Public and Environmental Health. Shaping Tomorrow for a Sustainable Future

Table of Contents

PART I: Basic aspects of public health
1. Global health challenges: Addressing worldwide health issues
2. Epidemiology and biostatistics: Foundations and applications
3. The molecular revolution in healthcare: A paradigm shift
4. Health policy and management
5. Health equity and social justice: Promoting fairness in health
6. Public health law and ethics: Legal framework for harm reduction and social justice
7. Sustainable development: Strategies to attain public health sustainability
8. CBRN threat landscape, emergency preparedness, and response
9. Coordinated crisis management in disaster and humanitarian response
10. “Health information and marketing -effective communication Strategies” Guiding consumers through the noise
11. Digital health programs
12. Digital communication strategy for promoting environment friendly-feminism with special reference to sustainable health and menstrual hygiene: An empirical eco-feminism perspective in the Indian context
13. Innovations in health management through digitalization

PART II: Behavior and psychological health
14. Behavioral and mental health: Understanding and addressing key issues
15. Adolescent mental health with a focus on depression traits: A cross-sectional study in Kochi, Kerala
16. Nature and nurture: Environmental well-being shapes mental health outcomes
17. Psychological perspectives on modern mental health challenges: Technology, family dynamics and emerging stressors
18. Advances in the educational strategies in personalized learning for children with autism spectrum disorders

PART III: Environment and occupational health issues
19. Public health and environmental health implications of pesticides and mitigation strategies for pesticides
20. Contaminated water: Adolescent vulnerability to hepatitis
21. Significance of sanitation from human health perspective?A review
22. Climate change and infectious diseases
23. Pathogens, pollutants, and preservation: Biodiversity’s role in mitigating health risks
24. Understanding occupational health: A deep dive into hazards, diseases, and safety strategies
25. Occupational health hazards of coir workers: A cross-sectional study from Alappuzha district, Kerala

PART IV: Nutrition and public health concerns
26. Public health nutrition: Issues, strategies, and policy perspectives
27. Public health nutrition: Promoting healthy dietary practices
28. Public health nutrition: Promoting healthy dietary practices for cardiovascular health
29. Food adulteration be preservatives, colors etc.?Control strategies
30. Food for thought: Nutritional interventions to support mental wellness in communities

PART V: Concerns about some ailments in public
31. Transforming public health: The impact of nanotechnology in pathogen detection
32. Malocclusion and public health
33. Geriatric health: Issues and solutions
34. Cardiac aging and biomarkers of aging-related cardiac diseases
35. Therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases
36. Shining new light on community health resilience with special focus on vision impairment and optometry services needed at the primary healthcare level
37. Polycystic ovarian syndrome and infertility
38. Frontotemporal dementia: Pathogenesis and treatment
39. A multidimensional approach to retinal dystrophies: Bridging advanced therapeutics, nutrition, and personalized care
40. Public health challenges in the holistic approach of curing cancer
41. Gut as a gateway to health and disease

Authors

Ranbir Chander Sobti Professor (Emeritus), Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Ranbir Chander (RC) Sobti is Emeritus Professor at Punjab University, Chandigarh, and Honorary Scientist at the Indian National Science Academy. He started his career as a cytogeneticist and progressed to molecular biology and disease processes of cancer, COPD, AIDS, metabolic syndrome, and kidney diseases. He is a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences India, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Medical Sciences, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Canadian Academy of Cardiovascular Diseases Royal Society of biology and international Association of Cancer Research. Dr. Sobti has participated in several book projects, including Elsevier's Advances in Animal Experimentation and Modeling; Biomarkers in Cancer Detection and Monitoring of Therapeutics; Molecular Medicine and Biomedical Research in the Era of Precision Medicine; One Planet, One Health, One Future; Probiotics; and Public and Environmental Health. Aastha Sobti Doctoral student, Department of Immunotechnology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Aastha Sobti is a Doctoral student at the Department of Immunotechnology at Lund University, Sweden. Her research areas interests include translational medicine, clinical dentistry, cancer immunology, biomarkers, diagnostics and medical oncology. Aastha Sobti has written two books with Elsevier: "Biomarkers in Cancer Detection and Monitoring of Therapeutics" (2023) and Molecular Medicine and Biomedical Research in the Era of Precision Medicine (2025).