This edition, written as South Africa moves from expensive curative health care to a more people-focused primary health-care system, highlights transitional structures and bridges the gap between past and present. Part One focuses on the Government of National Unity and population development programmes, emphasising the role of community nurses in the primary health-care system. Subsequent sections cover factors playing an important role in community nursing, including housing, urbanisation and malnutrition. In accordance with the National Health-care Plan for South Africa, prominence is given to issues such as health education and maternal and child health care. The section on communicable diseases has been updated and takes into account changes in legislation and the latest statistical information. Primary health-care problems at community level are covered in depth. Students and practitioners will benefit from the wealth of information in this new edition.
Diseases, Privies and Rubbish: With Highlights from Guildford's Past
Public Health: Primary health. L2
Provides in-depth coverage of the classical infectious diseases, important tropical diseases and hospital-acquired infections and their management, and includes an extensive section on antimicrobial chemotherapy.
Balfour y Scott hablan de “la influencia maligna de los grandes calores y de la luz brillante [que] afectan muy especialmente a la mujer blanca” (Balfour y Scott 1924) y el Dr. James Christie registra que “la sociedad nativa crea ...
Pestilent Poetry: Or how to be Well-versed in Infectious Diseases Or from AIDS to Zits and Some Stuff in Between
In 1900 a special commission headed by Army doctor Walter Reed went to Cuba to conduct an investigation . Nearly two decades earlier , Dr. Carlos J. Finlay of Havana had theorized that a particular species of mosquito carried the ...
An important part of the ECDC's role is to provide its stakeholders with scientific advice upon request.
Modelling Epidemics has a short introduction to rates and risks of epidemics; models of transmission; the mechanism of herd immunity; epidemiological parameters, such as the reproduction number and the critical immunization threshold as ...
Infectious Diseases and Dermatology
Infection Prevention and Control and Management of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: Guidelines for Health Care Providers in New Zealand Acute and Residential...