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Nova Science Publishers Inc Disability: Recent International Research
Wherever we live or whatever we do, disability will always be a part of us. With increasing age, we will all surely encounter disability. Disability can arise from age or outside forces, such as a traffic accident. It is estimated that more than a billion people, or about 15% of the world's population, live with some form of disability. Disability research is therefore important not only for the individual and the family, but also for the society to adapt and facilitate a better quality of life for this segment of the population. For example, research from the United States found significant disparities in the prevalence of disability between urban and rural residents, with rural residents having the highest prevalence of disability. Such epidemiology and survey research can be important tools for public health and can guide policy makers to allocate budgets, service facilities and expertise. In this book, we have gathered recent disability research from around the world that we hope will be of interest to the reader.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Alternative Medicine Research Yearbook 2015
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2013
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2012
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2009
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2009
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2008
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2008
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Building Children and Youth for the Future: Some International Aspects
In this book we have brought together research from international clinicians, practitioners and researchers from various backgrounds and communities. Some of the papers were presented at the annual Stop Youth Suicide conference in Lexington, Kentucky in November 2019 and some at the Fifth International Conference on Child Health, Development and Welfare in Jerusalem, Israel during December 2019. The topics in this international potpourri of presentations are from a college experience program for people with intellectual disabilities in New York, migration from South Korea, which has emerged as one of the world's largest diaspora nations, discussions on abuse head trauma and adolescent suicide to risk factors for impaired early childhood development in rural India. We hope this collection of papers will be of interest to our international audience and hope you will find useful information from this research.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tribute to the Corona Whistleblowers
The Corona hype, the Corona panic, has manifested the common cold as a brand new disease. What we present here is the psychosomatic hypothesis for COVID-19. We are living in a time of change. It is easy to assume that we live in a safe and stabile world, but the Corona COVID-19 pandemic has shown the whole world that this is not the case. Mighty forces changes our way of living, thinking and things changes fast. It is difficult to understand what is happening, for you need to be an expert in many different fields in order to really get it: medicine, economy and politics. You even need psychology, sociology and maybe even consciousness-research to fully comprehend what we are dealing with in the 2019-2020 Corona pandemic. This book tries to give you sufficient background in different areas to at least get an idea of what is happening around us in all parts of the world.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Disability: International Aspects
Disability research is important for the individual and the family, but certainly also for the society that has to adapt and facilitate an easier life and better service for this segment of our populations. For example, research showed significant disparities in the prevalence of disability between urban and rural residents, which can guide society to provide better service. Epidemiology and survey research can be important tools for public health focus and intervention and guide policy makers to allocate budgets and service facilities and expertise. In this book, we have gathered research on various aspects of disability from Malaysia, India, Ghana, Kenya, Portugal, Bangladesh, Thailand and Nigeria, which we hope will be of interest to the reader.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Positive Youth Development: Digital Game-Based Learning
This book furnishes a rich description and discussion on the theory and practice of DPYD (digital positive youth development) games, in particular, design, implementation, and initial evaluation. Chapters show a concerted and creative effort in providing preventive measures on commonly found adolescent developmental issues. They also demonstrate that the newly developed and specially designed games are in general efficient and effective measures to promote youth development and prevent some common adolescent problems from deteriorating in contemporary urban societies. Initial users' qualitative feedback supports their effectiveness. Findings related to motivational variables such as self-efficacy, situational interest, goal orientation, and engagement variables are discussed. It is noteworthy that the game on interpersonal relationship has a special feature of promoting cross-cultural understanding of the values behind Chinese and Western (English-speaking only) cultures.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain: Perspectives on Acute and Chronic Pain
From Hippocratic medicine through modern theory, the concept and physiopathology of pain has been developed from religious and philosophical to a more scientific concept. Different cultures have developed different words to express pain and we are still far from a comprehensive understanding of pain. In clinical practice, a good understanding of history is important and multidisciplinary collaboration should be used to help the patient with both acute and chronic pain. In this book we have gathered evidence from international researchers and practitioners involved with both acute and chronic pain issues with the hope that this information will be of use to the reader.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Alternative Medicine Research Yearbook 2017
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health and Human Development Yearbook 2017
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child and Adolescent Health Yearbook 2017
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Environmental Justice and the Intersection of Poverty, Racism and Child Health Disparities
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2015
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Adolescence & Health: Some International Perspectives
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Disability, Chronic Disease & Human Development
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Alternative Medicine Research Yearbook 2013
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2012
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2011
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2011
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2011
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Nova Science Publishers Inc India: Disability, Health and Slum Issues
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Themes in Grenada and the Caribbean Region
