Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health
Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations. More than 85% of the world's faecal...
Nanotechnology and Human Health
Nanotechnology in Human Health: Current Research and Future Trends details the various challenges faced in human healthcare settings and how nanotechnology can be used to target and improve outcomes. The book describes the application of nanoparticles in the diagnosis of human diseases, including metabolic diseases, cancer, bacterial infection, organ degeneration and the various targeted, nano-based treatments available. Several chapters look at how microbial biofilms - a key clinical concern - can be mitigated using nanomaterials and nanotechnology. In addition, the book covers how different nanoparticle types can be utilized as therapeutic agents. This book combines materials science concepts and techniques with clinical insights and understanding to provide an interdisciplinary reference for materials scientists, microbiologists, biomedical engineers and clinicians with an interest in nanotechnology.
Epigenetics and Human Health
After first introducing the concept of epigenetics, this handbook and ready reference provides an overview of the main research on epigenetics. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, involving molecular biology, molecular epidemiology and nutriti...
Human Health and Forests
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of...
Health and Human Rights
This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints the sense of imperative that surrounds this relationship. More impo...
Reliability Technology, Human Error, and Quality in Health Care
The effective and interrelated functioning of system reliability technology, human factors, and quality play an important role in the appropriate, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of health care. Simply put, it can save you time, money, and ...
Harmful Cyanobacteria
Several cyanobacterial species can produce powerful toxins that provide a serious threat for water quality, other aquatic organisms, and human health. These harmful cyanobacteria are especially prominent in freshwater ecosystems, and are a major c...
Quality Health Care
Quality Health Care
Health and Human Rights (2nd edition)
'Health and human rights' is an important dimension of international and European human rights and health law. It is multi-disciplinary, engaging scholars and practitioners of public health and medicine, as well as legal scholars and human rights ...
Water Prescription
A guide to how water can prevent and treat disease as well as rejuvenate the body and mind * Shows the role water deficiency plays in a large number of diseases and other health disorders * Explains how to determine the quality and quantity...
Forests, Trees and Human Health
The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budg...
Forests, Trees and Human Health
The link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health is a concern across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budg...
Hormones, Health and Human Potential
Over 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates advocated the personalisation of "nourishment and exercise" as the "safest way to health". He knew that our behaviours influence our health, but he did not know why. This book explains the miss...
Public Health and Human Rights
Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the r...
Public Health and Human Rights
Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the r...
Reproductive Health and Human Rights
The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving health care provision and legal protection for women around the world. This is an authoritative and much-needed introduction to and defence of the concept of reproduct...
Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward critically reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights. The volume incl...
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are c...
Reproductive Health and Human Rights
The concept of reproductive health promises to play a crucial role in improving women's health and rights around the world. It was internationally endorsed by a United Nations conference in 1994, but remains controversial because of the challenge ...
Animal and Human Health and Welfare
Scientists within human and animal science have extensively discussed the philosophy of medicine, but never have both sides communicated on their concepts of health, quality of life and welfare, with each other. This book aims to help clarify the ...
Social Work, Health and Equality
What impact can social work make on inequalities in health? Social Work, Health and Equality opens up a new direction in the practice and theory of social work. Focussing on the profound human suffering which arises from social inequalities in hea...
Human Design & Health
Unlock the Full Potential of Scientific Spirituality and Self-Actualization with Human Design As a Spiritual Seeker and Professional Coach, you know the importance of understanding the unique needs of each individual. Human Design & Health provides a groundbreaking framework for integrating the Human Design system into therapeutic practices. Rooted in Ra Uru Hu's profound teachings and Dr. Eleanor's Scientific research, this book explores how Human Design maps our Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical dimensions. By understanding the specific energy mechanics that drive each person, you can tailor your approach to align with their true nature. With clear, accessible language and practical applications, this primer offers both foundational knowledge and clinical tools that can be immediately applied to your practice. Learn to identify the key elements of a person's Design - Type, Centers, Profiles, and Lines - and integrate all dimensions of the Human Design system to enhance
Quality of Life and Human Difference
This study brings together two important literatures together in the one volume. One concerns the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy. The second concerns ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for ...
Companion Animals in Human Health
Exactly how do animals affect their companion humans' quality of life? The 7th International Conference on Animals, Health, and Quality of Life set out to explore this question. A major result of this quest was Companion Animals in Human Hea...
Drinking Water Quality
This textbook provides a comprehensive review of the problems associated with the supply of drinking water in the developed world. Since the first edition of this book was published, water companies and regulators have been presented with numerous...
Health Care Quality Management
In today s challenging health care environment, health care organizations are faced with improving patient outcomes, redesigning business processes, and executing quality and risk management initiatives. Health Care Quality Management offers an in...
Health Care Quality Management
In todays challenging health care environment, health care organizations are faced with improving patient outcomes, redesigning business processes, and executing quality and risk management initiatives. Health Care Quality Management offers an int...
Waterborne Pathogens
Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa, are the most common and widespread health risk associated with drinking water. Most waterborne pathogens are introduced into drinking water supplies by human or animal faeces...
Pursuing Health Equity in Low Income Countries
Health is one of the most important instruments that enhance human functionings. For that reason, it is reasonable to qualify health and access to it as a moral entitlement of all the citizens. From the moral equality argument it follows that all ...
Social Theory and Human Reality
'This is a smart and compelling book. Difficult ideas are presented in an accessible manner, with plenty of supporting illustrations?Students will enjoy the research material and other supporting material. A definite winner!'- Professor Jay...
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "water wars," shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building. Indeed, water management pla...
Human Infectious Disease and Public Health
Human Infectious Disease and Public Health
Human Genome in Health and Disease
The human genome is a linear sequence of roughly 3 billion bases and information regarding this genome is accumulating at an astonishing rate. Inspired by these advances, The Human Genome in Health and Disease: A Story of Four Letters explores the...
Human Genome in Health and Disease
The human genome is a linear sequence of roughly 3 billion bases and information regarding this genome is accumulating at an astonishing rate. Inspired by these advances, The Human Genome in Health and Disease: A Story of Four Letters explores the...
Global Climate Change and Human Health
Learn more about the impact of global warming and climate change on human health and disease The Second Edition of Global Climate Change and Human Health delivers an accessible and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly accelerating and increasi...