Dear II (3)
In a world where mental health challenges continue to rise, I believe it is essential to shed light on the power of personal narrative in overcoming stigma and fostering healing. As a social worker, an expert in behavioral health, and mental health advocate, I have witnessed firsthand the profound impact of sharing our stories. This book explores the transformative journey of battling mental illness through faith, professional support, and the unwavering embrace of family and friends. I aim to offer a beacon of hope to individuals facing similar struggles, particularly those who feel isolated or ashamed. Drawing from my own experiences, I know that mental illness is not a barrier to leading a fulfilling life. It is my firm belief that by opening up about our challenges, we not only empower ourselves but also create a supportive community where healing can thrive. I share my own experience with depression, offering readers practical insights and heartfelt encouragement to embrace their own stories. I am deeply passionate about the potential of storytelling to ignite change and foster connection. Through Dear II: For Amaadi, I hope to inspire readers to embrace their own narratives and to find solace in the shared journey toward healing. Dear II: For Amaadi will appeal to readers in so many words.
Women’s Health and Corporate Marketing
This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.Written by scholars and activists from a range of disciplines, including law, sociology, and the health sciences, the book spotlights a range of products that have had a damaging impact on women's health, laying bare the values and assumptions engrained within the marketing campaigns that promoted them. Examples include the advertisement of household and personal care products that expose users to toxic chemicals, empowerment messaging to persuade women to use tobacco products in low- and middle-income countries, and the deceptive marketing of benzodiazepines and opioids that disproportionately impacts women and their families.A powerful critique of the unethical and paternalistic approach of some corporations, this book will find readers among students taking courses in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender Studies, Sociology, and beyond, as well as interested professionals and lay readers.
Policing Patients
A book that takes you inside the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patients Doctors and pharmacists make critical decisions every day about whether to dispense opioids that alleviate pain but fuel addiction. Faced with a drug crisis that has already claimed more than a million lives, legislatures, courts, and policymakers have enlisted the help of technology in the hopes of curtailing prescriptions and preventing deaths. This book reveals how this "Trojan horse" technology embeds the logics of surveillance in the practice of medicine, forcing care providers to police their patients while undermining public trust and doing untold damage to those at risk. Elizabeth Chiarello draws on hundreds of in-depth interviews with physicians, pharmacists, and enforcement agents across the United States to take readers to the frontlines of the opioid crisis, where medical providers must make difficult choices between treating and punishing the people in their care. States now employ prescription drug monitoring programs capable of tracking all controlled substances within a state and across state lines. Chiarello describes how the reliance on these databases blurs the line between medicine and criminal justice and pits pain sufferers against people with substance-use disorders in a zero-sum game. Shedding critical light on this brave new world of healthcare, Policing Patients urges medical providers to reaffirm their roles as healers and proposes invaluable policy solutions centered on treatment, prevention, and harm reduction.
Insights into Antibiotics in Human, Animal, and Agriculture
This Special Issue assembles a set of fifteen articles, consisting of one review and fourteen research articles. The review by Liang S. and colleagues covers the application of bacteriophage therapy. The 14 research articles included (1) methodologies and techniques to detect AMR organisms, such as VRE by Saenhom N et al. and carbapenemase-producing Eterobacterales by Hatrongjit R. et al.; (2) characterization of AMR from patients, foods, and the environment, such as by Yinsai et al., Li R. et al., Kamal Hossain M., et al., Kansaen R., et al., Tabut et al., Lopes E.S. et al., and Kumar Rout A. et al., respectively; (3) antibiotics residue management approached, such as by Chokejaroenrat et al. and Sakulthaew et al., and (4) medical care of AMR patients and carriage, such as by Ngamprasertchai T et al. and Miranda-Novales et al. Finally, on behalf of the guest editors of the Special Issue, we wish to thank the authors for their contributions and for their commitment to improving their work, the reviewers for investing time and effort into analysing and providing valuable comments and corrections, and the editorial staff for managing the review and publication process efficiently and thoroughly. We hope that these articles will provide in-depth research results, advance knowledge, impact the scientific community, and motivate researchers to pursue their scientific goals.
Veterinary Medical Education
Veterinarians are valued and respected professional figures. Veterinary research transcends species boundaries and includes the study of both spontaneously occurring and experimentally induced models of both human and animal diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the One Health program, and this adaptive and responsive approach should be implemented in veterinary medical education. These fundamental changes in the roles, responsibilities, and spectrum of activities of veterinary professionals require equal changes, improvements, and adaptations to veterinary science and medical education training programs. These modifications may include, for instance, increasing the participation of veterinary professionals in multidisciplinary human medicine teaching, training, and research teams (i.e., human anatomy, physiology, or biology, among others). Significantly, recent scientific and technological breakthroughs (i.e., RNA-based vaccines, improved molecular diagnostic tools (PCRs), innovative ICTs applied to health assessment and research, etc.) have been seen to influence current teaching and training programs in key, modern, and innovative veterinary colleges and universities.
