Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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Existen diferentes visiones acerca de cómo una persona con consumo problemático debe encarar una vía de recuperación.

This volume deals with the re-emergence of the drug problem in China in the reform era and the ways in which the authorities deal with it.

Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop

With contributions from an international team of leading researchers, the book pulls together updated research results in the area of HIV/AIDS modeling to provide readers with the latest information in the field.

This is the first book that analyzes tobacco control policies in China from the perspectives of economics and health.

State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chvezfor a revealing description of how people's lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

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

This book discusses systematically treatment on the development of stochastic, statistical and state space models of the HIV epidemic and of HIV pathogenesis in HIV-infected individuals, and presents the applications of these models.

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.

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

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.