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This book synthesizes research about the effects of food insecurity on children, families, and households, emphasizing multiple pathways and variations across developmental contexts. It focuses on emerging new methods that allow for a more refined approach to practice...
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Springer
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2021-10-25
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This handbook examines positive youth development (PYD) in youth and emerging adults from an international perspective. It focuses on large and underrepresented cultural groups across six continents within a strengths-based conception of adolescence that considers all...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-22
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Digitization offers great potential – especially in medicine. Cross-domain and cross-institutional linkage, big data, artificial intelligence and robotics can all help to improve research and care, but they also pose new challenges to all those involved.
This book...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2021-10-15
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This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health.This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects...
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Springer
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2021-10-09
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Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management
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This book examines international perspectives on intimate partner violence (IPV). It highlights the current state of IPV prevention and intervention efforts across countries, including Colombia, Iran, Russia, China, India, Turkey, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Finland,...
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Springer
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2021-09-23
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This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative development within police work known as evidence-based policing. It involves a significant extension and strengthening of links between research and practice and is directed to the task of increasing police...
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Springer
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2021-09-01
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Advances in Preventing and Treating Violence and Aggression
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This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace.
'Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace' is the first book that attempts to put these three critical areas together.This novelty approaches the subject matter by delving into evaluating what...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-30
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This book is useful for administrators of different levels involved in counteracting COVID-19, surveillance professionals, clinicians, researchers specializing in epidemiology, microbiology, and infectious diseases, and politicians / legislators engaged in public health...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-28
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Learn how AI and data science are upending the worlds of biology and medicine In Silico Dreams: How Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology Will Create the Medicines of the Future delivers an illuminating and fresh perspective on the convergence of two powerful...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-07-27
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Universal Design is a process for creating an equitable and sustainable society. It is a concept committed to recognizing and accepting each individual’s potential and characteristics, and promoting the realization of a built environment that does not stigmatize users,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-07-15
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For several years now, both eHealth applications and digitalization have been seen as fundamental to the new era of health informatics and public health. The current pandemic situation has also highlighted the importance of medical informatics for the scientific process...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-07-15
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This book describes the spatial and temporal perspectives on COVID-19 and its impacts and deepens our understanding of human dynamics during and after the global pandemic. It critically examines the role smart city technologies play in shaping our lives in the years to...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-14
Collection :
Human Dynamics in Smart Cities
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Many countries around the world rely on community health workers to provide healthcare to those without immediate access, connecting them to formal health systems, and whilst numerous Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes exist, there is little research published on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-01
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Many countries around the world rely on community health workers to provide healthcare to those without immediate access, connecting them to formal health systems, and whilst numerous Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes exist, there is little research published on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-01
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This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-30
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GeoComputation and Public Health is fundamentally a multi-disciplinary book, which presents an overview and case studies to exemplify numerous methods and solicitations in addressing vectors borne diseases (e.g, Visceral leishmaniasis, Malaria, Filaria)....
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-24
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This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses to the issue. It documents the enduring existence of a rich variety of same-sex practices between men. More critically, it analyses how the denial and social...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-20
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need for the collection of data. Such data cannot be collected or provided without medical informatics, documentation and health data management. Nor can health data be evaluated and converted into a useful tool for...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Aside from the dramatic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the lives of people everywhere, it has also triggered and accelerated some important process changes in healthcare. Digital health has become ever more important, supporting test strategies and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-06-15
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The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident and yet we are reluctant to invest in staying healthy. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good health come at a cost; prevention is not better than cure at any...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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