Book chapters

Lakes of Africa - Chapter 18 - African salt lakes: distribution, microbial biodiversity, and biotechnological potential

Elsevier,

Hafsa Yaiche Achour, Sid Ahmed Saadi, Chapter 18 - African salt lakes: distribution, microbial biodiversity, and biotechnological potential, Editor(s): Mostafa El-Sheekh, Hosam Easa Elsaied, Lakes of Africa, Elsevier, 2023, Pages 501-525, ISBN 9780323955270

This content aligns with Goal 14: Life under Water by thoroughly exploring African salt lake distribution and microbial diversity
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SDG:

Goal 14: Life below water

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Science, Africa

Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic - Chapter 3: Converting plastic waste to fuel and fine chemicals

Elsevier,

Circularity of Plastics: Sustainability, Emerging Materials, and Valorization of Waste Plastic, Volume 1, 1 January 2023

This chapter aligns with Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy by explaining that, as plastics are largely derived from fossil fuels, the valorizing of these waste plastics into value-added fuels or chemicals could help tackle the huge plastic waste deposition, contribute to a circular economy, and reduce reliance on the scarce hydrocarbon resource.
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Comprehensive Guide to Hepatitis Advances: Chapter 5 - Antivirals against hepatitis viruses: basic mechanisms

Elsevier,

Comprehensive Guide to Hepatitis Advances

2023, Pages 137-152

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by presenting the antiviral strategies available to treat viral infections, those used to treat chronic viral hepatitis, and the mechanisms of action of drugs approved or at the developmental stage.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Third Edition): Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare - Chapter 26: Population health management

Elsevier,

Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Third Edition): Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare, 2023, Pages 715-725

This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the components of a technical infrastructure to support PHM, including data sources (registries, electronic health records), data analytics tools, patient outreach and engagement tools, and patient tracking dashboards along with real-world examples of PHM programs focused on chronic disease management, genetic testing for hereditary cancers, colorectal cancer screening, COVID-19 testing and vaccination, and tobacco cessation.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

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

Comprehensive Guide to Hepatitis Advances: Chapter 18 - Current paradigm and treatment options for autoimmune hepatitis

Elsevier,

Comprehensive Guide to Hepatitis Advances

2023, Pages 429-441

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by providing the current knowledge regarding standard therapy and suggestions based on the literature for AIH patients being nonresponders to standard therapy and difficult-to-manage AIH patients to standard therapy.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease- Chapter 3: Host factors: Who gets sick and why

Elsevier,

Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python, 2023, Pages 93-119

This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being by exploring the mathematical modeling and host factor models that seek to explain the pathogenic dynamics, where there are meaningful differences in the way different populations transmit disease (β differences), recover from disease (γ differences), or in some other clinically meaningful factor.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewater and Human Health: Chapter 11 - Acquired knowledge and identified gaps in resistance and human health risk

Elsevier,

Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewater and Human Health

2023, Pages 241-254

Drug resistance became widely recognized global threats in last two decades. Knowledge of drug resistance, development of new vaccines and medicines, public awareness program, government support (policies and incentive), development of new diagnostic tool, industrial support in medical research are the need of the hour that will help the mankind to fight back and deal with drug resistance and helps to support SDG3.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

antimicrobial resistance; human health, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America

Waste Biorefineries - Chapter 2: Waste-to-energy (WtE): Current technologies and their future potential

Elsevier,

Waste Biorefineries, pages 25-61

This chapter advances UN SDG goals 7 and 13 by critically evaluating the current status of waste-to-energy (WtE) processes to determine how best to move forward from a few successful WtE demonstrations to commercial-scale processes.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Energy; Water and sanitation, Global

The New Public Health (Fourth Edition); Chapter 4 - Communicable diseases

Elsevier,

The New Public Health (Fourth Edition)

2023, Pages 215-366

This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by examining scientific advances in microbiology and genetics that advance new successes in vaccinology and therapeutics to meet old and new communicable disease challenges, including diseases of poverty in countries at all developmental and income levels.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning: Chapter One - A study on the perceptions of officials on their duties and responsibilities at various levels of the organizational structure

Elsevier,

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning, 2023, pp 1-10

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 8, 9, and 11 by exploring how AI can be utilized by city officials to improve quality of life in sustainable cities.
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SDG:

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Tags:

Sustainable cities and human settlements; Employment decent work for all and social protection; Data & Analytics, Global

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