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Places and Spaces
In this book, a range of interesting and diverse papers are presented, which demonstrate the importance of the psychosocial domain to adolescents, as ...
Advances in Research and Treatment
Bone and brain metastasis are of great importance because they can profoundly affect a patient's quality of life and function. Complications of metast...
International Perspectives
In the Western World the leading causes of mortality continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, eating disorders an...
Current Research Aspects
In recent years it has become clear that cancer is a major health concern for people with an intellectual disability. In the general population it is ...
Quality of Life and Health
Based on work done in Denmark we make the argument that knowing the meaning of your own life and living accordingly is the real source of health and w...
Healing the Mind in Traditional Hippocratic Medicine
Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through mo...
Therapeutic Interventions
Rett Syndrome is a severe neuro-developmental disorder characterised by losses in the areas of intellectual functioning, fine and gross motor skills a...
Sexology and Traditional Hippocratic Medicine
Adolescence identifies a critical period of human life that allows sufficient maturity for the human being to leave childhood dependency and pass thro...
Research in Quality of Working Life
Happiness at work.......your quality of life and sometimes your life depends on it. Work is an important part of the life of the modern man, as it alw...
This book is designed to provide primary care clinicians with a practical guide to the significant problems that increasingly affect the emotional hea...
An International Perspective
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Quality of Life Philosophy
If you take a walk in the woods on a winter morning and see the sun sparkle and glimmer in the newly fallen snow, or if you sit one morning on the pie...
Holistic Practice of Traditional Hippocratic Medicine
Health and Development Issues for the Leaders of Tomorrow
This book is based upon a special issue published in the International Journal on Disability and Human Development and permission has been obtained fr...
While it is good to see that there are many leadership programs in the market for different parts of the world, there are several limitations of the e...
Some Perspectives
Some New Perspectives
It is very clear that children in every country experience abuse and neglect. The descriptions of the child welfare systems in different countries in ...
Practical Strategies
The need to better prepare physicians for rural and remote practice continues to be a pressing issue in medical education around the world. Rural and ...
This book examines how well primary healthcare policy and services are supported by high quality, relevant research methods in a context in which too ...
The "Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS)" is a World Health Organization and United States "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C...
Theory, Research, and Application
In the prevention science approach, focus is put on identifying risk and protective factors in adolescent risk behaviour. Based on this approach, many...
Long Term Effects in a Chinese Program
Adolescent developmental issues are growing globally; studies show that the percentage of adolescent mental health issues such as depression and suici...
Social Science Aspects
Looking back over the course of the three-plus decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scholars and researchers have made many significant strides in unders...
Examining Multifaceted Social Or Ecological Problems and Child Maltreatment
This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/communit...
Smoking, Alcohol and Substance Use
Smoking has well-known health hazards. It is associated with lung cancer, oral cancer, stroke, heart disease, emphysema, and other short- and long-ter...
Equipping Minds with Cognitive Development
Research studies have examined the relationship between working memory, cognitive skills, and academic abilities. However, while some studies and scie...
Minority and Immigrant Populations
For all of our advances in health care and achievements in public health that have contributed to an increased life expectancy, there still remain per...
Implementation of a Youth Program in a Chinese Context
It makes sense to have well-planned, research based approaches to adolescent health and education, which can be incorporated into the curriculum by te...
Until recently, it was thought that the adult brain is modifiable only during early stages of ontogenesis. However, neurophysiological and neuroimagin...
The early years in the life of a child are critical for cognitive, social and emotional development. It is therefore important that we make sure that ...
A Textbook on Holistic Medicine for Mental Disorders
Mental illness comes in many qualities and many degrees, from the young patient with low self-esteem and incomplete psychosexual development, to the p...
Can You Trust the Drugs are Working and Safe?
Randomised clinical trials (RCT) have been accepted as the golden standard of testing, which in turn makes chemical medicine "evidence based". RCT is ...
Sexology, the art and science of helping other people with their sexual problems, has been an integrated part of every culture throughout history. The...
Once upon a time, paediatrics was involved with infectious disease and acute disorders, but a new pattern of morbidity has emerged. Social difficultie...
International Aspects
Throughout the years, health research has focused mostly on urban and inner city subjects for various reasons. That focus has made our understanding o...
Development and Evaluation of a Prevention Program
Adolescent substance abuse is a growing concern in Hong Kong and there has been several peaks in adolescent substance abuse in the past two decades. I...