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  • Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights

    Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and ... Read more

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  • Arts and Health Promotion

    Tools and Bridges for Practice, Research, and Social Transformation

    This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is the first-known text to connect the disparate inter-disciplinary literatures into a coherent volume for health promotion practitioners, researchers, and teachers. It provides a ... Read more

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  • Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century

    Addressing New Public Health Challenges in the Information Ecosystem

    This open access book on infodemic management reviews the current discussions about this evolving area of public health from a variety of perspectives.Infodemic management is an evidence-based practice underpinned by the science of infodemiology that offers guidance to better manage pandemic and epidemic risks and more quickly tackle new and resurgent health threats. Infodemic management has added ... Read more

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  • Controle da tuberculose

    uma proposta de integração ensino-serviço

    Esta coletânea é especialmente voltada para os profissionais que trabalham na rede do SUS – e pode ser somada a uma proposta de educação a distância. Aborda desde um panorama geral da saúde, no país e no mundo, até os aspectos mais técnicos da tuberculose, como diagnóstico, tratamento e prevenção. Segundo a OMS, o Brasil é um dos 22 países com alta carga de tuberculose e onde o enfrentamento da ... Read more

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  • Heilsame Berührung von Körper, Herz und Seele

    Beschwerden lindern, Heilkräfte aktivieren, Lebensenergie stärken - Das ganzheitliche Praxisprogramm

    Entdecke die heilsame Kraft deiner Hände Eine liebevolle Berührung tut einfach gut, aber die heilsame Kraft unserer Hände kann noch weit darüber hinausgehen. In diesem ganzheitlichen Praxisprogramm lernst du Schritt für Schritt, wie du deine ureigenen Heilkräfte aktivierst. Als achtsame Selbstfürsorge oder als Hilfe für Menschen in deinem Umfeld.'Heilsame Berührung' ist eine leicht erlernbare ... Read more

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  • Pontencial da própolis

    Para o desenvolvimento de novas drogas

    O livro foi redigido com a finalidade de apresentar resultados de pesquisas sobre a própolis em áreas em que se pode vislumbrar, em um futuro próximo, uma droga à base deste apiterápico. Nele encontram-se informações sobre a composição química da própolis, suas ações imunomoduladora, antimicrobiana e antitumoral, bem como sobre úlceras, diabetes, alergias, rinites, asma e na área de Odontologia. A ... Read more

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  • Depressione e ansia nelle diverse fasi della vita

    Series series Collana di Pisichiatria Divulgativa
    L’Associazione per la Ricerca sulla Depressione di Torino presenta un’iniziativa consistente nella pubblicazione di una Collana di Psichiatria Divulgativa.Dopo il primo libro,“La cura della depressione: farmaci o psicoterapia” (2011), il secondo,“Il paziente depresso e i suoi familiari” (2012), e il terzo “Riconoscere e curare l'ansia e il panico”, pubblichiamo il quarto “Depressione e ansia nelle ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Salutogenesis

    This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized ... Read more

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  • Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories

    Series Book 7 - Public Health Ethics Analysis
    This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to ... Read more

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  • Healthcare and Disease Burden in Africa

    The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Public Health

    by Ilha Niohuru ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Economics
    This open access book evaluates African healthcare systems from multiple perspectives. By examining empirical data from various African countries, it analyzes the effects of socioeconomic factors such as urbanization, population growth, and education on various health indicators, including the situation of health professionals, patients's decision making, health resource distribution, mortality ... Read more

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  • Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation.This book is useful for ... Read more

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  • Soziale Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten

    Eine neue Perspektive für die Forschung

    In diesem Buch wird die Perspektive der soziologischen, psychologischen und gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Netzwerkforschung für die Erklärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen sozialen und gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten fokussiert.Unterschiedliche theoretische und methodische Zugänge werden vorgestellt, der internationale und der nationale Forschungsstand werden aufgearbeitet und eine Reihe von ... Read more

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  • Decision Science for Future Earth

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Tetsukazu Yahara ...
    This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including ... Read more

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  • Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam

    This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating body ... Read more

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  • Imagining Air

    Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

    Edited by Tatiana Konrad ...
    Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and ... Read more

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  • Promoção da saúde

    a construção social de um conceito em perspectiva comparada

    A crescente necessidade de mudanças profundas na abordagem da saúde e nas práticas de atenção tem gerado intenso debate internacional, convergindo para a proposição de um novo paradigma. Este é baseado na promoção da saúde, a qual defende uma evolução substantiva no modo como são formuladas e implementadas as políticas públicas, sociais e econômicas que influenciam diretamente as condições de ... Read more

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  • Understand Your Anti-Aging Strategy

    With Medications Available Now

    Is Aging on your mind?Do you want answers and an action plan before deadly aging crushes you?Everything that you need for your anti-aging strategy is available now. ... Read more

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  • Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos

    This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the Mays Cancer Center and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.Latinos – the largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group in the United States ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • La actividad física para la salud y su prevención de las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles (ECNT)

    La inactividad física genera múltiples trastornos y alteraciones en la salud que derivan en importantes enfermedades que causan discapacidad y muerte. Algunos de los efectos de la inactividad física son la disminución de fuerza muscular, degeneraciones leves a moderadas de los huesos, artritis, aumento de triglicéridos y colesterol, sobrepeso, obesidad, cardiopatías, diabetes e hipertensión. Una ... Read more

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  • La douleur en mouvement

    Tour à tour symptôme, syndrome ou maladie, la douleur chronique reste un phénomène encore mal élucidé et trop souvent difficile à soulager. On ne parle donc pas d’une douleur mais plutôt de douleurs, non pas d’une stratégie mais bien de stratégies de prise en charge. Actuellement, on ne fait encore que peu de place à des disciplines comme la physiothérapie, l’ergothérapie ou la kinésiologie pour ... Read more

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