Public health and preventive medicine

This Cognitive Behavior Therapy text is brief, practical, comprehensive, and tailored just for counselors.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

Soil is a vital support system for all life forms, and is directly or indirectly exposed to various pollutants and harmful chemicals.

Informed by the social-ecological framework, this book focuses on the development of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) in urban China.

This book brings together world experts in the field of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs) who practice an integrated and holistic approach in their care for patients to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive evaluation of a range of issues associated with the biopsychosocial treatment of FGIDs.

Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use?

This casebook profiles exceptional traumatic injury prevention programs from all over the globe.

The new edition of this popular textbook remains a clear and practical introduction to epidemiology for students in all areas of health.

"e;This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being.

This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period.

This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools.

This book prepares and guides individuals who are about to embark (or already have embarked) on a health/medical PhD journey, with a specific focus on Public Health.

This volume focuses on epidemiology, genetic diversity and global distribution of Hepatitis C, as well as laboratory diagnosis.

Food and Nutritional Toxicology provides a broad overview of the chemicals in food that have the potential to produce adverse health effects.

In this practical text, public health students and practitioners will learn the fundamentals of applying community engagement, organization, and development principles to create successful community public health campaigns.

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions.

This book focuses on sustainability issues post COVID-19 outbreak, discusses ways to restrict global spread of the pandemic, and also how to survive holistically in the environment.

This book highlights the overview of the COVID-19 pandemic from both the scientific and the social perspectives.

This book systematically presents and classifies the latest advances in suicide research in contemporary China, examines the status quo of suicides in China and analyzes the reasons for suicides among three high-risk groups, namely: rural females, teenagers, and the elderly.

This book is useful for administrators of different levels involved in counteracting COVID-19, surveillance professionals, clinicians, researchers specializing in epidemiology, microbiology, and infectious diseases, and politicians / legislators engaged in public health sector.

This book summarizes the reported health benefits of bioactive factors in cereal foods and their potential underlying mechanisms.

This book outlines the electro-activity in the human body, human behavior, and other bio-information during image viewing and applies it to a hygienic and clinical setting.

This book presents a life-oriented approach, which is an interdisciplinary methodology proposed for cross-sectoral urban policy decisions such as transport, health, and energy policies.

This volume uniquely presents case studies on health geography in Africa, and analyzes health practices in different African regions to illustrate a unified perspective to the geographies of health.

This volume recognizes and addresses the health care issues of prisoners, to establish best practices and to learn about approaches to these challenges from around the world.

This book explores the challenges that confront leaders in government and industry when making decisions in the areas of environmental health and safety.

This book provides cutting-edge information on the epidemiology, etiology and pathophysiology of several prevalent occupational and environmental skin diseases (OSD/ESD), with a particular focus on skin health safety issues, risk factors, preventive measures and recent advances in the management of these diseases.

Joachim Rathmann presents the interdisciplinary relationships between landscapes and health.

Urban resilience and building resilience are "e;hot topics"e; of research and practice on sustainability in the context of climate change.

This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research.

Becoming a Neuropsychologist is the first comprehensive resource for students interested in pursuing a career in neuropsychology.

This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization.

This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory.

Reduce Child Obesity: A Guide to Using The Kid's Choice Program in School and at Home provides school leaders with a practical guide for applying the Kid's Choice Program (KCP), which is a school-based program to promote healthy behaviors and reduce the risk of child obesity.

This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment.

Zum Thema „Achtsamkeit in Bildungsprozessen“ werden in diesem Sammelband theoretische Aspekte zur grundlegenden Bedeutsamkeit von Achtsamkeit in der Pädagogik als auch konkrete Praxisbeispiele bis hin zu schulischen Curricula versammelt.

Michael Klösch und Anna-Maria Dieplinger stellen in diesem essential das anwenderorientierte Journal-Club-Konzept vor, welches am Institut für Pflegewissenschaft und -praxis der Paracelsus Medizinischen Privatuniversität (PMU) Salzburg bereits implementiert wurde.

This book addresses the most important postnatal features of Zika virus infection, providing important information on its epidemiology, pathology, clinical aspects, imaging and laboratory diagnosis.

Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs) have become essential solutions for better living, preventing disease, and self-care, in addition to biomedical treatments, and for increasing longevity without loss of quality of life.

This Brief provides a comprehensive overview of Cyclospora cayetanensis, a protozoan apicomplexan parasite that leads to outbreaks of traveler's diarrhea in consumers.

The lifestyles and socio-economic status that are prevalent in regions of the world with limited resources form the background for the unique features of neoplastic diseases in these areas, where the majority of the world population lives.