Traditional health promotion efforts focus on reducing factors that contribute to ill-health, such as sedentary behavior or smoking. Yet, this focus on negative or deficit behaviors overlooks those who engage in positive ...

Climate change is a major public health concern in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. MENA is recognized as an active region in oil and gas production; this directly leads to increasing levels of ground ozone ...

The emphasis on leveraging virtualization to enhance learning has garnered attention in high education accreditation. However, a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the effective utilization of virtual reality ...

This chapter provides a detailed understanding of a selection of contemporary and politicised issues associated with waste and water. For waste, it covers household waste production and approaches to recycling, reuse and ...

The number of babies in Qatar being exclusively breastfed is significantly lower than the global target set by the World Health Organization. The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP), ...

In this chapter, we describe a program of critical health promotion research which is underpinned by critical theory, critical systems theory, and critical systems heuristics. Critical health promotion is focused on social ...