"A collaboration between a traditionally trained physician and a medical intuitive, The Creation of Health illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness. It describes the role that emotional disturbances play in the most common diseases and a…
"Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion introduces readers to common theories from behavioral and social sciences that are being used in health education and promotion today. With its accessible language and emphasis on practical application, this text …
"Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion introduces readers to common theories from behavioral and social sciences that are being used in health education and promotion today. With its accessible language and emphasis on practical application, this text …
The two volume set LNCS 9043 and 9044 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2015, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2015. The 135 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 2…
Offers a new approach to a lifetime of healthy eating, discussing problems with the USDA's Food Pyramid, the difficulties with conventional nutritional wisdom, and key foods that help prevent cancer, heart disease, and other ailments.
This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time. Drawing from historical and discursive institutionalism, the explanatory framewor…
Older Women and Well-Being: A Global Perspective
This book provides deep insights into concerns related to the well-being in older women across the globe. Written by experts in the field, it explores social roles, health, quality of life/well-being, as well as concerns related to abuse and neglect, impacting the health of olde…
"A smart, innovative, and robust collection that offers a unique and important contribution to Motherhood Studies in its emphasis on trauma [...] an important and emergent subfield of motherhood studies and one yet to be represented or developed through an edited collection." -A…
This book discusses how various social marketing campaigns have taken up and had an impact on important aspects of quality of life across the world. The chapters bring up case studies from different regions, showing how successful social marketing campaigns have been instrumenta…