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This Topic on Sustainable Development and Food Insecurity is a comprehensive collection of scholarly articles that explore the complex and multifaceted nature of food insecurity across various scales, from the individual to the global level. The…

The reprint “Sustainable Healthy Working Life for All Ages—Work Environment, Age Management and Employability” provide an outlet of research contributing to the development of theoretical and practical knowledge influencing people’s working life.…

Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words—that is, language that lands as written text—are more-than-human material. And, these materials,…

Over the past few decades, the field of bioactive materials for bone tissue engineering has emerged as a prominent approach in addressing bone traumas. The focus lies on the production of durable implants and bone substitutes capable of bypassing…

System dynamics is a simulation modeling approach to strategic and policy analysis that has been applied to many health care and public health issues since the 1960s and has become increasingly prevalent since the 2000s. The ten articles in this…

Kedokteran telah berevolusi menjadi spesialisasi tingkat tinggi dengan menggunakan pencitraan organ yang sangat terperinci. Hal ini telah memecahkan banyak masalah kesehatan akut yang terkait dengan penyakit organ tunggal. Namun, banyak penyakit dan…

Using systems-thinking tools for the first time to understand an entire national health system, this book will be of immense value to academics, students and policymakers. The case study of Malaysia shows that a people-centred health system can be…

This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the “pharmaceutical nexus” of mercury in Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) where,…

Every minute, 34 new patients are diagnosed with cancer globally. Although over the past 50 years treatments have improved and survival rates have increased dramatically for several types of cancers, many remain incurable. Several aggressive types of…

The sensation of flavor reflects the complex integration of aroma, taste, texture, and chemesthetic (oral and nasal irritation cues) from a food or food component. Flavor is a major determinant of food palatability—the extent to which a food is…