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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787580203321

Titolo

Health and healing after traumatic brain injury : understanding the power of family, friends, community, and other support systems / / Heidi Muenchberger, Elizabeth Kendall, and John Wright, editors ; foreword by James S. Brady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2013

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-66223-2

979-82-16-09493-7

1-4408-2886-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Disability insights and issues

Altri autori (Persone)

KendallElizabeth <1963->

MuenchbergerHeidi

WrightJohn <active 2012.>

Disciplina

362.1974/81

Soggetti

Brain - Wounds and injuries

Brain Injuries - rehabilitation

Social Support

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Self-Determination and Personal Healing After Traumatic Brain Injury. Advice from the heart: stories of survival and growth following brain injury -- Neuroplasticity and mindfulness in brain injury rehabilitation: cause for great optimism -- The subtlety of brain injury: surviving and thriving through playfulness -- Part 2. Pulling Together rather than Falling Apart: Brain Injury in Families. Family resilience and traumatic brain injury -- Someone to care: social support after brain injury -- Too small for your boots! Understanding the experience of children when family members acquire a neurological condition -- Assisting siblings when their brother or sister acquired brain injury -- Part 3. Systems for Healing: Building a Better Service System for Traumatic Brain Injury -- Understanding mental health outcomes following traumatic brain injury -- The role of psychotherapy in rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury -- Optimal rehabilitation for



women who receive traumatic brain injury following intimate partner violence -- Holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: two case studies -- Part 4. Places, Communities, and Cultures: Drawing on the Strength of Many -- There's no place like home: the experience of home for young people with acquired brain injury in residential care environments -- The international community-based rehabilitation model: a way of assisting people with brain injuries, their families, and communities -- Culture, disability, and caregiving for people with traumatic brain injury -- Community leaders within a brain injury self-management program: a valuable resource -- A last word: charting a positive course for the future.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems--family, friends, community and social programs--can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic700 brain injury each year"--Provided by publisher.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407730603321

Titolo

Preconception Health and Care: A Life Course Approach / / edited by Jill Shawe, Eric A.P. Steegers, Sarah Verbiest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-31753-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Disciplina

618.2

618.1

Soggetti

Midwifery

Nursing services - Administration

Gynecology

Nutrition

Nursing Management

Concepció

Nutrició

Obstetrícia

Serveis de salut maternal

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Forward -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Definitions, background, history, challenges and opportunities (global perspectives) -- Chapter 2. Epigenetics, Embryology, Preconception science, Periconception, Sperm health -- Chapter 3. Lifestyle: behavioural health, alcohol, tobacco, substance use -- Chapter 4. Lifestyle: weight (obesity, overweight, underweight) -- Chapter 5. Chronic conditions: risk assessment, diabetes, cardiac, RA, Thyroid, Cystic Fibrosis, Haematological, IBD, pharmacotherapy -- Chapter 6. Infections: vaccinations, toxoplasmosis, listeriosis, CMV, STI’s , HIV/AIDS, Zika -- Chapter 7. Nutrition: folic acid, nutrients -- Chapter 8. Occupational Environment: occupational hazards. Environmental Pollutants: exposures to toxins, pollution, water -- Chapter 9. Social Environment: interpersonal violence, trafficking -- Chapter 10. Fertility awareness, maternal/paternal age, menstrual issues, reproductive life plan, birth spacing -- Chapter 11. Genetic health, genetic counselling, consanguinity -- Chapter 12. Strategies for improving preconception health – examples from around the globe (China, Ethiopia, Europe, Canada, US, Bangladesh) -- Chapter 13. The Way Forward.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults. The continuum of life begins with the health and wellness of parents prior to conception, followed by embryonic and fetal development, and continues throughout life. Each person’s life stages prepare them for the next and determine their health outcome and wellbeing over time. The text highlights the importance of promoting health throughout the lifespan, , the influence of intergenerational health, and the concept of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in epigenetic processes and embryology. Authors underscore the importance of advancing health equity and lift up some of the ethical considerations in this work. The authors explore specific interventions in four major categories: Lifestyle, Infections, Nutrition, and Contraception / Pregnancy Planning (LINC). Preconception care is defined by the World Health Organization as the provision of biomedical, behavioural and social health interventions to women and couples before conception. Preconception care includes evidence-based interventions to improve health status, to reduce behaviours, individual and environmental factors that contribute to poor health outcomes. This book offers readers evidence-based guidance regarding fertility awareness and sperm health, genetic counselling and lifestyle assessments, as well as mental wellbeing, alcohol, tobacco and pharmacotherapy, and specialist care for those with chronic conditions, including a review of medications. It also covers relevant infections, including HIV and the Zika virus, as well as different types of environmental and occupational exposure. The book employs a framework focusing on health promotion, the social determinants of health, and the science behind preconception care. Strategies for improving preconception and interconception health, including examples from around the globe, are described in detail.