Assistive Technology Service Delivery: 4 - Wearable solution for robust fall detection

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Assistive Technology for the Elderly 2020, Pages 81-105
This book chapter advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reducing Inequalities by exploring a fall-detection monitoring solution that implements both accelerometer and sound-based detection algorithm.
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Chapter 8 - Smartphone addiction

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Adolescent Addiction (Second Edition), Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment, Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional, 2020, Pages 215-240
This chapter addresses Goal 3 by discussing smartphone addiction in adolescents.
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Introduction to Emergency Management (Seventh Edition): Chapter 8 - International Disaster Management

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Introduction to Emergency Management (Seventh Edition), 2020, Pages 349-401
This chapter supports SDGs 3 and 16 by describing disaster management in the international context and introduces the community of international disaster management stakeholders (which includes governmental agencies, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and financial institutions) that support the preparedness for, mitigation of, response to, and recovery from disaster events.
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Access to justice; Disaster risk reduction; Health and wellbeing; Disaster Recovery, Global

Food and Society - Chapter 12: Food: natural and environmental considerations

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Food and Society, 2020, Pages 247-255

Environmentalism and sustainability are two buzzwords that have come to represent an awakening of the people's collective conscience over the last two decades or so.

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Health and wellbeing; Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions - Chapter 10: Steering through the waves and adjusting to transitions in dementia

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Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions: Riding the Waves, Volume , 4 February 2020
This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 17 by focusing on the need to establish equilibrium and well-being and is organized around eight themes using the acronym R-E-A-D-J-U-S-T. The chapter ties these themes with a call for more research and reinforcement for inclusion of the voices of people with dementia.
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Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions - Chapter 5: Hospitalization of persons with dementia

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Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions: Riding the Waves, Volume , 4 February 2020
This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 17 by describing the prevalence of dementia in hospitalized patients, reasons for hospitalizations, and risks to older people with dementia in hospitals. Strategies for optimizing outcomes and models of care that are designed to improve care of persons with dementia and their care partners are described to assist healthcare team members working with this unique population.
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Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions - Chapter 1: Improving the lived experience of dementia transitions

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Evidence-informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions: Riding the Waves, Volume , 4 February 2020
This book chapter advances SDGs 3 and 17 by introducing aspects of the lived experience, management, and epidemiology of dementia and some of the significant transitions that people with the disease and their caregivers frequently encounter.
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Chapter 26 - “Dear People of Flint”: environmental justice in a community context, the case of water contamination in Flint, Michigan

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An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Toxicology, From Molecules to Man, 2020, Pages 353-361
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, a human made disaster of dire proportions, resulted in bacterial and lead contamination of predominantly African American and low-income residents. SDG 6 promotes to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
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Health and wellbeing; Poverty eradication; Water and sanitation, North America

Chapter 25 - Love canal: a classic case study of a contaminated community

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An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Toxicology, From Molecules to Man, 2020, Pages 341-352
This chapter examines the contaminated community phenomenon by situating it within social science scholarship on hazards and disasters. The goal of SDG target 3.9 is to substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination.
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Health and wellbeing; Chemicals and waste, Global

Design for Health: Chapter 16 - Design for Global Health

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Design for Health, 2020, Pages 323-340
This chapter advances SDG 3 by exploring the current state of design as applied to global health, models of how it is carried out, and some of the questions that arise for practitioners.
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