Until We’re Seen
Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. "And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York," Governor Andrew Cuomo trumpeted on Labor Day 2020. But what if those heroes, those essential workers and their families, wrote the book themselves? In Until We're Seen, the heroes write their own stories. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We're Seen chronicles COVID-19's devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts. Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were able to keep their jobs, they took subways and buses, and they worked. They drove delivery trucks, worked in private homes, cooked food in restaurants for people to pick up, worked as EMTs, and did construction. They couldn't escape to second homes; if anything, more people moved in, as families were forced to consolidate to save money. Together, the accounts in this book show that the COVID-19 pandemic did discriminate, following the race and class fissures endemic to US society. But if these are tales of hardship, they are also love stories--of students' families, biological and chosen--and of the deep resolve, mundane carework, and herculean efforts such love entails. Recounting 2020-2022 through the experiences of predominantly young, working-class immigrants and people of color living in the first two major US COVID-19 epicenters, Until We're Seen spotlights previously untold stories of the pandemic in New York, Los Angeles, and the nation as a whole.
Until We’re Seen
Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. "And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York," Governor Andrew Cuomo trumpeted on Labor Day 2020. But what if those heroes, those essential workers and their families, wrote the book themselves? In Until We're Seen, the heroes write their own stories. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We're Seen chronicles COVID-19's devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts. Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were able to keep their jobs, they took subways and buses, and they worked. They drove delivery trucks, worked in private homes, cooked food in restaurants for people to pick up, worked as EMTs, and did construction. They couldn't escape to second homes; if anything, more people moved in, as families were forced to consolidate to save money. Together, the accounts in this book show that the COVID-19 pandemic did discriminate, following the race and class fissures endemic to US society. But if these are tales of hardship, they are also love stories--of students' families, biological and chosen--and of the deep resolve, mundane carework, and herculean efforts such love entails. Recounting 2020-2022 through the experiences of predominantly young, working-class immigrants and people of color living in the first two major US COVID-19 epicenters, Until We're Seen spotlights previously untold stories of the pandemic in New York, Los Angeles, and the nation as a whole.
Dear II
In a world where mental health challenges continue to rise, I believe it is essential to shed light on the power of personal narrative in overcoming stigma and fostering healing. As a social worker, an expert in behavioral health, and mental health advocate, I have witnessed firsthand the profound impact of sharing our stories. This book explores the transformative journey of battling mental illness through faith, professional support, and the unwavering embrace of family and friends. I aim to offer a beacon of hope to individuals facing similar struggles, particularly those who feel isolated or ashamed. Drawing from my own experiences, I know that mental illness is not a barrier to leading a fulfilling life. It is my firm belief that by opening up about our challenges, we not only empower ourselves but also create a supportive community where healing can thrive. I share my own experience with depression, offering readers practical insights and heartfelt encouragement to embrace their own stories. I am deeply passionate about the potential of storytelling to ignite change and foster connection. Through Dear II: For Amaadi, I hope to inspire readers to embrace their own narratives and to find solace in the shared journey toward healing. Dear II: For Amaadi will appeal to readers in so many words.
Seeking out SDGs in Dialysis Medicine
The theme of the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy was "Seeking out SDGs in Dialysis Medicine". SDGs, short for Sustainable Development Goals, encapsulate global objectives for sustainable development. This concept should be put into practice in the field of dialysis medicine, and we believe this Annual Meeting not only identified the essential elements for sustainable goals in dialysis care but also established a clear path towards their realization.In this Special Issue Reprint, we have curated a selection of papers presented during the conference. These papers cover critical topics, such as cardiovascular complications, renal anemia, CKD-MBD, diabetes and nutrition, frailty and sarcopenia, rehabilitation, reactive fibrosis, and environmental concerns. Our hope is that the insights and findings presented in this Special Issue Reprint will bring us significantly closer to the answers we seek.
Antibiotic Residues, Antimicrobial Resistance and Intervention Strategies of Foodborne Pathogens
Food products are becoming increasingly affected by the use of antibiotics, as the transfer of residual veterinary drugs, antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its genes (ARGs) occurs through unexplained mechanisms, representing a public health threat. As part of the framework proposed by One Health, it is essential to include information on animal and food chain pathogens in AMR surveillance programs, since human and animal health are interconnected. Therefore, this Special Issue will pay specific attention to human, animal, plant, food, and environment interfaces, and will try to explore intervention strategies against foodborne pathogens. Furthermore, it will characterize the variation in the composition of a healthy human gut microbiome in correlation with antibiotic usage and yoghurt consumption. The Special Issue focus on intervention strategies and food safety in light of antibiotic usage in animal and plants, and discuss ARB and ARG in further detail.
Management of Venous and Arterial Thrombosis
This reprint focuses on research on arterial and venous thromboembolic complications. The authors provide up-to-date information about the pathogenesis, risk stratification, diagnostics and treatment of various forms of thromboembolism including venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, cerebral sinus thrombosis, splanchnic thrombosis, ischemic stroke, acute coronary syndrome and pregnancy loss. Additionally, they included the advances of such management in specific populations, such as the patients with endocrine disorders, cancer or COVID-19.
Kinase Inhibitor for Cancer Therapy
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, yet considerable efforts are still required to make this pathology curable. Despite the limits of available approaches, kinase inhibitors have marked a turning point in the treatment of different types of tumors. This class of compounds is the first oral targeted therapy approved for neoplasia, and about 30 compounds have entered the market in the last five years. Kinase inhibitors include small molecules and monoclonal antibodies and are endowed with fewer side effects than classical antitumor agents. The potential for application of this class of drugs is substantial, and this Special Issue focuses on the discovery and development of kinase inhibitors in terms of in silico studies, synthesis and identification of new compounds, drug delivery, formulation studies, and biological and pharmacokinetic evaluation.
Live Forever?
Time wants you dead. Not just you, but your friends, family, pets - everyone you've ever met... 'A beautifully written book about life and death: busts myths, explores the stories of science and history, and ultimately is rich and uplifting.' Dr Adam Rutherford With over 17,000 known diseases affecting humans, and countless poisons, carcinogens and toxins in our environment, it's a miracle that our bodies manage to keep us alive. And that is, of course, if they don't betray us themselves, whether through cancers or autoimmune conditions. Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing 'life-extending' diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them - and ultimately live longer, healthier lives. *** 'I heartily recommend this deep dive into wellness... It turns out that none of us are getting out of here alive, but John has bravely put his mind and body on the line to discover the secrets of staying healthy and happy as we get older. A funny, fascinating and educative book.' Ben Willbond, co-creator of Ghosts 'The idea that a book about death and dying could be a delightful read seems ridiculous, and yet John Tregoning has pulled off this trick with humour, flair and elegance.' Nessa Carey, author of The Epigenetics Revolution 'An enjoyable and entertaining mixture of scientific facts about ageing and completely unscientific self-experimentation... recognizing that although none of us will live forever, there are ways we can improve our chances of living well while we are still around.' Dame Sarah Gilbert
Neglected Tropical Diseases - Unsolved Debts for the One Health Approach
Despite enormous technical and scientific advances in medicine, neglected tropical diseases continue to be a major challenge in many regions of the world. As a result, the health systems of developing countries are overwhelmed by a double burden of disease, one represented by common health problems and another represented by these diseases. This situation generates wear and tear in all system components, making it ineffective, but also causes the gaps in health to become increasingly larger. This book provides general information on the problem of neglected tropical diseases. It is a current and updated reference to the problem in question that provides examples of the way in which health systems deal with neglected tropical diseases by seeking innovative solutions.
Rx for Survival
A New York Times reporter's eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseases We face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world's leading nations now have the means to win the fight against "the coming plague"--but they must act quickly or face grave consequences. Based on firsthand visits to disease hot spots around the world and in-depth interviews with leading researchers and other medical pioneers working on the ground, who are the major forces pushing for a coordinated world campaign, Hilts tells the inspiring stories of remarkably simple but powerful new approaches that are leading to astonishing success.
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI), which is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, is having a growing impact on healthcare. Via AI, researchers can provide new approaches to merge, analyze, and process complex "big data" and gain more actionable insights, understanding, and knowledge at an individual and population level. Medical staff can be helped by AI-assisted clinical decision support (CDS), i.e., machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models that analyze large medical datasets. They do this by summarizing radiology and pathology reports by means of natural language processing (NLP), automating repetitive but time-consuming tasks, and much more. Patients can talk to chatbots who have access to all medical knowledge in the world, including the patient's medical history, and provide personalized advice. This Special Issue intends to show some examples of how AI impacts healthcare, with some discussion on potential future developments as well as challenges. Since this Special Issue contains papers from 2023 and 2024, the era of Generative AI (GenAI), naturally there are papers related to ChatGPT and chatbots. There are also papers on prediction modeling in primary care, polychronic conditions, and heart disease. Other papers focus on the classification of colon cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Finally, this Special Issue also includes papers on orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning, anxiety treatment, and explainable AI (XAI).
Health and Social Care Policy
The development of health and social care policy is crucial for ensuring the welfare of individuals and communities. It involves a complex interplay of political, economic, social, and ethical factors. It addresses the social determinants that impact health outcomes and seeks to promote equity in healthcare delivery. Health and social care policy aims to address inequalities and improve access to quality care for all individuals. It also focuses on integrating health and social care services to provide holistic support for individuals with complex needs, aiming to improve coordination and communication between healthcare providers and social care professionals to ensure comprehensive and tailored support for individuals. Therefore, it requires careful consideration and collaboration among various stakeholders. Policymakers must take into account the diverse needs of the population and prioritize the allocation of resources effectively. This requires a thorough understanding of epidemiological data and tendencies. It also necessitates collaboration with healthcare professionals and stakeholders to ensure that policies are rooted in best practices, meet the needs of the population, are responsive to emerging health challenges, and adapt to policies accordingly.
