Book chapters

Chapter 1 - Healthcare in the times of artificial intelligence: setting a value-based context

Elsevier,

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Smart Healthcare, Next Gen Tech Driven Personalized Med&Smart Healthcare, 2021, Pages 1-9

The value-based health-care strategy imposes significant challenges to the adoption of medical technologies in the health-care domain. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 also proved that the deployment of medical informatics in creative ways toward innovation and bold solution to new problems and cases is a vital priority for the future of healthcare. The goal of SDG target 3d. is to strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks (by using medical innovative technologies) and SDG target 9b. to support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Technology; Artificial Intelligence, Global

Environmental Water Requirements in Mountainous Areas - Chapter 7: Sustainable use of mountain water resources

Elsevier,

Environmental Water Requirements in Mountainous Areas, 2021, Pages 281-292

Looks at the links between sustainability of water in mountainous areas and sustainability.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Tags:

Water and sanitation; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Dementia Rehabilitation - Chapter 4: Maintaining and improving physical function in dementia

Elsevier,

Dementia Rehabilitation, October 2021, Pages 57-79

This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 17 by outlining the common physical impairments found in people living with dementia, as well as evidence for treatments to maintain or improve physical function and prevent falls, in both community and residential settings.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population, Global

The Inequality of COVID-19 - Chapter 4: Internal and external Maasai communications and management of COVID-19

Elsevier,

The Inequality of COVID-19, 2022, Pages 113-154

This chapter aligns with UN SDG 3 discussing the initial government mitigation efforts and actions at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in two different Maasai regions. The chapter highlights the contrasting political environments in Kenya and Tanzania and how each impacted the Indigenous East African community. While acknowledging the significance of modern information and communication technologies, it also offers a glimpse of unique internal culturally relevant messaging strategies adopted within the global governance networks.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Africa

The Inequality of COVID-19: Chapter 8 - Unequal virus beyond 2020: paths forward

Elsevier,

The Inequality of COVID-19, Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions, 2022, Pages 241-258

This chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by examining the need for equality on the economically and politically marginalized societies.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation, Global

The Inequality of COVID-19: Chapter 1 - Introduction

Elsevier,

The Inequality of COVID-19, Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions, 2022, Pages 1-29

This chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by exploring the challenges faced by marginalized Indigenous communities experienced during the pandemic.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation, Global

Mxenes and their Composites - Chapter 19 - MXene-based membranes for water desalination

Elsevier
This chapter contributes to SDG 6 by introducing technologies for water desalination.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: 5 - Practical Aspects of Impairment Rating and Disability Determination

Elsevier,

Braddom's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Sixth Edition) 2021, Pages 74-88.e2

This book chapter advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reducing Inequalities by focusing on the minimization of impairments and the disabling consequences of disease.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Physical Disability, Global

Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems: Pharmaceutical, Clinical, and Regulatory Aspects - Chapter 6: Long-acting drug delivery systems: Applications for sexual and reproductive health

Elsevier,

Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems
Pharmaceutical, Clinical, and Regulatory Aspects
Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
2022, Pages 163-202

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing by highlighting the significant role of long-acting drug delivery systems in improving the management of gynecological cancers, AIDS, and other pathological conditions, along with updates for the systems that are already present on the market such as contraceptive methods and AIDS prophylaxis.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Chapter 2 - Epidemiology of primary bone tumors and economical aspects of bone metastases

Elsevier,

Bone Sarcomas and Bone Metastases - From Bench to Bedside (Third Edition), Bone Sarcomas and Bone Metastases - from Bench to Bedside, 2022, Pages 17-23

Examines the economic impact of bone metastasis for patients with cancer. Supports SDG 3.4.1 to 3.4 , reduce by one thirdmortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Economic Aspect, Global

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