Over the past decade, the regional governments in Grenada and the Caribbean region, together with public health and clinical institutions, have turned their attention to tacking the rising prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases, in particular, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. The emergence and rising prevalence of these lifestyle diseases are suggestive of a correlation with the cultural transformation that overtook the region. In the first quarter of 2020, the region's health landscape turned another corner with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Improving the health status of Caribbean populations is at the forefront of the agenda of the regional public health institutions and, in producing this book, we provide support for evidenced-based public health practice in the Caribbean region. We hope readers find the issue informative to understanding the public health situation in the Caribbean and will motivate affirmative action to improve public health.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Hearing Impairment and Disability: Identification, Assessment and Intervention
Much research has been conducted to provide researchers and hearing healthcare professionals with updated information in regard to hearing assessments, results interpretation and case management. This ongoing research is particularly imperative to guide clinicians with optimized methods in assessing and managing pediatric patients with hearing impairment and disability. As such, tremendous research efforts have been made in determining the most optimum methods in assessing hearing using both subjective and objective tests. Since hearing loss can occur due to disrupted peripheral and/or central auditory pathway, there is also a growing interest to study children with auditory processing disorder (APD). Even though notable achievements have been observed in understanding APD, more research is required, particularly in establishing a gold standard APD test and its specific interventions. Aditionally, having an objective test such as speech-evoked auditory brainstem response is beneficial to understand how speech sounds are encoded within the brainstem region in hearing-impaired children, as well as in those with compromised neural function. In this book, we have gathered research from Malaysia and India in this field and hope it will be of interest to our readers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Mexico: Health and Aging
In this book we wanted to identify trajectories of health and their associations with lifestyle factors in a national representative cohort study of older Mexicans. We used secondary data from the Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) second wave 2014-15 in Mexico. The average healthy life expectancy of older Mexicans has actually declined over the past decade. Limited access to nutrition resources and unhealthy dietary styles, due to high poverty, have led to increasing chronic diseases like diabetes among older Mexican adults, which in turn create further financial problems as a result of high out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare. This book deals with angina pectoris, stroke, oral health, eye health, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, loneliness, arthritis, back pain, obesity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and sleep. We hope that findings from these papers may aid public policy and programmes for older adults in Mexico.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Clinical Oncology: An Encompassing Overview
In this book we have gathered recent research related to cancer and cancer treatment and care. We also present research on pharmacy in cancer treatment, a few papers on breast cancer, research on bone metastases, radiation therapy and some pilot programs on telemedicine in cancer care, prostate cancer screening in Guyana, cost analysis of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in Canada and early oncology rehabilitation for lymphoma patients in Singapore. We hope this research will be of interest to our readers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Adolescence in Curaçao
In this book, we present research from the Curaçao "Global School-based Student Health Survey" (GSHS). The World Health Organization (WHO) and United States "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)" in their collaboration around this survey help countries to assess ten behavioural risk and protective factors, including alcohol use, dietary behaviours, drug use, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, protective factors, sexual behaviours, tobacco use, violence and unintentional injury among adolescents. In the survey, a self-administered questionnaire is used to obtain data on young people's health behaviour and protective factors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children and adults worldwide. We hope that the results from this survey in Curaçao will inform stakeholders of the importance of a healthy school environment, for setting priorities, establishing programmes and advocating for school and youth health programmes and related policies.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Cancer Management in Latin America II: Melanoma to Cost-Effectiveness
Latin America represents about 10% of the global population distributed in 33 countries. There is huge social and economic heterogeneity even within and beyond the same country, particularly Brazil being the largest country, where Portuguese is the official language rather than Spanish. Furthermore, several ranking systems have considered Brazil a unique country within the 10 world highest economies. In view of the diversity in Latin America with different possibilities and realities we have found it essential to develop a textbook with focus on the Management of Cancer in Latin America, describing our daily reality, problems to overcome and our huge possibilities. In this volume, we discuss various cancers from melanoma to cost-effectiveness. We hope that this book will serve as a valuable resource of information for health care professionals, practitioners and policy makers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Vaccine: Measles and Rubella Vaccination Experience in Zambia
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2016
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pediatrics and Adolescent Health: Recent International Research
About one in four youths used a tobacco product during the past 30 days. By school level, this is approximately three in ten high school students and one in eight middle school students. Since 2014, e-cigarettes have been the most commonly used tobacco product among youths. It is reasonable to assume that many young smokers are practicing this habit while with friends or at parties, exposing their friends and peers to hazardous passive smoking, which is also the case for smaller children exposed to their parental smoking. Smoking is just one important public health issue in childhood and adolescence, but there are many other issues in this period of our development. In this book we have gathered some recent research on children and youth from various places around the world on many topics, not just limited to smoking, which we hope will be of interest to the reader.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management: Recent International Research
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Children & Childhood: Some International Aspects
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2015
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2014
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2013
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Chronic Disease & Disability in Childhood
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Alternative Medicine Yearbook 2010
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Alternative Medicine Research Yearbook 2011
£334.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2012
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2009
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2010
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2010
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Childhood and Adolescence: Perspectives of Pain
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