Public health and preventive medicine Books

Dietary Components and Immune Function focuses on immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases as modified by dietary supplement, bioactive foods and...

Handbook of Food Fortification and Health: From Concepts to Public Health Applications Volume 2 represents a multidisciplinary approach to food fortification. This book aims to disseminate important material pertaining to the fortification of foods from...

Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health PromotionDavid V. McQueen, editor A scan of health challenges around the globe readily brings to mind a range of infectious illnesses, from HIV to influenza. Yet chronic non-contagious...

The World Health Organization stated that approximately two-thirds of the world's population lacks adequate access to medical imaging. The scarcity of imaging services in developing regions contributes to a widening disparity of health care and limits...

This newly revised edition contains updated versions of all of the topics that were in the first edition and has been substantially expanded with an additional 5 chapters. Each chapter includes information from the most up-to-date research on how...

Diet quality is a broad term that encapsulates both perceived and actual practices, personal preferences and cultural diversity. Measuring dietary quality can be problematic and includes investigating food types, the number or size of portions or their...

This edited volume is a definitive text on adaptive clinical trial designs from creation and customization to utilization. As this book covers the full spectrum of topics involved in the adaptive designs arena, it will serve as...

Within the last few years, knowledge about vitamins has increased dramatically, resulting in improved understanding of human requirements for many vitamins. This new edition of a bestseller presents comprehensive summaries that analyze the chemical,...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report, "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System," in which it stated that nearly 98,000 people die needlessly every year due to preventable medical mistakes. In 2009, the Consumer's Union...

Il libro ""Ricerche Fisiche Intorno Alla Salubrita Dell������� Aria"" (1775) di Landriani, Marsilio ����� un testo scientifico che si concentra sull'importanza della qualit������ dell'aria per la salute umana. L'autore esamina le propriet������ fisiche...

Biological And Embryological Studies On Formicidae is a book written by Maurice Cole Tanquary in 1912. This book is a comprehensive study of the biology and embryology of ants, specifically the Formicidae family. The author provides detailed information...

Organizations, Communication, and Health focuses on theories and constructs of organizational communication and their relationship to health. The goal of the volume is to offer a current picture of organizational and organizing processes and practices...

Vaccination programmes are of vital importance to public health and are present in virtually every country in the world. By promoting an understanding of the diverse effects of vaccination programmes, this textbook discusses how epidemiologic methods can...

Poor diet and substandard nutrition are underlying causes of many diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Collectively, these ailments are the leading causes of premature death, most of which are preventable. Cooking for Health...

The Treatment Of Typhoid Fever is a medical book written by David Denison Stewart in 1893. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the treatment of typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that was prevalent during the time. The author discusses the...

Essai Sur Les Maladies Des Yeux (1769) est un livre �����crit par Guerin, Jean Joseph, qui explore les diff�����rentes maladies oculaires et leur traitement. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de r�����f�����rence pour les m�����decins et les ophtalmologistes, qui y...

""Dissertation Sur Le Tabac: Et Sur Ses Bons Et Mauvais Effets"" est un livre �����crit en 1787 par Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz. Ce livre se concentre sur le tabac et ses effets sur la sant�����. L'auteur examine les avantages et les inconv�����nients de...

Dive into the depths of history and science with "Bubonic Plague Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide," an all-encompassing exploration of one of the most notorious diseases in human history. From the historical accounts of the plague to the identification...

The Greater Mekong Subregion COVID-19 Response and Recovery Plan 2021-2023 complements the national recovery plans of the GMS countries, which aims to facilitate regional cross-border cooperation.The focus is on human and animal health to prevent the...

Food products are becoming increasingly affected by the use of antibiotics, as the transfer of residual veterinary drugs, antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its genes (ARGs) occurs through unexplained mechanisms,...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected life throughout the world, and dentistry is no exception. Dentistry has already been shown to be a hazardous occupation due to the numerous infectious and health risks associated with it. Over the past year and a...

