Climate Change in an Aging Society is the first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change on those who are old today-and those who will be old in decades to come.
This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data gathered either with or from disabled children and young people, centring their experiences and amplifying their voices, while decentralising non-disabled voices in research about them.
This comprehensive volume offers ideas, examples, and guidance to help coaches develop skills in their coaching practice, specifically in the areas of health and wellbeing as they are experienced by their clients.
As evidenced by the anthrax attacks in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, a pathogen does not recognize geographic or national boundaries, often leading to devastating consequences.
This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of both the key concepts and practical skills required to work in the field of health education and promotion.
Die Migränepatientin erzählt, ihr Neurologe gibt Ratschläge - gemeinsam schreiben sie einen Ratgeber, in dessen Fokus nicht medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Aspekte, sondern die persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Migräne und deren Bewältigung stehen: Die Journalistin Praxedis Kaspar-Schmid berichtet von ihrem Leben, das von schwerer Migräne, aber auch von deren Folgen wie Kopfschmerz bei Medikamentenübergebrauch geprägt war.
Los alimentos de hoy en día, con alto contenido de azúcar y carbohidratos, no sólo nos están haciendo engordar, también nos ponen en riesgo de padecer diabetes, accidentes cerebrovasculares, demencia y cáncer.
Multilingual Crisis Communication is the first book to explore the lived experiences of linguistic minorities in crisis-affected settings in the Global South, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This book highlights the role of vitamins in preventing or reducing the pathogenesis or treatment of infectious viral diseases based on current ongoing research and past work.
This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence.
As the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown, both the scientific community and the general population have expressed a heightened interest in the effect of nutrients on behavior.
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 3rd International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges for a Resilient Future (ICOCRF 2024) held at Dehradun, India.
Lifespan Human Function and Occupation provides allied health students with a thorough and nuanced understanding of human development through a unique multi-dimensional framework, including biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives, which can then be translated into best-practice in their professional careers.
This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, not only detailing how policy-making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.
This book provides a unique knowledge source of the FDA's regulatory processes to anyone interested in the development and approval of biomedical products.
As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread.
Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases examines the evidence of genetic factors that increase susceptibility to a range of complex diseases and describes the approaches taken to identify these genes.
Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of medical disorders that, when occurring together, increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
In 2010, esteemed researchers gathered at a workshop held at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID 19 pandemic, particularly in the early phase, by surveying a sample of countries that are geographically, politically, and culturally diverse, particularly those representing the East and the West.
This book contains the proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Basic Symposium sponsored by the Institute of Food Technologists and the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations.
