Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 15: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 233-251
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease of the motor system characterized by focal and then generalized weakness leading to paralysis and death from respiratory failure.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 17: Huntington disease

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 275-292
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing information on the clinical features, ethics, and neurobiology of HD and the exciting approaches being employed today to advance understanding of underlying mechanisms in an effort to develop therapies that would delay the onset and slow progression of this disease.
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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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Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design- Chapter 7: Deep learning in urban analysis for health

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Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design, Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts, 2022, Pages 121-138
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health by providing an overview of research on the use of image data of the built environment to analyze impacts on human health and explaining the challenges that need to be addressed to realize a new data-driven era of urban analysis and planning.
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Essential Human Virology (Second Edition): Chapter 12 - Hepatitis Viruses

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Essential Human Virology (Second Edition), 2023, Pages 231-253
This chapter aligns with the SDG goal 3 of good health and wellbeing by showing the clinical aspects, epidemiology, and molecular virology of the major hepatitis viruses.
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Translational Autoimmunity: Chapter 15 - Autoimmunity of the liver

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Translational Autoimmunity, Autoimmune Diseases in Different Organs, Volume 4 in Translational Immunology, 2022, Pages 309-331
This chapter aligns with the SDG goal 3 of good health and wellbeing by examining current efforts to treat patients who do not adequately respond to standard immunosuppressive treatments as well as to find novel noninvasive biomarkers that can reliably substitute liver histology in assessing liver fibrosis and in predicting hard long-term outcomes.
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Hepatic Fibrosis - Chapter 8 - Chronic viral hepatitis induced liver fibrosis

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Hepatic Fibrosis, Mechanisms and Targets, 2022, Pages 175-192
This chapter aligns with the SDG goal 3 of good health and wellbeing by showing the evolution of chronic viral hepatitis from fibrosis, to cirrhosis, and to hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Feedback Control for Personalized Medicine: Chapter 9 - A stochastic model for hepatitis C viral infection dynamics with the innate immune response

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Feedback Control for Personalized Medicine, 2022, Pages 173-188
This chapter aligns with the SDG goal 3 of good health and wellbeing by showing the role of the IFITM1 protein in the hepatitis dynamics, obtaining the clearance state when overexpressed.
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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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