Managing Global Health Projects in Low and Middle-Income Countries
With over 30 years of experience in global health programming and teaching, the author offers practical and insightful guidance in this unique book for managing global health projects in resource-constrained settings.
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Transforming Precision Medicine
Precision medicine is reshaping therapeutic approaches to cater to the unique needs of individual patients. This transformation is made possible through the integration of digital health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), which work together to enhance precision, efficiency, and accessibility in personalized care. This reprint, "Transforming Precision Medicine: The Intersection of Digital Health and AI," features 21 contributions across various categories, highlighting the advancements in healthcare and the impact of merging digital health and AI in shaping the future of medicine.
Pharmacy Practice and Administration 2.0
This Special Issue delves into the ever-evolving realm of pharmacy practice and administration. It includes rigorously peer-reviewed review articles and original research papers that assess current practices, explore advancements in medication management, discuss developments in therapeutics, and present pharmaceutical science research aimed at enhancing both practice and administration, including aspects of social and administrative pharmacy.
Trace Metals and Infectious Diseases
Experts explore the influence of trace metals on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Many parts of the world in which common infectious diseases are endemic also have the highest prevalence of trace metal deficiencies or rising rates of trace metal pollution. Infectious diseases can increase human susceptibility to adverse effects of metal exposure (at suboptimal or toxic levels), and metal excess or deficiency can increase the incidence or severity of infectious diseases. The co-clustering of major infectious diseases with trace metal deficiency or toxicity has created a complex web of interactions with serious but poorly understood health repercussions, yet has been largely overlooked in animal and human studies. This book focuses on the distribution, trafficking, fate, and effects of trace metals in biological systems. Its goal is to enhance our understanding of the relationships between homeostatic mechanisms of trace metals and the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Drawing on expertise from a range of fields, the book offers a comprehensive review of current knowledge on vertebrate metal-withholding mechanisms and the strategies employed by different microbes to avoid starvation (or poisoning). Chapters summarize current, state-of-the-art techniques for investigating pathogen-metal interactions and highlight open question to guide future research. The book makes clear that improving knowledge in this area will be instrumental to the development of novel therapeutic measures against infectious diseases. ContributorsM. Leigh Ackland, Vahid Fa Andisi, Angele L. Arrieta, Michael A. Bachman, J. Sabine Becker, Robert E. Black, Julia Bornhorst, Sascha Brunke, Joseph A. Caruso, Jennifer S. Cavet, Anson C. K. Chan, Christopher H. Contag, Heran Darwin, George V. Dedoussis, Rodney R. Dietert, Victor J. DiRita, Carol A. Fierke, Tamara Garcia-Barrera, David P. Giedroc, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, James A. Imlay, Marek J. Kobylarz, Joseph Lemire, Wenwen Liu, Slade A. Loutet, Wolfgang Maret, Andreas Matusch, Trevor F. Moraes, Michael E. P. Murphy, Maribel Navarro, Jerome O. Nriagu, Ana-Maria Oros-Peusquens, Elisabeth G. Pacyna, Jozef M. Pacyna, Robert D. Perry, John M. Pettifor, Stephanie Pfaffen, Dieter Rehder, Lothar Rink, Anthony B. Schryvers, Ellen K. Silbergeld, Eric P. Skaar, Miguel C. P. Soares, Kyrre Sundseth, Dennis J. Thiele, Richard B. Thompson, Meghan M. Verstraete, Gonzalo Visbal, Fudi Wang, Mian Wang, Thomas J. Webster, Jeffrey N. Weiser, G羹nter Weiss, Inga Wessels, Bin Ye, Judith T. Zelikoff, Lihong Zhang
Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medical Imaging
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has propelled significant advancements in clinical medical imaging, offering unprecedented accuracy and efficiency in diagnostic procedures and treatment strategies. This transformative shift has permeated every sector of medical imaging, from traditional organ diagnostics to the dynamic realms of digital pathology and dermatology, where AI acts as a catalyst for innovation and progress. Now, consolidated into a reprint, the Special Issue titled "Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medical Imaging" comprises 14 comprehensive contributions, ranging from insightful editorials to cutting-edge scientific articles, reviews, and commentaries.
Environmental Health Literacy Update - New Evidence, Methodologies and Perspectives
Authored by contributors from diverse backgrounds, this book compiles new evidence, methodologies, and perspectives to redefine the environmental health literacy paradigm, aiming to enhance the well-being of current and future generations. Explore critical topics, from the impact of plastics on child health to the significance of environmental studies on microplastic pollution. The exploration extends to using new online databases to identify environmental justice issues and intriguing studies focused on emerging countries, covering topics such as air quality in hospitals, communicable diseases, and urban waste challenges. The journey culminates in a thought-provoking perspective chapter applying the groundbreaking Affordance-based Reverse Systems Engineering approach, adding a unique dimension to the book's overarching theme. This book is not merely a collection of insights; it is a manifesto for a healthier and more sustainable world.
