This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how we perform our identities, engage in social belonging, and communicate with each other. Understanding the onset of the pandemic as a moment experienced as cultural rupture, Cover provides a framework for understanding how selfhood, belonging, relationships and perceptions of time and space have undergone a disruption that not only is damaging to continuity and stability but also provides positive value through renewal and the re-making of the self and ways of living ethically.

This book examines the unique public health challenges in the conflict-affected environment, as well as provides next steps for the discourse about healthcare during war.

The women offer advice to others on disclosing HIV, coping with HIV, challenging HIV stigma through education and advocacy, and aging with HIV using spirituality and a renewed life purpose to find meaning. HIV Endurance offers a model of the HIV disclosure continuum, strategies to challenge HIV stigma, guidance to incorporate HIV into one's identity, and ways that organizations can prepare for the growing number of people who are aging with HIV.

Health Care Finance and the Mechanics of Insurance and Reimbursement combines financial principles unique to the health care setting with the methods and process for reimbursement (including coding, reimbursement strategies, compliance, financial reporting, case mix index, and external auditing). It explains the revenue cycle, correlating it with regular management functions; and covers reimbursement from the initial point of care through claim submission and reconciliation.

Disparities in Urban Health is for professional and course audiences. It ties together aspects of several recent and forthcoming books to show how the big ideas connect to people on a much more personal scale. In this book, Edward Wallace examines the impact of political and structural determinants of health in an urban setting.

In Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, leading political thinker Danielle Allen untangles the US government’s COVID-19 victories and failures to offer a plan for creating a more resilient democratic polity—one that can better respond to both the present pandemic and future crises. Looking to history, Allen also identifies the challenges faced by democracies in other times that required strong government action. In an analysis spanning from ancient Greece to the Reconstruction Amendments and the present day, Allen argues for the relative effectiveness of collaborative federalism over authoritarian compulsion and for the unifying power of a common cause. But for democracy to endure, we—as participatory citizens—must commit to that cause: a just and equal social contract and support for good governance.

The environment and climate change are the most important issues in the modern world. This book will contribute to a better understanding of concepts in the field of the environment and other related fields, as well as assisting students in scoring higher marks in a number of competitive exams. This book is focused on the environment, including subjects like environmental ecology, hydrogeology, bio-diversity, natural hazards and disaster management, climate change and other environmental problems. Some of the topics discussed in the book include environmental laws, soil science, natural disasters, the Earth's internal structure, sea floor spreading, plate tectonics, food chains, carbon sequestration, agriculture, ecological succession, and government and non-governmental organizations working in the field of environmental issues, among others.

Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity. This is so because there is a general consensus in the scientific community that the long-term shift or alteration of temperature and weather patterns both locally and globally are the result of human activities not the least those of burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agricultural practices, land-use changes, pollution. Accordingly, questions of environmental justice arise because of the threat that anthropogenic climate change pose to our planet. This book examines these issues using as its point of departure environmental justice, where environmental justice is concerned with environmental sustainability and the equitable treatment and involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes, and educational levels in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental programs, laws, rules, and policies. The book discusses, among other things, the population and consumption debate with regard to resource depletion and loss of biodiversity, problems of global policing of environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by nation-states in the context of the tragedy of the commons and possible solutions to some of these problems from African and Native American philosophies and worldviews.

Your Yoga Business is for yoga teachers at all stages of their careers looking to take their businesses further, faster. They will learn how to equip themselves with the tools, knowledge, and know-how needed to generate real and sustainable growth as a yoga teacher and business owner

In engaging stories spanning nine chapters and as many countries, the author brings readers along whether they are lay people hungry for more knowledge about the plight of refugees, or public health professionals who may hold a view of refugee health based on their work in one region or another.