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  • The Silent Confrontation: Glimpses of Life in the Kingdom During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    More than 427 photographs were taken by over 29 professional photographers of Saudi Arabia's life features and the accompanying social and behavioral customs during the Coronavirus confrontation. From imposing curfews to all the procedures and measures applied to documenting phenomenal moments during religious seasons, moving to ensure COVID-19 vaccine security, the start of their distribution, ... Read more

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  • Cuidar, controlar, curar

    ensaios históricos sobre saúde e doença na América Latina e Caribe

    Series series História e Saúde
    Traz um conjunto variado de ensaios representativos das atuais - e diversas - tendências historiográficas a respeito dos discursos e das práticas sociais que, em diferentes cenários latino-americanos e caribenhos, organizaram-se em torno de questões relativas à saúde e à doença. A intenção é pôr em evidência aspectos relevantes da experiência histórica dos países quanto a ações individuais e ... Read more

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  • Cartografia de Relações

    A Micropolítica do Trabalho de um Órgão Regional de Saúde

    Este livro investiga se, e como, os trabalhadores de um órgão regional de saúde se consideram trabalhadores da saúde, e os sentidos que dão ao seu trabalho. Métodos: Foi realizado um estudo cartográfico das relações que os trabalhadores de uma Regional de Saúde do Paraná, Brasil, produzem para desenvolver seu trabalho, com permanente análise de implicação da pesquisadora ao longo da pesquisa. ... Read more

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  • Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering

    The European View

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Psychology
    This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. The book is based on the authors' 15 years of ... Read more

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  • Covid-19, Older Adults and the Ageing Society

    COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges in the care of older adults. During the first surge of the pandemic, governments all over the world struggled with high disease severity and increased mortality among older adults.This work documents the impact of the pandemic by collating information from different countries and by synthesizing inputs from several knowledge domains—Sociology, ... Read more

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  • Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders

    Edited by N. Sartorius, R.I.G. Holt, M. Maj ...
    Series series Key Issues in Mental Health
    This publication presents evidence about the magnitude and severe consequences of comorbidity of mental and physical illnesses from a personal and societal perspective. Leading experts address the huge burden of co-morbidity to the affected individual as well as the public health aspects, the costs to society and interaction with factors stemming from the context of socioeconomic developments. The ... Read more

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  • Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter

    Theoretische Perspektiven, empirische Befunde und Praxisansätze

    Dieser Open-Access-Band bietet eine Übersicht disziplinärer Zugänge und aktueller empirischer Befunde zum Wohlbefinden und gesundheitsrelevanten Verhalten von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. Internationale Perspektiven renommierter Experten sowie Beiträge von Akteuren aus verschiedenen Praxisfeldern in Luxemburg ergänzen die Sammlung. Sie machen diesen Band zu einem unverzichtbaren Werk nicht ... Read more

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  • Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa

    Constraints and Opportunities

    This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis of age, gender, ... Read more

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  • Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility

    Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health

    This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being.The influence of humans on climate change has ... Read more

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  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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  • Solidariedade ou Competição? Políticas e sistema de atenção à saúde na Alemanha

    Analisa o sistema de proteção social à saúde – na Alemanha, Seguro Social de Doença. O seguro social implica a segmentação da clientela, assim, a solidariedade é resultado de mecanismos políticos de negociação corporativa, quando são capazes de gerar pactos sociais que reduzam a estratificação. O Estado exerce papel fundamental para a garantia do processo de negociação corporativa, para a ... Read more

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  • Schistosoma mansoni & Esquistossomose

    uma visão multidisciplinar

    Estima-se que haja hoje no país cerca de 2,5 milhões de portadores de esquistossomose mansoni — popularmente conhecida como barriga d’água —, afora mais 25 milhões de brasileiros expostos ao risco de contrair a doença. Esta obra, comemorativa ao centenário da descoberta do Schistosoma mansoni no Brasil pelo pesquisador baiano Manuel Augusto da Silva Pirajá, está sendo considerada a mais completa e ... Read more

