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This book, Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa is structured around four major themes.

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th-21st centuries.

This book explores the perpetuation of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, and proposes viable policy and programming solutions to prevent it. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working on issues related to gender, the Caribbean, global development, criminology and human rights.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This book provides a gender perspective on the impact of extended working life on the different dimensions of well-being, the factors which can limit extended working life, and the working conditions of older workers.

A lyrical exploration of mental health and nature, set to the phases of the moon

This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness - a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death.

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue, and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication. It presents empirical cases of religious, non-religious and secular actors.

This book examines the recovery principle of co-production within mental health services, defining it as the creation of a space where all stakeholders - including service users, family members, carers and supporters - come together in a partnership to improve all aspects of mental health services.

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare delivery, and policies have brought the patients' role in healthcare to the forefront. This volume provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for the emerging discipline of Patient Ergonomics.

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare delivery, and policies have brought the patients' role in health care to the forefront. This volume closely examines notable application areas for the emerging discipline of Patient Ergonomics.

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities, or career roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women, sport and culture within the context of motherhood.

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary Russia, framed by changes to the healthcare system and the roles of its participants after socialism.

Sick Business is a clarion call for reform and change. A gripping expose, in the end the book equips you with some real answers and the tough questions you need to ask when your family''s health-and perhaps your own-is at stake.

There is a growing body of research exploring the effectiveness of yoga as a pathway to positive embodiment for those at-risk for and struggling with eating disorders. This book provides a comprehensive look at the state of the field.

Caesarean section is often seen as an unnecessary medical intervention or even as a personal failure for a woman, and is an option often feared by expectant mothers. Here, the authors emphasize the joy of delivering a baby, whatever the method, explaining all the issues surrounding Caesareans.

Osteoporose ist eine ernste Erkrankung, doch Sie haben es bis zu einem gewissen Grad selbst in der Hand, wie Sie Ihr leben mit Osteoporose gestalten. Thorsten Freikamp erklärt Ihnen, was Osteoporose ist und welche Arten von Osteoporose es gibt. Er erläutert, wie Sie Osteoporose vorbeugen können und wie diese Erkrankung behandelt wird. Dabei geht er auf Ernährung und Bewegung ein sowie auf medikamentöse Therapien. Zuletzt erfahren Sie, wo Sie Hilfe finden können. So hilft Ihnen dieses Buch, Ihr Leben bewusst und so selbstbestimmt wie möglich mit dieser Erkrankung zu führen, auch wenn Sie bisher lediglich Risikopatient sind.

This book explores the complex world of brain tumors and the ground-breaking role that nanotechnology plays in both detection and treatment.

Harnessing hope is fundamental to adapting to a chronic pain or palliative illness, and this fascinating book provides a new framework that will enable physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals to engage with patients to create better outcomes for rehabilitation.

A study on the use of mobile health apps and human creativity. An Anthropological Approach to mHealth underlines ten sixteen-month ethnographies, set across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, that revealed people's use of communicative apps, including as LINE, WeChat, and WhatsApp's alternative primary health apps, highlighting the irrelevance of dedicated health apps. Using a "smart-from-below" approach, this book studies these surprising practices and proposes a radically different anthropological method to the development and dissemination of mobile health (mHealth), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare.

A collection of the most remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have witnessed key moments in history or reached the scale or age that have allowed them to become history themselves.

A leading scientist’s spirited, confident guide to the way our immune system protects us—most of the time