Public health and preventive medicine

The book discusses up-to-date and detailed information about the nutritional quality of forage in the biodiversity-rich Himalayan region and their potential in livestock feeding.

This is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer.

This volume discusses the importance of positive schooling in producing responsible and potentially productive adults.

This book is suitable to be used as a textbook for all levels of students in medical school.

This book serves as a roadmap for the development and application of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures, supporting beginners through to experts, as a practical guide.

This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health issues in China.

Importance of herbs (medicinal plants) can hardly be overemphasized.

In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water.

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.

This publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), an event held annually in Singapore.

This book evaluates trends arising in "e;-Omics"e; sciences in terms of their current and potential future application to therapeutic design and understanding of disease.

The proper disposal of unused or expired prescription drugs, particularly controlled substances such as opioids, may help to prevent serious risk of nonmedical use or overdose.

Ecosystems form the foundation upon which society can survive and thrive, providing food, water, air, materials, and recreation.

Dieses wissenschaftlich fundierte Fachbuch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die biochemischen und physiologischen Grundlagen der low carb vegetarischen und veganen Ernährungsweise.

Developed from the authors' graduate-level biostatistics course, Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis, Second Edition explains how to perform the statistical analysis of discrete data, including categorical and count outcomes.

Pests cause economic damage to crops and stored products, while vectors are responsible for the transmission of disease-causing agents in human beings and livestock.

This Element argues that the peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of modern international health.

Omega-3 fatty acids can limit the inflammation that is the underlying cause of many severe diseases of modern civilization, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Omega-3 fatty acids can limit the inflammation that is the underlying cause of many severe diseases of modern civilization, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

This book provides up-to-date information and practical approaches to Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) programs for digestive and / or cardiopulmonary surgery.

This proceedings volume explores a range of sports-related topics, including sports science, exercise, sports engineering and technology, in contributions prepared by respected experts and presented at the 3rd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology (ICoSSEET2016).

This book is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in relation to government and NGOs.

This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India.

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing.

Drawing from the work of academics and practitioners from ten states across the country, this edited volume showcases and synthesises the diversity and richness of efforts to understand and act on the social determinants of health in India, the conditions in which we are born, grow, live work and age.

This book offers an empowering approach to working with people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) based upon the views and perspectives of people with ABI themselves.

This book covers recent developments in epidemic process models and related data on temporally varying networks.

The book highlights intricate predisposing factors for pathogenesis of nutritional anemia.

This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India.

This book discusses modern technologies for utilizing various types of agricultural waste as a direct means of properly managing its abundance.

The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.

This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice.

This book presents the history of HIV/AIDS in China, which over the last three decades has been a gripping tale of exclusion and fear, and then, by turns, of involuntary tragedy, cautious experimentation and finally vigorous response.

This book describes the structure, function and nutritional values of iron-, zinc-, selenium- and calcium-containing proteins, exploring key mineral-containing proteins like phytoferritin and lactoferrin, as well as a host of zinc- and selenium-containing proteins.

This book introduces readers to food safety assessment research on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

This book features the best papers presented at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology in 2016.

This book presents the latest findings on biological, epidemiological, and clinical investigations of RNF213, which is thought to be involved in many biological processes and plays a key role in cerebro- and cardiovascular disease .

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities.

This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust.

This edited book focuses on growth and entrepreneurial development in rapidly developing countries in Asia-Pacific region.

This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia.

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India.

This textbook on Environmental Biotechnology not only presents an unbiased overview of the practical biological approaches currently employed to address environmental problems, but also equips readers with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them.

This book addresses the growing problem of multimorbidity in cancer patients and survivors with the focus on how to best integrate the effective cancer care with the care of multiple chronic conditions.

This book brings together current innovative methods and approaches to segmentation and outlines why segmentation is needed to support more effective social marketing program design.

This book brings together the state of the art and current debates in the field of formative research, and examines many of the innovative methods largely overlooked in the available literature.

This book focuses on the development and applications of functional nucleic acid-based detection methods in the context of food safety.

In the context of the continual increase in the global incidence of diabetes, this book focuses on particular aspects of the disease such as the socio-economic burden and the effects on individuals and their families.