and autoimmunity.

How efficient is the Chinese healthcare system?

The demand for return in investment (ROI) analyses in public health is on the rise as a 'business case' needs to be presented before a public health programme can be funded.

This book addresses the pulmonary and non-pulmonary manifestations related to exposure to airborne hazards after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities.

This book presents the results of the Canadian Holistic Health in Children project.

This book discusses fundamental discourses relating to health in Africa arising out of the consequences of endemic diseases in Africa.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.

This book applies the concept of cultural safety to the field of health psychology in a US context as a means to achieve health equity.

This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses.

This book contains the current knowledge and potential future developments of precision medicine techniques including artificial intelligence, big data, mobile health, digital health and genetic medicine in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

This book discusses the clinical management of adolescents with liver disease bridging the gap between pediatric and adult hepatology patient management.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied.

This book describes the variety of direct and indirect population size estimation (PSE) methods available along with their strengths and weaknesses.

This volume of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) series covers the most prevalent NTDs in Europe and Central Asia.

This volume introduces the reader to the most important standards and principles of prophylactic surgery.

This book presents an analysis of active ageing and physical activity from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This second edition provides a review of the current flow research.

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress.

Now in its revised and updated second edition, this text provides a practical way of teaching genetic counseling helping skills.

Rapidly increasing aging population and environmental stressors are the two main global concerns of increasing incidence of a variety of pathologies in the modern society.

This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice.

This book has been developed to provide a detailed discussion of probiotics, which have been evaluated for use predominantly in fish and shellfish aquaculture.

This book presents recent reviews on the occurrence, analysis, toxicity and remediation of pesticides in biological systems such as fish, chickens, water, soil and food.

This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading.

The aim of this book is to present articles that are stimulating to read and inform readers with the most up-to-date clinical research.

This brief addresses important aspects of food additives.

This book provides the readers with a series of complex cases that are organized by psychiatric disorder.

This monograph introduces some current developments in the modelling of the spread of tick-borne diseases.

This text provides essential modeling skills and methodology for the study of infectious diseases through a one-semester modeling course or directed individual studies.

This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-a-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.

This volume addresses  various issues related to micronutrient deficiency, especially zinc, and discusses the possible approaches for combating mineral deficiency among humans and plants.

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion.

This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result.

This volume identifies gaps in the assessment, management, and communication of food allergen risks.

This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing healthcare system.

This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame.