Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience- Chapter 1: COVID-19 pandemic, global spread, issues, and challenges

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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience, COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World, 2022, Pages 3-12
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an understanding of understand the inequalities between countries and shifting modality in risk governance. The case studies of COVID-19 pandemic impacts, governance, and consequences have been analyzed from various perspectives at the local, national, and regional levels.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 56: Racial/ethnic health disparities

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition): Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, 2022, Pages 1009-1023
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of current knowledge of racial/ethnic inequities in health with a focus on the United States and the potential contribution of psychosocial stressors to account for them.
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Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World - Chapter 8: From the muddy banks of the Watu: The Krenak and the Rio Doce mining disaster in Brazil

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Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 4, 2022, Pages 145-165

This chapter aligns with UN SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG 15 (Life on land) describing the historical and ethnographic description of the Krenak, the indigenous people who inhabit the left margins of the Rio Doce river and the conflicts they have experienced in their territory over the years and how the Rio Doce mining disaster impacted their lives.

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Disaster risk reduction; Human rights; Health and wellbeing, South America

Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Ninth) - Chapter 13: Congenital Cerebral Impairment

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Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Ninth)
Major Problems in Neurology
2023, Pages 295-324
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the physical deficits, which are accompanied in predictable frequencies by Intellectual Disability and epilepsy, that result from brain injury sustained in utero, during birth, and infancy.
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Indigenous People and Nature: Chapter 1 - Indigenous people activities on ecosystems and sustainable development- a paradigm shift

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Indigenous People and Nature, Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability, 2022, Pages 3-27
This chapter provides a comprehensive strategy to assess ecological systems’ involvement in indigenous wellbeing, signifying how natural systems are intertwined with people’s communal, economic, and cultural environments, along with their skills.
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Indigenous People and Nature - Chapter 7 - Livelihood constraints of indigenous people exposed to climatic hazards

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Indigenous People and Nature, Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability, 2022, Pages 171-197
Understanding livelihood vulnerability to hydrometeorological hazards is a crucial challenge for policymakers to create a clear foundation for vulnerable coastal residents. Using microlevel livelihood vulnerability research employing LVI and Socioeconomic Vulnerability Index, this chapter measures the magnitude of indigenous peoples' vulnerability to the detrimental consequences of hydrometeorological hazards on socioeconomic conditions.
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Indigenous People and Nature - Chapter 8 - Functions of social work on integration of the indigenous population into society

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Indigenous People and Nature, Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability, 2022, Pages 199-216
The indigenous peoples make a lasting impact on the society and people through their activities such as protection of the ecosystem, agriculture, and the maintenance of ethnic origin; these people are faced with many risks regarding health, sanitation, water, climate change, and pandemic. The chapter aims to determine the integration of the indigenous population into society and the functions of social work in this regard.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Disaster risk reduction; Indigenous Rights, Global

Healthcare Strategies and Planning for Social Inclusion and Development Volume 2: Social, Economic, and Health Disparities of Rural Women: Chapter 1 - Rural women’s health disparities

Healthcare Strategies and Planning for Social Inclusion and Development Volume 2: Social, Economic, and Health Disparities of Rural Women, 2022, Pages 1-42
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health, Goal 5: Gender Equity, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting social determinants like gender inequality, starvation, nonavailability of basic nutrients, etc. are described in detail, on the basis of social exclusion, disparity, aging issues, domestic violence, and health problem like obstetric and reproduction.
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Kanski's Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology (Fourth edition) - Chapter 15: Hereditary Fundus Dystrophies

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Kanski's Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology (Fourth edition)
2023, Pages 289-303
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing insight on a group of inherited disorders that have an effect on the RPE-photoreceptor complex and choriocapillaris, causing a range of symptoms and in many cases gradual visual loss.
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Healthcare Strategies and Planning for Social Inclusion and Development, V2 – Chapter 4. Nutrition issues and maternal health

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Healthcare Strategies and Planning for Social Inclusion and Development, Volume 2: Social, Economic, and Health Disparities of Rural Women, 2022, Pages 115-158
This chapter focuses on how good quality foods prevent malnutrition in all its forms.
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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Health and population, Global

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