The 10th Anniversary of Healthcare-TeleHealth and Digital Healthcare
The TeleHealth and digital healthcare domains have undergone a remarkable evolution, characterized by groundbreaking advancements and transformative innovations. This reprint explores the continuous evolution of digitization processes, from mobile to fixed technologies, and the pivotal role of standardization and integration within the health domain in facilitating these advancements. Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a significant catalyst, propelling these fields forward at an unprecedented pace and fostering the rapid growth of existing technologies while exploring new applications. Leveraging emerging technologies such as robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence, TeleHealth and digital healthcare have expanded their scope and impact, with various assistive technologies further enhancing their capabilities. This reprint, introduced in recognition of the 10th anniversary of Healthcare, offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of affairs, established experiences, future prospects, and persisting challenges in this dynamic field. Featuring 26 contributions from a diverse community of authors, including editorials, scientific articles, reviews, perspectives, and systematic reviews, this reprint invites readers to explore the diverse perspectives, insights, and innovations shaping the future of healthcare through technology.
Health Insurance Across Worldwide Health Systems
Health insurance is the mechanism used to respond to uncertainty and risk aversion to illness. Health insurance, whether private, public, or mixed, serves as the main structural foundation for health systems across countries. Its objectives are to minimize the financial burden of medical expenses on people and to enhance population health. Globally, there is a great diversity of health systems and even greater variation among them. There are substantial differences in health systems and health insurance between low- and middle-income nations. The primary explanation for this could be the disparities in the resources available to fund the health system. High-income countries have the financing ability to fund the provision of health care, whereas low- and medium-income countries have a harder time funding health care. Another challenge health systems face nowadays is the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: healthy lives and promoting well-being for all. To create resilient and sustainable health systems that guarantee healthy lives and foster well-being for people of all ages, many countries are redesigning their healthcare systems by improving financing, access, and coverage. This book discusses these issues in different health systems around the world, in low-, middle-, and high-income countries.
Recent Advances in Deep Learning and Medical Imaging for Cancer Treatment
This reprint includes a collection of recent articles on the identification, staging, diagnosis, and classification of malignant biliary structures, leukemia, bladder cancer, colorectal and osteosarcoma cancer, oral cancer, breast cancer, lung nodules, liver tumors, pulmonary diseases, skin cancer, metabolic tumor, and laryngeal carcinoma. It also includes items on the use of computer-aided, deep learning, and medical imaging-based cancer detection and diagnosis.
Systems Thinking and Models in Public Health
Systems thinking and modeling have been essential approaches to identifying the drivers of health outcomes and analyzing their complex interrelationships, paving the way to interventions that improve outcomes while minimizing unintended consequences. These methods support interdisciplinary teams in representing and navigating complex systems, thus asking essential 'what-if' questions and serving numerous other goals, from guiding data collection efforts to comparing the perspectives of stakeholders or validating theories. This volume features methodological innovations and applications for several determinants and key global health priority areas.Priority determinants include, but are not limited to, social determinants (e.g., health inequalities), behavioral factors and facets of the healthcare system. Systems thinking and modeling can shed light on how such determinants ultimately shape health outcomes and/or the cost-effectiveness of an intervention. This volume covers several determinants, collectively providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges and applications of systems thinking to public health.This volume will benefit researchers in the fields of public health, systems thinking or modeling. The content is accessible to early-career researchers, such as graduate students, who may choose specific chapters within their areas of interest as part of identifying open challenges to inspire their own research.
Shifting the Therapeutic Paradigm for Children with Neuromotor Disabilities to Maximizing Development
The United Nations Convention on the Rights to Children states that "Every child with a disability should enjoy the best possible life in society. Governments should remove all obstacles for children with disabilities to become independent and to participate actively in the community." This Special Issue sought to address this call by challenging historical legacy that surround pediatric rehabilitation. It focused on neuromotor disabilities and was a collection of publications from authors who use science to seek understanding about neuromotor disabilities with a hope of improving the lives of all children with such diagnoses that stem from etiologies such as cerebral palsy, stroke, hypoxic injuries, and traumatic brain injuries. This Special Issue included 13 original research articles investigating parental information, strengthening surgical outcomes, the development of unimanual and bimanual abilities, factors influencing NICU services, the achievement of goals, and novel therapeutic frameworks to guide the therapeutic process. It also included two perspective pieces regarding the importance of play in early childhood development and the importance of life-long fitness for individuals with disabilities.
The Digestive System in the Era of COVID-19
In the last few years, the scientific world has been forced to find ways to manage the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its many effects. Even though COVID-19 was first considered a respiratory disease, it is now identified as a systematic disease. It is common for SARS-CoV-2 to also infect the digestive system. This type of infection in patients with COVID-19 has a wide symptom range. The aim of this reprint is to evaluate and discuss the optimal management of emergency surgeries in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and co-infections. Furthermore, this reprint refers to rare conditions of the digestive system and emphasizes the importance of considering these entities in the differential diagnosis. Awareness of diagnostic imaging hallmarks is crucial to optimize the management of these patients. In this reprint, we discuss the risk of new-onset liver injuries due to COVID-19 in preexisting hepatic conditions, their prognosis, severity and outcome, as well as the immunosuppressant treatments administered for COVID-19 and the possibility of reactivation of the hepatic virus. Moreover, we refer to the drugs used during therapy of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, which have adverse side-effects of drug-induced liver injury-DILI. Finally, this reprint punctuates the importance of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in chronic digestive diseases.
Eating Disorders and Addictive Behaviors
Eating disorders (EDs) are psychological conditions that have a significant impact on physical health (e.g., gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular) and psychological well-being (e.g., relationships with others, personal growth, and autonomy). The most common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These three conditions cause clinical impairment in different areas of functioning and share an excessive focus on weight and body image, leading to dangerous eating styles that affect the body's ability to obtain adequate nutrition. Behavioral addictions (BAs) are non-substance-related addictions characterized by an individual's incapacity to resist impulses toward rewarding stimuli despite the adverse consequences. Aside from gambling and gaming disorders (the two most frequent conditions within the spectrum of BAs), other maladaptive and uncontrolled behaviors include compulsive sexual behaviors, compulsive buying, and kleptomania. The etiology of EDs and BAs comprises a complex network of biological, psychological, and contextual social factors. The onset of these conditions is usually during school age and adolescence; the progression of these disorders occurs throughout the lifespan. Diverse phenotypes have been identified according to ED and BA subtypes, and it has been observed that the physio-pathological mechanisms underlying each behavioral profile can play a role in the treatment outcomes.
The Handbook of Health Behavior Change
Now in its 6th edition, The Handbook of Health Behavior Change continues to serve as the premier practical textbook for students, researchers, and health professionals in public health, health promotion, preventive and behavioral medicine, nursing, health communication, population health, and the behavioral sciences. It presents a foundational review of key theories, methods, and intervention strategies they will need to be both thoughtful and effective in promoting positive health behavior change. The book examines the complex challenges of improving health behavior in society including the upstream systems, economic, environmental, social, cultural and policy factors at play, as well as the interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviors that lead to disparate health outcomes among individuals and populations. Integrated throughout are applied case studies and real-world examples focusing on the importance of health equity considerations for health behavior change and how to apply an equity lens to conducting research, designing, and implementing programs. The 6th edition has been fully updated, reorganized, and revised to address the behaviors and health topics related to the leading causes of death and morbidity among adults and children in the United States. Using a multidisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Health Behavior Change prepares the next generation of health professionals to face future challenges in the health behavior sphere through its discussions on equity, theoretical advances, primary and secondary prevention, and application of effective strategies for implementing interventions across levels of society. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Provides the "gold standard" review of behavior change interventions New additions highlight the most recent evidence on timely topics such as vaccine uptake, reproductive and sexual health, workplace safety, injury prevention, and mental and behavioral health Features authors with deep expertise in behavior change research, clinical applications, and population health interventions Focuses on practical learning objectives that relate to core public health competencies Summarizes important concepts and information with new and updated illustrations, key points, and discussion questions Includes engaging case studies in every chapter Qualified instructors have access to this edition's expanded Instructor Resources including learning activities, comprehensive PowerPoint slides, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text
Health Promotion Moving Forward
Health Promotion Moving Forward: A Population Health Approach is the most current foundational health promotion textbook to dynamically reflect upon the collective pandemic experience, the lessons learned, and the strategies for national recovery. With a focus on the structural and social determinants of health that affect health equity, this textbook dives deeply into risk factors for today's leading causes of death and morbidity, with chapters tackling health challenges, behaviors, and programs related to tobacco products; food; physical activity; mental health; addiction and substance use; and sexual health. It uniquely takes a population lens, emphasizing the socio-ecological approach to understanding some of the most pressing current threats to individuals, families, and communities, such as food insecurity, climate change, vaccine hesitancy, loneliness, the teen mental health crisis, vaping, and more. Health Promotion Moving Forward is designed not only for undergraduate and graduate students in health promotion and public health, but also for students pursuing related health professional degrees who need an understanding of health promotion programs, community and population health interventions, and health communication techniques. Readers will learn best practices for working in the community and increase their understanding of the Affordable Care Act's focus on prevention. Throughout, it highlights successful programs, diverse careers, and practical skills to prepare learners for exciting roles in public health. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Uses a population health approach and socio-ecological frame for understanding the evidence-based recommendations, programs, and interventions for promoting health among individuals, families and social networks, communities, and society Identifies essential Healthy People 2030 objectives Provides detailed spotlights of possible careers in this dynamic field and of classic and novel health promotion interventions Emphasizes the importance of health equity for achieving health promotion goals at all levels Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoints, Test banks, an Instructor Manual with learning activities and discussion questions for each chapter, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text
Environmental Health
Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. This foundational textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. Whether students are heading into careers in governmental public health, research, advocacy, or other sectors, this textbook covers topics that relate to us all: climate change, energy, air, water, food, waste, and much more. Designed for graduates and advanced undergraduates, this textbook presents the field's basic concepts, related policies, and scientific tools in an accessible way. Readers learn about regulatory science, how environmental health science informs environmental protections, and where gaps remain, particularly in promoting environmental justice. Each chapter examines ways that structural racism and discrimination have shaped environmental health inequities that persist today. Readers can dig deeper to examine how environmental health and justice can be achieved in our communities, workplaces, households, and other built and social environments, as well as our healthcare systems. Drawing on countless historic and contemporary case studies, Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health facilitates a learning experience that inspires students to reimagine the foundations of environmental health for all. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers. Key Features: Provides a variety of learning tools, including discussion questions and learning activities, related to engagement, advocacy, and the exploration of environmental health in our daily lives Presents "In Other Words" boxes to reframe key or complex concepts and promote accessibility Humanizes the realities of pressing environmental health and justice concerns Includes access to a five-episode companion podcast series--The PFAS Chronicles--on the challenges and solutions of preventing and combating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or "forever chemicals" Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, a Sample Syllabus, and an Instructor Manual to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text
Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health
Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health.The rapid--and relatively recent--concentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost to human health and the environment. In Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health, editors James Merchant and Robert Martin bring together public health experts to explore the most critical topics related to industrial farm animal production.The environmental impacts of these concentrated animal-feeding operations endanger the health of farm and meatpacking workers, neighbors, and surrounding communities. Factory farms create public health hazards such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, as well as water polluted with nitrates, microbes, and other harmful chemicals. Despite the clear need for greater worker protection and oversight to mitigate the environmental harms of these practices, factory farms are notoriously difficult to regulate. Industrial animal operations are located predominantly in rural areas, often next to poor communities and communities of color. Food companies have driven independent producers nearly to extinction, sapped the economic vitality of rural communities, and amassed sweeping political influence at both the state and national levels to effectively prevent mitigation efforts.Essays in this volume cover pertinent topics such as the history, structure, and trends in the factory farming industry; water and air pollution; infectious disease health effects; community and social impacts; environmental justice and sustainable agriculture; and the impacts of COVID-19 among meatpacking workers.
PTCB Exam Prep 2024-2025 Study Guide - 6 Full-Length Practice Tests, PTCB Secrets Review Book with Detailed Answer Explanations
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Advances in AI for Health and Medical Applications
The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse fields; healthcare is no exception. In fact, AI is at the forefront of driving pivotal changes in the healthcare sector, opening up innovative and enhanced methods of care delivery. It holds the potential to have profound impacts on contemporary healthcare challenges. By leveraging AI, we can uncover patterns within vast clinical datasets and develop sophisticated computational reasoning methods that support human decision making. This Special Issue endeavours to spotlight the cutting-edge developments of AI in the healthcare and medical fields, and it proudly features twelve manuscripts encompassing a diverse array of original research and review articles. The collection of articles span from theoretical frameworks to practical applications, addressing everything from diagnosis and treatment to healthcare management and public health.
ESPAUR Report Webinar and Antibiotic Guardian Shared Learning Awards
The ESPAUR (English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resisistance) national annual report 2021-2022 interactive online webinar held on Wednesday 23 November 2022, and a summary of key findings covering each chapter is presented. The chapters include Antimicrobial Resistance; Antimicrobial Consumption; Antimicrobial Stewardship; NHS England: Improvement and Assurance Schemes; Professional and Public Education, Engagement and Training; COVID-19 Therapeutics; Research; and Stakeholder Engagement.The Antibiotic Guardian Shared Learning and Awards (AGSLA) event, which acknowledges, celebrates, and provides opportunity for shared learning from the work of healthcare professionals across the UK and abroad in tackling antimicrobial resistance.
A Test of Morals
While transplanting human heads is not a new concept, the idea has largely been relegated to religious lore or as a plot device in science fiction. But now, a surgical plan to perform the complex procedure exists, and though most physicians question head transplantation's medical veracity, bioethicists have challenged the surgery on moral grounds. A Test of Morals compiles and examines the ethical questions that dog those who advocate for conducting this most radical of medical proposals in order to determine if society should move forward and allow head transplantation to occur. Current bioethical principles stand in opposition to head transplantation, causing a conflict of values rarely seen in medicine.
New Techniques, Materials and Technologies in Dentistry
This Special Issue encompasses thrilling state-of-the-art techniques, materials and technologies in dentistry. It compiles a series of original articles that include review articles, in vitro studies and clinical studies, presenting the latest developments in this area.
