Denise De Micheli • André Luiz Monezi Andrade • Eroy Aparecida da Silva • Maria Lucia Oliveira de Souza Formigoni Editors 2016 Neurobiological, Cognitive, and Psychological Issues The fact that prefaces often begin by describing how difficult it is to write one should have been a warning. But prefaces are there, and their existence is a […]
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Bruno D. Zumbo • Eric K.H. Chan Editors 2014 In this edited volume, 15 research syntheses of the validity evidence reported in different research areas are presented. The chapters were purposefully chosen to reflect a wide variety of disciplines, journals, or measures. Eight of the chapters focused on particular journals ranging from measurement and assessment journals like Educational and […]
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Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss • Emily A. Keshner Mindy F. Levin Editors 2014
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Jimoh Amzat • Oliver Razum 2014 The overall objective of this book is to provide theoretical and pragmatic discussions on medical sociology (sometimes referred to as health sociology) with African illustrations. It is an attempt to examine the various themes and topics in medical sociology with the aim of providing adequate explanations in instructive styles. It is particularly important […]
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Christian Janssen • Enno Swart Thomas von Lengerke Editors 2014 Theory, Methodology, and Results Foreword by Ronald M. Andersen Sixty years ago, Odin Anderson, a founder of medical sociology and health services research, initiated a series of national health care utilization surveys for the USA [1]. These studies documented large differences in people’s use of health services according […]
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Christine M. Hunter • Christopher L. Hunter Rodger Kessler Editors 2014 Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention
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Marisa Cordella • Aldo Poiani 2014 Psychological, Communicative, and Social Dimensions Today, when many diseases seem to be on the retreat, thanks to better education, hygiene, improved living standards and medical treatments, cancer still remains a serious problem around the world. It is often the case that a cancer diagnosis is received with great apprehension by patients and […]
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Anja K. Leist • Jenni Kulmala • Fredrica Nyqvist Editors 2014 From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice This volume is proof of the success of long-lasting and major efforts to foster crossnational and cross-disciplinary ageing research in Europe. All first authors were funded or have been invited to take part in the framework […]
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Sylvia C. Nassar-McMillan • Kristine J. Ajrouch Julie Hakim-Larson Editors 2014 Culture, Development, and Health From a perspective of ethnic identity, the process of my development as both a person and a professional has followed parallel paths. Due to ethnicities (and perceived ethnicities!) of the primary elders in my family of origin, coupled with the […]
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Shashi Bala Singh • Nanduri R. Prabhakar Srinivas N. Pentyala Editors 2014 The book on “Translational Research in Environmental and Occupational Stress” introduces the various aspects of translational research which resulted from bench to bedside and bedside to bench for the benefit of the society at large. This book includes the tangible and non-tangible products […]
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