This handbook presents the latest information on all aspects of global aging, with a focus on Asia, including policies, age-associated diseases and conditions, health services, long-term care, living arrangements, income and social security, preventing abuse, and the impact of migration on the elderly.
This book provides an overview of the correlation between climate change and public health, closely aligned with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDG-3).
This book addresses the need for statistical knowledge and skills among health professionals and researchers by presenting statistical concepts, methods and models in a health and clinical context, making it distinct from traditional textbooks.
This text informs human services students and practitioners on complex contemporary issues in the human services, public health, and clinical social work fields, allowing them to be more agile and better prepared agents and leaders of change.
Currently, religion is absent or severely underemphasized within the medical humanities, and The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities forges direct engagements between the fields of medical and health humanities, on the one hand, and religious studies and theological studies on the other.
This insightful work uses a critical realist perspective to unpack the colonially informed culture, structures, and mechanisms which exist across global health institutions, offering a vision for radical change through a process of decolonization.
As a follow-up to the author's first book, The Startup Protocol: A Guide for Digital Health Startups to Bypass Pitfalls and Adopt Strategies That Work, this book is a series of case studies about digital health Unicorns.
Health Anxiety and the Quest for Safety critically examines how psychological and sociocultural processes influence anxiety and safety-seeking behaviour concerning perceived health risks in globalised information societies.
As a follow-up to the author's first book, The Startup Protocol: A Guide for Digital Health Startups to Bypass Pitfalls and Adopt Strategies That Work, this book is a series of case studies about digital health Unicorns.
Legume Bioengineering: Balancing Food Demand and Global Climate Change offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing legume productivity and resilience in the face of global food insecurity and climate change.
This text informs human services students and practitioners on complex contemporary issues in the human services, public health, and clinical social work fields, allowing them to be more agile and better prepared agents and leaders of change.
Architectures of Ageing in Place provides curated critical perspectives, from a practice-based research point of view, of buildings that are purpose built and/or refurbished to accommodate housing and care needs of older people ageing in place in high rise/medium rise integrated communities.
Currently, religion is absent or severely underemphasized within the medical humanities, and The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities forges direct engagements between the fields of medical and health humanities, on the one hand, and religious studies and theological studies on the other.
This book explores the intricate landscape of prion diseases, exploring the various methodologies for detecting human and animal prions, emphasizing both current techniques and those under development, as well as emerging techniques and methodologies for biomarker detection in prion diseases, paving the way for improved diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances has been the accepted source in nutrient allowances for healthy people.
In clinical trials, monitoring accumulating data at regular intervals is essential for balancing ethical and financial considerations against scientific rigor.
En el momento donde se hace necesario migrar a la virtualidad, surge como una oportunidad de innovacion en el laboratorio la creacion de un manual no solo de practicas academicas, relacionadas con fundamentos generales de microbiologia, sino una publicacion que implementa metodologias para la solucion de casos mediante softwares o simuladores virtuales, que complementan el aprendizaje basado en problemas a la vez que promueve el uso de una segunda lengua.
Discover the latest science on fibromyalgia and get proven, practical steps to recover your quality of life Fibromyalgia For Dummies helps you understand the symptoms and causes of this challenging disease and guides you through steps you can take to reduce or eliminate your symptoms, decreasing your pain and fibro fog to manageable control.
Relatable stories and psychological insights on how childhood experiences shape us, and how we can reclaim ownership over our lives in the wake of trauma Daughters who have experienced parental abuse, neglect, separation, and other traumas often find themselves in need of support later in life.
A compassionate, thorough guide to this increasingly common gluten-related condition Celiac Disease For Dummies is the ultimate reference for living with celiac disease, an autoimmune digestive disorder characterized by a reaction to foods containing gluten.
This book documents the purpose and history of the African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) with the aim to showcase how to develop useful research with, for, and by persons with disabilities within the African context and beyond.
This book provides an historical and philosophical overview of Western medicine along with commentary about how past principles affect current problems in biomedicine like genetic engineering, transhumanism, and a commitment to environmentalism.
This book documents the purpose and history of the African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) with the aim to showcase how to develop useful research with, for, and by persons with disabilities within the African context and beyond.
Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine have been increasingly relevant in view of the challenges that new health technologies and the digital world pose to truly person-centered healthcare.
This book provides an historical and philosophical overview of Western medicine along with commentary about how past principles affect current problems in biomedicine like genetic engineering, transhumanism, and a commitment to environmentalism.
The development of minimally invasive approaches to screen for multiple tumor types at one time could potentially improve health outcomes; however, the clinical utility of multicancer detection (MCD) testing has yet to be established.
