Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.

The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.

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This book offers a comprehensive study of the complexities of newborn survival in resource-poor regions, using the state of Bihar (India) as a case study.

This book introduces the field of Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) by clarifying its theoretical foundations and the practical approaches that enable the design and production of responsible medical devices, health and social care interventions, digital tools and solutions based on artificial intelligence.

This book interrogates how the so-called "e;Feminine Care"e; industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies.

This book explores the identity work and conflicted perspectives of general practitioner (GP) trainees working in hospitals in the UK.

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

In light of the potential novel applications of neurotechnologies in psychiatry and the current debate on moral bioenhancement, this book outlines the reasons why more conceptual work is needed to inform the scientific and medical community, and society at large, about the implications of moral bioenhancement before a possible, highly hypothetical at this point, broad acceptance, and potential implementation in areas such as psychiatry (e.

This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world.

This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility.

This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the context of China.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

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This book examines the experiences of global healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence.

This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health.

This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare.

Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement.

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

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health behaviour.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia.

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health.

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

This volume analyses the transition of Chinese medicine during the modern era, and the development of product and service niches in selected countries: China, Malaysia, Japan and the Philippines.

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions.

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities.

In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impact of the outbreak in various sectors of development.

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India's revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law.

This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation.

This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies.

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council's program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years.

The book approaches the topic of disability, inclusion and inclusive education in a holistic way including both academic and psycho-social perspectives.

Society has developed so that it accommodates the needs of intertwined people, but a question arises as to which people have been accommodated.

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern Europe.

This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies.

This book presents a collection of research-based, effective, and culturally responsive practices that are used in schools and communities to support and empower families of students with disabilities to be equal partners for schools.

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone.

The book provides multiple perspectives and insights on the area of Inclusion, Equity and Access for people with disabilities and brings together various inclusive effective practices from 21 countries across the world most comprehensively in one book.

This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence.

This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

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.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

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.

La humanidad ha llegado a ser la más poderosa fuerza trasformadora del planeta, con lo cual ha creado un nuevo periodo: el Antropoceno o la "era humana".