Filter by
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia A Natio…
This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender people. Following an overview of current literature on the various aspects of and approaches to trans…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13829-9
- Collation
- XIX, 154
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Disorders of sleep and circadian rhythms in Parkinson's disease
This book is the first to take into account the rapidly growing body of knowledge on the relation between sleep and PD. Gathering contributions from internationally recognized experts, it provides a unique source of in-depth information on sleep and circadian dysregulation in Parkinson?s disease. The book is divided into two parts: the first comprises chapters on normal sleep-wake homeostasis, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783709116319
- Collation
- xii, 229 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 613
Air Pollution and Health Effects
Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases. This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory, therapeutic intervention measures to protect the public health and reduce the disease burden caus…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4471-6669-6
- Collation
- XV, 439
- Series Title
- Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
- Call Number
- 615 AIR a
Field Trials of Health Interventions : A Toolbox
Paediatrics is often thought of as following two main routes. One is that of ultra-technology and ever-narrower specialization. The other is recognition of child health in a community context, related to family circumstances (especially the health and welfare of mothers) and influenced by the environment, social stresses, economic limitations, cultural attitudes and practices, and policy decisi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780198732860
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 610 SMI f
Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of …
This book disentangles the issues in connection with the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its interface with health policy. It highlights the factors that should shape its progress in the near future. Interdisciplinary and critical views from a number of professionals are put together in a prescient order to cast some light and make recommendations as to the next steps HTA …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15003-1
- Collation
- XVI, 156
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 610 HEA
Health Information Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2014, held in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2015. The 20 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The scope of the papers includes medical/health/biomedicine information resources such as patient medical records, dev…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-19155-3
- Collation
- XIII, 248
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 613 HAN
The History of Medical Informatics in the United States
A group of world-renowned authors have joined forces with Dr Marion Ball to bring Dr Collen’s incredible work to press. These recognized leaders in medical informatics, many of whom are recipients of the Morris F. Collen Award in Medical Informatics and were friends of or mentored by Dr Collen, carefully reviewed, editing and updating his draft chapters. This has resulted in the most thorough…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4471-6732-7
- Collation
- XXII, 755
- Series Title
- Health Informatics
- Call Number
- -
Enhancing Soil Health to Mitigate Soil Degradation
This research editorial is intended to establish the context and provide a broad overview for the Special Issue of Sustainability entitled “Enhancing Soil Health to Mitigate Soil Degradation” that was initiated in 2014 to document both the magnitude and global revalence of soil degradation. Our goals for the Special Issue were to: (1) help illustrate various factors contributing to the prob…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-03842-359-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 630 ENH
Mathematics for Healthcare as Part of Computational Medicine
Appropriate mathematical tools and methodologies are critical for ensuring robust and reliable computational model predictions based on medical and healthcare data in the era of the digital health revolution (Duggal et al., 2018). Patient-specific approaches are being increasingly pursued, with simulations benchmarked by clinical data (e.g., brain activity recordings; Breakspear, 2017) obtain…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 510 MAT
Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions
So-called altered states of consciousness (ASC) are an intriguing, still under-researched topic, with profound neuropsychological and epistemological implications. In the last few decades there has been increasing multidisciplinary interest in consciousness and ASC, a term encompassing a wide range of pathological and non-pathological conditions, including dreaming, near-death experiences (NDEs…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-2-88919-485-8
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 613 NON
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography