Environmental pollution control in relation to development (Technical Report)
Vier Milliarden Menschen werden von den Rechtssystemen ihrer Lander nicht vor Gewalt geschutzt. Polizeigewalt, Raub, Vergewaltigung und Menschenhandel bedrohen taglich das Leben der AErmsten. Neuen Studien zufolge furchten sie willkurliche Gewalt sogar starker als Wasser-, Nahrungs- und Medikamentenmangel. Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit hat uber viele Jahre einen wichtigen Faktor ubersehen: Wenn Menschen, die von weniger als zwei Dollar am Tag uberleben mussen, keinen Zugang zu...
The world's cities are choking on pollution from traffic and industry. With the health of over 1.6 billion people under threat, poor urban air quality is fast becoming one of them most pressing environmental problems of our times. Smog Alert examines the causes and scale of urban air pollution, identifying who is most at risk, and what particular health risks various pollutants pose. It then considers an effective framework for air quality management, so that national and city authorities can c...
Selected radionuclides (Environmental Health Criteria)
Physical Fitness and Nutrition during Growth (Medicine and Sport Science, #43)
This volume presents a review of current research on the relationships between dietary intake, growth, physical activity and exercise in different environments throughout the world, and their impact on health and physical fitness. The combined influence of heredity and environment on the potential for growth and functional development has been hotly debated for many years. Amongst the more critical environmental factors commonly considered are nutrition, physical activity and motor stimulation....
We want to be healthy. We want to be lean. And we want to lose that annoying fat around our bellies. Now we can! The Lose Your Belly Diet is built around a very clear, research-based concept: eating food that nourishes and protects the microbes in your gut paves the way for weight loss and a slimmer middle. Most importantly, having great gut health is linked to good health and wellbeing throughout your body.Scientists in this rapidly growing field are finding connections between the gut microbio...
Behavior is hard to change, especially when habits are well-ingrained into our daily lives and lifestyle. Yet, many people are desperate to change their behaviors, especially when it comes to health-related habits that can contribute to significant health problems. Health Behavior Change: Proven Strategies for a Longer and Healthier Life presents readers with a wide variety of evidence-based best practices in cognitive behavioral therapy that can help individuals change their health behaviors f...
The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions. In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream audience to his theory of “appropriate technology”: the belief that international development projects in the Global South were most sustainable when they were small-scale, decentralized, and balanced between the tr...
Don't Eat This If You're Taking That
by Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom and John Fernstrom
Winner of the 2018 Gold National Health Information Award and 2018 APEX Merit Award! NBC Today show nutrition and diet guru Madelyn Fernstrom and award-winning neuroscientist and pharmacologist John Fernstrom partnering with AARP present the ultimate guide to food and medicine interaction. Millions of Americans take prescription drugs to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or other conditions. But beware: The foods you eat and the medications you take could be working against...
Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals,...