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  • Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion.With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a ... Read more

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  • Febre amarela

    a doença e a vacina, uma história inacabada

    Resgata a história da produção da vacina contra a febre amarela, desde 1937, permitindo uma revisão dos ensinamentos de Oswaldo Cruz. Esta obra interessa não só ao leitor estudioso da febre amarela, mas também aos que querem saber mais sobre o desenvolvimento da vacina e dos estudos e estratégias de imunização. Além de rever aspectos técnicos, o livro traz informações sobre os estudos realizados, ... Read more

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  • Fast Facts: Digital Medicine

    Measurement

    Technology is changing how we practice medicine. Sensors and wearables are getting smaller and cheaper, and algorithms are becoming powerful enough to predict medical outcomes. Yet despite rapid advances, healthcare lags behind other industries in truly putting these technologies to use. A major barrier is the cross-disciplinary approach required to create digital tools, a process that requires ... Read more

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  • Desafios do planejamento na construção do SUS

    Este livro é fruto de um árduo processo de pesquisa sobre os desafios do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no século XXI, tempo em que as transformações – na política, na economia, na cultura – acontecem de forma extremamente rápida. Com um olhar crítico, os artigos presentes nesta obra analisam os entraves e desafios do sistema e da gestão pública de saúde no Brasil em suas inúmeras perspectivas, ... Read more

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  • Tobacco Control Policy in the Netherlands

    Between Economy, Public Health, and Ideology

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research
    Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking the Netherlands as ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology and Health Issues (ICOPHI 2022)

    Series Book 66 - Advances in Health Sciences Research
    This is an open access book.We are now heading into the era of society 5.0. The era of society 5.0 was developed by Japanese Government to describe the integration between physical and virtual spaces that can solve social problems. Many things in this era are run based on the concept of internet-based big data technology that will make human life easier. The effect of this era will be felt in ... Read more

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  • Saúde do trabalhador na sociedade brasileira contemporânea

    Apresenta o estado da arte em saúde do trabalhador ao debater questões como a incorporação tecnológica e a globalização dos mercados, assim como a persistência de formas arcaicas de produção, a precarização do trabalho e a exclusão social. O foco é a saúde integral do trabalhador: os autores procuram interpretar a origem das situações seja do ponto de vista tecnológico, econômico, social ou ... Read more

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  • 病毒載量

    COVID-19時代的人類學研究

    Series Book 5 - 社會科學其他
    大流行正當發生之際生命遭逢鉅大危難卻刻不容緩的紀錄COVID-19疫情始於2019年,2020年肆虐全球,造成民眾的健康、生活、經濟以至文化、習俗等層面深遠的影響。我們有必要了解和總結此疫情在全球各地的流行狀況、防治經驗,尤其是不足之處。要總結這些經驗除了從了解世界各地流行情況開始,也需要從各個學科視角進行觀察、研究。本書是國際著名人類學家勒諾爾.曼德森(Lenore Manderson)教授等,在世界衛生組織(WHO)等機構的資助下,於COVID-19疫情期間,組織世界各國45位醫學人類學家和社會學家所進行的全球性調查研究報告。全書的內容不是枯燥乏味的感染率、死亡率等統計數字,而是應用人類學理論和概念,將大流行定位在一個緊密相連卻極其不平等的世界中,反映出傳染疾病疫情壓在民眾,特別是貧窮者、弱勢群體肩上的「重擔」,以及其原因和可能的解決方法。Drawing upon the ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

    This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning – and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation.This transdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • The New Common

    How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society

    This open access book presents the scientific views of some fifty experts on how they believe the COVID-19 pandemic is currently affecting society, and how it will continue to do so in the years to come. Using the concept of a “common” (in the sense of common values, common places, common goods, and common sense), they elaborate on the transition from an Old Common to a New Common. In carefully ... Read more

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  • Childlessness in the Age of Communication

    Deconstructing Silence

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Salutogenesis

    This in-depth survey of salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From ... Read more

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