Seminar paper del año 2018 en eltema Medicina - Epidemiología, Nota: 0, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: La enfermedad celiaca es una enteropatía severa autoinmune, se presenta por el consumo de cereales que contienen gluten en individuos predispuestos a...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Ratgeber - Ernährung, Essen, Trinken, Note: 1,8, , Veranstaltung: DKGD, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ernährung, Entspannung und Stress stehen in einem engen Zusammenhang. Eine Ernährungsumstellung kann zu...

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , language: English, abstract: Tuberculosis is an infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and most of the time affects lung (pulmonary tuberclosis). When it is not treated...

Optimal nutrition is important during pregnancy and lactation for the health of both the mother and infant. Chronic deficiencies of both macronutrients and micronutrients are well established in developing countries. Although in developed countries...

The impact of fat intake on hypercholesterolemia and related atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases has been studied for decades. However, the current evidence base suggests that fatty acids also influences cardiometabolic diseases through other...

Nutrients is planning a Special Issue focusing on beverages and ingestive behavior. This Special Issue will focus on research related to all aspects of beverage consumption and post-ingestive consequences. There continues to be much controversy...

Interest in the study of life in hot environments, both with respect to the inhabiting microorganisms and the enzymes they produce, is currently very high. The biological mechanisms responsible for the resistance to high temperatures are not yet fully...

This Special Issue focuses on recent research on the important emerging and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in South and South East Asia and Northern Australia. This region stretches from Afghanistan in the west to Papua New Guinea in the east, and...

The Special Issue titled Nursing Care for Cancer Patients was led by Prof. Li and was published with 11 papers when it closed. The Second Edition collects all types of study design, including papers reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses,...

In recent times, particularly during the 21st century, there have been significant increases and changes in international migration and resettlement patterns due to factors such as people's ability to travel, ease of communication and technology, and...

Mushroom foraging! Does the term make you feel weak in the knees? Do you get all excited when you see documentaries and YouTube videos of other foragers and wish you could do the same? Does the sight of wild trails fill you with excited anticipation? If...

Confused about what to eat to keep healthy your liver? Are you currently following a Cirrhosis diet or trying to find some Cirrhosis recipes?Are you concerned about the food you'll be allowed to eat and how to keep it interesting?This book has got...

This book integrates the growing clinical research evidence related to the emerging transdisciplinary field of occupational health and wellness. It includes a wide range of important topics, ranging from current conceptual approaches to health and...

This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range...

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both...

From the time questions about the impact of wireless technology on public health were first raised in 1993 through the present, Wireless Technology Research, LLC (WTR) has been the largest independent surveillance and research...

Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis.- Risk Analysis: Goals and Methods.- Hazard Identification.- Exposure Assessment.- Dose-Response Modeling and Risk Characterization.- Human Health Risks from Virginiamycin: A Case Study.- Dynamic Modeling and...

Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans covers those viruses capable of causing disease in man, including monkeypox, smallpox, cowpox, and vaccinia. The coverage of each virus is comprehensive, covering the biology, molecular...

Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk...

Every year, in the United States and the third world combined, 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are circumcised. Whether because of perceived medical, cultural, or religious necessity, most of these parents feel they...

The preparation of this volume began with a conference held at Trier University, approximately thirty years after the publication of the first Belief in a Just World (BJW) manuscript. The location of the conference was...

A review of the literature pertaining to the neurobehavioral pharmacology of abusable drugs, this is the only book to survey each of the eleven classes of addictive drugs from the perspectives of neurological, behavioral,...

There are two main reasons for pursuing research in the Sports Sciences. Firstly, by studying responses to exercise, we learn about the normal function of the tissues and or­ gans whose function allows exercise to be performed...

Each chapter consists of basic statistical theory, simple examples of S-PLUS code, plus more complex examples of S-PLUS code, and exercises. All data sets are taken from genuine medical investigations and will be available on a...

Cancer Precursors is a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary text containing a comprehensive overview of methodological issues associated with the study of pre-cancerous conditions, as well as reviews of the contributions of...

A fundamental statistical framework for the analysis of complex longitudinal data is provided in this book. It provides the first comprehensive description of optimal estimation techniques based on time-dependent data...