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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 Chronic Disease and Disability: Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Why Do Children Die?: Selective Perspectives on Thanatology in Pediatrics
As we reflect on causes of death in our children, methods of prevention become critically important to research and implement. Research notes that millions of childhood injuries result in thousands of deaths. Death can be due to medical disease and considerable progress including prevention of death has been made in management of cancer and other conditions over the past century, especially in developed countries. It is also important to apply principles of management and prevention to consequences of aggression and chronic illness. As illustrated in this book, we must look at underlying issues, both medical and behavioural, in the physical and psychiatric health of our children. We should apply known principles of preventive medicine that are being researched in the 21st century to prevent needless deaths in our paediatric population. Prevention may arise from such understanding and application of known concepts with fewer paediatric deaths and fewer parents/families undergoing heart-breaking grieving processes.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health: Some International Aspects
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2015
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2014
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health Yearbook 2014
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2013
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Nova Science Publishers Inc India: Health & Human Development Aspects
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pain Management Yearbook 2011
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child & Adolescent Health Yearbook 2009
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2010
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Child Health & Human Development Yearbook 2008
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Adolescence: International Aspects of Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence
The "Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS)" is a World Health Organization and United States "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)" collaborative effort in helping countries to assess various behavioural risk and protective factors in their communities, including mental health, suicidal behaviour, protective factors, substance use, violence and unintentional injury" among adolescents. In this book we used the most recent GSHS data (2016-2017) to describe a range of interpersonal and self-directed violence among adolescents in 15 countries: Liberia, Lebanon, Myanmar, Jamaica, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Paraguay, Bhutan, Dominican Republic, Vanuatu, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, Tonga, Morocco and Suriname. The results of the various papers will inform stakeholders of the relevance of school and youth health programmes and related policies targeting interpersonal and self-directed violence in the adolescent population.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Intellectual Disability: Some International Aspects
Developmental disabilities or neurodevelopmental disabilities (includes intellectual disability) are a diverse group of chronic disorders that begin at anytime during the development process (including conception, birth, and growth) up to 22 years of age and last throughout an individual's lifetime. Major disabilities include intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, communication disorders, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, and neural tube defects. We provide an introduction and review epidemiology of major disabilities and have also gathered international research from United States, Australia, Ghana, Jordan, Ireland, Italy and India on various aspects of intellectual and developmental disability, which we hope will be of interest to our readers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Service Leadership Education in an Era of Service Economy
In this book, we report evaluation findings based on different service leadership subjects and programs. Generally speaking, the reported findings replicated the previous evaluation findings of the Service Leadership Education Initiatives. These findings consistently and strongly suggest that these initiatives can help to promote service leadership attributes in young people. To build up the academic and professional foundation of service leadership education, these evaluation initiatives are very important. When China is gradually evolving to service economy, we earnestly hope that young people can be nurtured to be effective service leaders who possess competence, character and care.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Health: Topics, Themes and Trends
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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
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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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Nova Science Publishers Inc Disability: Functional Diversity
Disability can be transient, partly or permanent and take many forms and shapes. Disability can be a mental or physical illness or a condition that affects a major life function over the long term. Disability is a term also used in the labor market and worker compensation field to describe any lasting impairment that remains after a worker has been treated and allowed time to recover. A permanent disability could be as severe as the loss of an eye or as moderate as a broken leg that healed leaving the inability to walk normally. In this book we have gathered research on various aspects of disability and rehabilitation from Spain, United States of America, Brazil, Singapore, Cyprus, Malaysia, Italy, Japan and Manipal, which we hope will be of interest to the reader.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Chinese Children, Adolescent and Family Research
A survey of the literature showed that most research studies in children, adolescents and families have been conducted in Western contexts, which may not be applicable to non-Western contexts. Hence, research on children, adolescents and families in non-Western contexts is particularly important and we therefore need to enrich human development and family research in the Chinese context. In this book, we included 16 chapters to demonstrate the advances in Chinese children, adolescents, and family research. And it is our sincere hope that through this book, we can attempt to conduct more empirical studies that can help to promote the research atmosphere and enrich the knowledge of Chinese children, adolescent, and family research in a larger context.
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