Public health and preventive medicine

Non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, represent the cause of 60% of all deaths around the globe.

This edited volume offers an accessible avenue for improving health and well-being by demonstrating the power of narrative in advocating for yourself, your family, and your community.

The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health expertly brings together two very distinct, but complementary, streams of work and thought: theoretical and methodological work on acculturation, and the applied work linking acculturation to various health outcomes among international migrants and their families.

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare?

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare?

This book maps out a program that allows patients to benefit from the combination of conventional and orthomolecular therapy.

Accompanied by success stories, this modern, no-holds-barred resource features a proven nutritional program that dispels common diet myths involving the food pyramid, water, low-carbohydrate foods, protein, and much more.

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene.

Lebensmittelsensorik umfasst das Prüfen von Lebensmitteln mit den menschlichen Sinnen.

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene.

Lebensmittelsensorik umfasst das Prüfen von Lebensmitteln mit den menschlichen Sinnen.

Psychische Erkrankungen sind eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Herausforderung mit vielen Facetten und müssen als solche auch interdisziplinär betrachtet werden.

Psychische Erkrankungen sind eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Herausforderung mit vielen Facetten und müssen als solche auch interdisziplinär betrachtet werden.

This book examines China's fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.

Dieses Schulungsbuch wendet sich an Zielgruppen, welche in ihrer Arbeit mit Alkoholkranken-Menschen direkt und indirekt in Berührung kommen und sich mit dem Thema Alkoholismus aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beschäftigen wollen.

Es gibt Anzeichen dafür, dass man an Alzheimer erkranken kann.

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine.

"e;An excellent and concise, yet clear and comprehensive, overview of a common disease.

Combining popular appeal with accessibly written entries suitable for research projects, this fascinating encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the psychological and scientific aspects of phobias.

The foods eaten by a nation's population play a key role in shaping the health of that society.

This book draws on research within neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist perspectives to critically analyse National Health Services (NHSs) in Western Europe.

This book focuses on the relationship between buildings and our health and wellbeing, and by extension our quality of life.

This important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims.

First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the experience and the conception of time among the elderly.

"e;An excellent and concise, yet clear and comprehensive, overview of a common disease.

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War.

This volume first considers the categories of zinc metalloenzymes, together with models of the enzymic metal-ion binding sites.

Die weltweit renommierte Virologin Isabella Eckerle über die Sprengkraft von Virus-Infektionen - ein hochaktuelles Wissenschafts-Sachbuch über Zoonosen, Pandemien und die globale Gesundheit.

This accessibly written book provides a broad introduction to diabetes-its signs, symptoms, and effects on the body; how it can be managed and prevented; and the issues and controversies that surround this all-too-common condition.

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures is a long-standing, must-have reference book for practising environmental health officers in local government and in private practice.

Providing current information on the health, culture, food and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States, FOOD AND CULTURE supports human diversity and inclusivity and provides you with an accessible lens to see connection.

This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their biosocial encounters while grappling with chronic breathlessness.

Community Psychology, 7th Edition presents the field's conceptual roots and possible applications in a comprehensive overview of the field.

Behind the scenes of the rush to create mass Covid testing programs overnightSWAB is the story of how BioReference Laboratoriesworking with no roadmap, no federal guidance or support, and no prior pandemic experienceestablished processes to test every imaginable segment of the American public.

The ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.

Neurologie Band 2Gehirnverletzung"Hirnverletzung Schädel-Hirn-Trauma SHT – Schädel-Hirn-Verletzung: Eine umfassende Information für Betroffene, Angehörige und medizinisches- sowie Pflegepersonal"Dieses fachlich fundierte Buch bietet in für Laien verständlicher Sprache einen ersten umfassenden Überblick für Betroffene, ihre Angehörigen und medizinisches Personal im Zusammenhang mit einer Hirnverletzung, insbesondere eines Schädel-Hirn-Traumas (SHT).

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.

First published in 1964, The Last Refuge originated from the author's visit to a Victorian workhouse which had become an Institution for old people.

This book examines the nature, prevention, and treatment of violence within families.

Unexplained weight gain?

Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment.

Social media has become vital in Generation Z users' daily lives, as they are the most connected group through social media; however, studies have shown the negative side of using social media heavily, particularly loneliness.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice.

Social media has become vital in Generation Z users' daily lives, as they are the most connected group through social media; however, studies have shown the negative side of using social media heavily, particularly loneliness.

Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical practice.