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Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility : Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress,…
Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis: Improving State-of-the-Art Management and Search for Novel Targets
This open access book is supported by the European Atherosclerosis Society Association (EAS). This follow-up edition of the well-received Handbook volume 'Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs' reflects the state-of-the-art and most recent developments in…
High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation
Pharmacology/Toxicology; Molecular Medicine; Human Physiology; Immunology; Cell Biology
Animal Modeling in Cancer
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Animal Modeling in Cancer that was published in Genes
Drinking Water Quality and Human Health
The quality of drinking water is paramount for public health. Despite important improvements in the last decades, access to safe drinking water is not universal. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 10% of the population in the world…
Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis
Faecal sludge management is recognized globally as an essential component of city-wide inclusive sanitation. However, a major gap in developing appropriate and adequate management and monitoring for faecal sludge is the ability to understand and…
Chapter 21 Medical privacy and big data A further reason in favour of public universal healthcare coverage
This This chapter aims to explore the challenge that big data brings to medical privacy. Section I offers a brief overview of the role of privacy in medical settings. I define define privacy as having one’s personal information and one’s personal…
Regularity of the One-phase Free Boundaries
This open access book is an introduction to the regularity theory for free boundary problems. The focus is on the one-phase Bernoulli problem, which is of particular interest as it deeply influenced the development of the modern free boundary…
Water-filtered Infrared A (wIRA) Irradiation: From Research to Clinical Settings
The aim of this open access book is to provide a unique, timely, critical and comprehensive compilation of more than 30 years of robust international experimental and clinical research related to the basic science and therapeutic application of…
Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged…