Search Results - Communicable diseases

Health, nutrition, and population in Madagascar, 2000-09

Table of Contents: “…Country and sector context -- Objectives and organization of the country status report -- Available data and reports -- Demographic trends -- Child health -- Maternal health -- Nutritional status of children and women -- Other communicable diseases contributing to mortality and morbidity in Madagascar -- Non-communicable diseases -- Meeting the millennium development goals (MDGS) -- Behaviors and interventions affecting child health -- Community factors and behaviors affecting nutritional status of children -- Maternal health and reproductive health -- Communicable diseases -- Health care access and utilization by the poor -- Sector organization -- Quality of services -- Financing of the health sector -- Equity of health spending -- Efficiency issues of health spending -- Scope for creating fiscal space -- Potential impact of the crisis on the health sector -- The importance of accountability for health -- Governance and accountability in the Malagasy context.…”
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Basic epidemiology by Beaglehole, R.

Table of Contents: “…What is epidemiology -- Measuring health and disease -- Types of study -- Basic statistics -- Causation in epidemiology -- Epidemiology and prevention -- Communicable disease epidemiology -- Clinical epidemiology -- Environmental and occupational epidemiology -- Epidemiology, health services and health policy -- Continuing your education in epidemiology.…”
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A woman's concise guide to common medical tests by Moore, Michele

Table of Contents: “…-- The annual physical exam -- Pap smears -- Colposcopy -- Screening for breast cancer -- Screening for colon cancer -- Screening for diabetes -- Screening for heart disease -- Screening and testing for communicable disease -- Screening for bone loss -- Vision screening -- Screening in older women -- Screening in pregnancy -- What's left out and why -- Genetic screening -- Laboratory tests -- The positive side of prevention.…”
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Lippincott's Q & A certification review : emergency nursing.

Table of Contents: “…Abdominal emergencies -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Disaster management -- Environmental emergencies -- Maxillofacial emergencies -- Medical emergencies and communicable diseases -- Genitourinary and gynecologic problems -- Neurologic emergencies -- Obstetric emergencies -- Ocular emergencies -- Orthopedic emergencies -- Mental health emergencies -- Patient care management -- Respiratory emergencies -- Shock and multisystem trauma emergencies -- Substance abuse and toxicologic emergencies -- Wound management -- Stabilization and transfer -- Patient and community education -- Legal issues -- Organizational issue and quality improvement.…”
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Home health care provider a guide to essential skills / by Prieto, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Attitudes of aging -- Aging at home -- The companion home care provider -- Interpersonal skills and communications -- Common conditions and diseases of the aging body -- The terminally ill client -- Caring for couples -- About activities -- Planning and preparing meals -- Home safety and household management -- Legal authority and money matters -- Planning for placement.…”
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Textbook of family medicine by McWhinney, Ian R.

Table of Contents: “…The origins of family medicine -- Principles of family medicine -- Illness in the community -- A profile of family practice -- Philosophical and scientific foundations of family medicine -- Illness, suffering, and healing -- Doctor-patient communication -- Clinical method -- The enhancement of health and the prevention of disease -- The family in health and disease -- Acute sore throat -- Headache -- Fatigue -- Hypertension -- Diabetes -- Home care -- Records -- Consultation and referral -- The health professions -- The community service network -- Alternative or complementary medicine -- Practice management -- Continuing self-education -- Research in family practice.…”
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CDC anthrax vaccine safety & efficacy research program interim report /

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Building healthy communities through medical-religious partnerships by Bennett, Richard G. (Richard Gordon)

Table of Contents: “…Healing body, mind, and soul -- Addressing challenges through medical-religious partnerships -- Congregational health education programs -- Coronary heart disease -- Hypertension -- Cancer -- Diabetes mellitus -- Depression -- Dementia -- Influenza and pneumonia -- Advance directives -- Communicating with health care providers -- Modifying common risk factors -- Managing medications -- Accidents and falls -- Community resources -- Innovative medical-religious partnerships -- National organization and resources.…”
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Public health law power, duty, restraint / by Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe)

Table of Contents: “…A theory and definition of public health law -- Public health regulation : a systematic evaluation -- Public health law in the constitutional design : public health power and duties -- Constitutional limits on the exercise of public health powers : safeguarding individual rights and freedoms -- Public health governance : direct regulation for the public's health and safety -- Tort law and the public's health : indirect regulation -- Global health law : health in a global community -- Surveillance and public health research : personal privacy and the "right to know" -- Health, communication, and behavior : freedom of expression -- Medical countermeasures for epidemic disease : bodily integrity -- Public health strategies for epidemic disease : association, travel, and liberty -- Economic liberty and the pursuit of public health -- Concluding reflections on the field.…”
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Liver transplantation rejection, therapy and post-operative complications /

Table of Contents: “…Burke, and Frederick A. Struve -- Short communications B : The model for end-stage liver disease : past, present, and future / Teh-Ia Huo -- Diagnostic of opportunistic parasites in liver transplantation / Ma. de la Luz Galván-Ramírez, Ana Rosa Rincón Sánchez, and Rosa Maria Bernal Redondo -- Fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis / Lisa R. …”
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GI microbiota and regulation of the immune system

Table of Contents: “…Noverr -- The damage-response framework of microbial pathogenesis and infectious diseases / Liise-anne Pirofski and Arturo Casadevall.…”
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Epidemics and the Health of African Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Contending with chronic conditions in African health systems. Non-communicable disease epidemics : approaches to prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa / Pamela A. …”
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Epidemics and the Health of African Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Contending with chronic conditions in African health systems. Non-communicable disease epidemics : approaches to prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa / Pamela A. …”
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Transforming public health practice leadership and management essentials / by Healey, Bernard J., 1947-

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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Foundations of health psychology

Table of Contents: “…Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research / Annette L. …”
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Virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens

Table of Contents: “…Greenberg -- Coaggregation and distance-critical communication / Paul E. Kolenbrander ... [et al.] -- Commensal bacteria in health and disease / Harry J. …”
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Cultivating the colonies colonial states and their environmental legacies /

Table of Contents: “…The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. …”
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Population-based public health clinical manual the Henry Street model for nurses / by Schaffer, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to public health nursing practice -- Evidence-based public health nursing practice -- Competency 1 : applies the public health nursing process to communities, systems, individuals, and families -- Competency 2 : utilizes basic epidemiological principles (the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population) in public health nursing practice -- Competency 3 : utilizes collaboration to achieve public health goals -- Competency 4 : works within the responsibility and authority of the governmental public health system -- Competency 5 : practices public health nursing within the auspices of the nurse practice act -- Competency 6 : effectively communicates with communities, systems, individuals, families, and colleagues -- Competency 7 : establishes and maintains caring relationships with communities, systems, individuals, and families -- Competency 8 : shows evidence of commitment to social justice, the greater good, and the public health principles -- Competency 9 : demonstrates nonjudgmental and unconditional acceptance of people different from self -- Competency 10 : incorporates mental, physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of health into assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation -- Competency 11 : demonstrates leadership in public health nursing with communities, systems, individuals, and families -- Putting it all together : what it means to be a public health nurse.…”
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Health care costs causes, effects and control /

Table of Contents: “…/ Steffen Flessa, Paul Marschall -- Costs of epidemiological changes in chronic diseases in Mexico / Armando Arredondo, Emanuel Orozco, Edson Servan -- Deficit and health reform : two different phenomena? …”
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