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Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion
Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion David V. McQueen, editor A scan of health challenges around the globe readily brings to mind a range of infectious illnesses, from HIV to influenza. Yet chronic non-contagious conditions--heart disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer--are more prevalent, and their rates soaring, across the developed and developing worlds. The Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion is an important resource for understanding and approaching chronic illnesses and their prevention. This timely text balances theory and strategies to provide an integrative context for health-affecting behaviors regarding tobacco use, food choices,...
Rough Road (Clean)
Rough Road (Clean)
Physical Activity and Mental Health
Provides an evidence-based review of the connections between physical activity, mental health, and well-being, presenting research illustrating how the use of physical activity can reduce the impact of potentially debilitating mental health conditions.
Rough Road: A Motorcycle Club New Adult Romance
Enjoy this steamy MC romance series by USA Today Bestselling dark contemporary romance author Summer Cooper and her friend sexy new adult romance author Sienna Chance! Home is wherever she is. People want Grier dead. That’s old news. And he’d be happy to see them try. But when they try to hurt Fiona and her baby, that makes his blood boil. He never knew he could love someone this deeply. Even if he doesn’t always know how to show it. But there is one thing he can do — keep her safe. If anyone dares to put her in harm’s way… They’d better watch out. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for her. Nothing. Even if that means killing. Unleash your inner rebel with our gripping motorcy...
Global Health Risks
This publication is a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health attributable to 24 global risk factors.--Publisher's description.
Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness
This work is a critical reflection on the state of health promotion effectiveness in practice around the world. It examines the meaning of health promotion from regional perspectives, and explores regional strengths and weaknesses in demonstrating effectiveness. The book goes on to consider issues in public health such as tobacco, mental health, obesity, urbanization, war, and social determinants in order to assess the role of effectiveness, and to examine methodologies for demonstrating effectiveness. Finally, the book looks at questions over the effectiveness of health promotion – the debate about the relationship between evidence, impact, and outcomes.
Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance in health and environment, 2024 update
This is the 2024 update of the Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment. The Compendium is a comprehensive collection of available WHO and other UN guidance for improving health by creating healthier environments. It provides an overview and easy access of more than 500 actions, and a framework for thinking about health and environment interventions. It covers a broad range of areas such as air pollution, water, sanitation and hygiene, climate change, chemicals, radiation, or food systems. Guidance is classified according to principal sectors involved, level of implementation (national, community, health care), the type of instrument (taxes, infrastructure etc.) and ...
Physical activity measurement and surveillance in adults
Updating global guidance on the measurement and surveillance of physical activity was called for in the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity and the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. This report summarizes the first of a series of planned technical meetings of scientific and technical specialists in measurement methods, wearable sensor technology and population surveillance of physical activity. This meeting supported WHO’s efforts to scope the potential for using wearable digital devices in the pursuit of monitoring and surveillance of global physical activity in adults, and to review the use of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire.
Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control
“..it is increasingly clear that cancer is also a disease of inertia. In this book, a broadly multidisciplinary group presents the evidence and provides the recommendations. ... The antidote to diseases of inertia is movement — let’s move!” John Potter, M.D.,Ph.D., from the Foreword The American Cancer Society estimates that a third of all cancer deaths could be prevented through avoidance of obesity and the rejection of sedentary lifestyles. The World Health Organization also supports this claim. Additionally, these and other organizations now recognize the role that activity can play in improving the quality of life for cancer patients. Cancer Prevention and Management through Exer...
