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La nutrición geriátrica es, a todas luces, un tema actual con enfoque en la prevención, diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades nutricionales con altas posibilidades de complicaciones que, a futuro, pueden repercutir en la población de países en vías de desarrollo, países emergentes o países desarrollados. El objetivo de este libro es recopilar información actual y científica sobre este tema para todo aquel que tenga a su cuidado a un adulto mayor.
La prevalencia de enfermedades como sobrepeso, obesidad, diabetes, cáncer y afecciones cardiovasculares enfatiza la necesidad de promover una educación de alta calidad en la formación de profesionales de la salud, como lo son los estudiantes de la licenciatura en Nutrición. Para lograr esto, una de las competencias más importantes a desarrollar es la evaluación del estado nutricional y el establecimiento de un diagnóstico claro. Esta obra transita por los aspectos generales de este proceso de evaluación, donde se incluyen antecedentes relacionados con la alimentación, antropometría, exámenes físicos y datos bioquímicos, entre otros. Es una herramienta útil, didáctica y de consulta que brinda la información y las prácticas necesarias para dominar las particularidades de la evaluación nutrimental.
Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home. Accordingly, retail and foodservice establishments, as well as food producers at all levels of the food production chain, have a growing responsibility to ensure that proper food safety and sanitation practices are followed, thereby, safeguarding the health of their guests and customers. Achieving food safety success in this changing environment requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of organizational culture and ...
This book focuses on recent developments in Latin American politics and society. The major new selection made in the book are the Church's role in the Nicaraguan revolution, the Malvinas/Falklands war, the struggle for democracy in Argentina and Brazil, and women's liberation in Cuba.
Serves as a reference guide for any student interested in the modern history of Spain and Portugal. This work contains a concise narrative history, a chronology, and an A-to-Z encyclopedia covering significant people, places, events, and issues in Spanish and Portuguese history.
El presente libro es la exposición inédita y exhaustiva de un fondo documental sobre el linaje de los Ponce de León, pero en su rama bastarda iniciada con Estropo Ponce de León, hermanastro del marqués de Cádiz Rodrigo Ponce de León, y una ciudad, Jerez de la Frontera. Iniciada desde la Baja Edad Media hasta mediados del siglo XX, nos permite visualizar la evolución del linaje, pero también su implementación con otras familias nobiliarias tanto locales como foráneas, así como leer una historia de España y América desde la perspectiva de los "Ponces" que son parte y forma de nuestro pasado.
This book is composed by the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'22), held at Tecnológico de Costa Rica, in San Carlos, Costa Rica, between the 9th and the 11th of February 2022. ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information technology and systems research, together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: information and knowledge management; organizational models and information systems; software and systems modelling; software systems, architectures, applications and tools; multimedia systems and applications; computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; intelligent and decision support systems; big data analytics and applications; human–computer interaction; ethics, computers & security; health informatics; information technologies in education, and Media, Applied Technology and Communication.
Antibiotics represent one of the most successful forms of therapy in medicine. But the efficiency of antibiotics is compromised by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Antibiotic resistance, which is implicated in elevated morbidity and mortality rates as well as in the increased treatment costs, is considered to be one of the major global public health threats (www.who.int/drugresistance/en/) and the magnitude of the problem recently prompted a number of international and national bodies to take actions to protect the public (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/docs/road-map-amr_en.pdf: http://www.who.int/drugresistance/amr_global_action_plan/en/; http://www.whitehouse....
Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...