Behavioral and Mental Health Problems in Children
Today's world is fraught with crisis and uncertainty. This creates a significant obstacle in child rearing and development. Children, inherently a vulnerable demographic, are at the epicenter of these crises. Approaches to address these problems need to be based on high-quality scientific research, to understand the root causes and determine effective approaches to reduce behavioral and mental health problems in children (BMPC). This is a special research reprint focusing on BMPC. It collected 14 high-quality papers from authors distributed across many countries, including the United States, France, China, Japan, Israel, and Thailand. This reprint included two main sections. The first section aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the social and mental mechanisms leading to BMPC. The second section aimed to develop behavioral and mental health promotion strategies and policies for children, as well as to provide some considerations in the design and implementation of effective intervention programs. We believe that this reprint is of great significance for the development and progress of research and practice in the area of children's behavior and mental health. This reprint is suitable as a reference book for researchers, and also has significance for guiding practical workers in this field. In the end, we noted that, in some papers, it was necessary to further improve them, to obtain in-depth and comprehensive overviews and to expand on the design and implementation of effective intervention programs.
Socio-Economic Burden of Disease
In 2020, the world was shaken by a very unexpected development, an unseen virus which could kill millions and spread without control. To reduce the impact of the pandemic and before the vaccine was created, lockdown and other safety measures were implemented.In this context, the socio-economic burden of the disease was, in our opinion, a major issue because we always considered that COVID-19 would have a hard impact on human beings and that that impact would be the most prominent effect of the pandemic. In consequence, when designing this Special Issue, we hoped to receive papers with "tales from the field" that would describe the mentioned socio-economic burden. Therefore, it was deeply rewarding to receive so many contributions of very good quality that ended up composing the Special Issue that is reprinted here.We sincerely thank all the authors and reviewers for the work they produced and we congratulate them for their success. We believe that this reprint of the Special Issue contributes to the understanding of the major consequences of COVID-19 in society. Crucially, the reprint includes papers on global perspectives but also national cases and also sector-specific cases. Finally, we hope the legacy of this volume will be long-lasting and that the papers it contains will be quoted and cited for many years to come.
COVID-19 in Dentistry and Dental Education
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected life throughout the world, and dentistry is no exception. Dentistry has already been shown to be a hazardous occupation due to the numerous infectious and health risks associated with it. Over the past year and a half, this risk has only grown because of the highly transmissible nature of the Coronavirus. Dentistry, being a profession where the operator and the assistants are in close contact with the patients, has seen numerous changes. Not only this, but even dental education has been impacted as most of the teaching over the pandemic period has been conducted online. Furthermore, dental education has been highly impacted as a major part of it involves hands-on training. Due to this, there are several social, financial, and health-related repercussions that must be analyzed and understood. This Special Issue invited manuscripts, both research and review, that analyze the SARS-CoV-2 situation with regard to dentistry and dental education.
Anxiety Culture
A collection of timely essays on the rising wave of anxiety in culture.The twenty-first century is characterized by uncertainty: from catastrophic climate change to the accelerating pace of technological change, societies around the world are gripped by anxiety about the future. In Anxiety Culture, editors John Allegrante, Ulrich Hoinkes, Michael Schapira, and Karen Struve bring together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine the forces that increase anxiety as a phenomenon beyond solely individual experiences of clinical anxiety to pervade global culture. These trenchant essays examine our culture of anxiety across diverse avenues of society. Covering fears related to climate change, populist and extremist movements around the world, gun violence, artificial intelligence, and more, contributors also examine how anxiety is expressed in literature and the media and how a culture of anxiety affects policymaking. Chapters are organized into five sections: disciplinary perspectives on anxiety, climate change and the environment, population health and social well-being, migration, and technology. There's room for hope, however. Contributors provide pragmatic recommendations for coping with anxiety culture in public education, governments, and NGOs. Anxiety Culture is a unique attempt to define this condition and an indispensable resource for those seeking stability in an unstable age, providing a set of conceptual and practical narratives for navigating both existing and emergent planetary challenges.Contributors: Kristina Allgoewer, Bryndis Asgeirsdottir, John Baldacchino, Christine Blaettler, Michel Bourban, Dominic Boyer, Eva J. Dauss?, Nicholas Freudenberg, Monica van der Haagen-Wulff, Kelsey Hudson, Karena Kalmbach, Emmanuel Kattan, Markus Lemmens, Eric Lewandowski, Rapha禱l Liogier, Roman Marek, Christian Martin, Paul Mecheril, Angelika Messner, Caine C. A. Meyers, Julie Mostov, Dirk Nabers, Frauke Nees, Konrad Ott, Sonali Rajan, Julie Reshe, B?rbara Rovir籀, Renata Selecl, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Frank Stengel, Ingibjorg Eva Thorisdottir, Maren Urner, Iris Wieczorek, Zhao Xudong, Liya Yu
