Filled with short, succinct chapters written by experts in the field of Adolescent Medicine, this handbook covers the major health issues that practicing clinicians regularly encounter in the care of teens and young adults.
This comprehensive text provides information on fundamental principles of clinical practice and how these can be implemented to provide excellent treatment to the patients.
This Handbook outlines in detail the features and challenges of rural and remote mental health service delivery and pragmatic considerations to address these, to ensure people in less populated areas receive an equivalent quality of service to their city-dwelling counterparts.
This book focuses on the representation of dermatological diseases in pigmented skin, fills an important gap in the literature, and facilitates better dermatological diagnosis when dealing with patients of various ethnicities.
This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach with a wide scope of perspectives on primary healthcare, describing related principles, care models, practices and social contexts.
The book covers basic theories, basic knowledge and basic skills on clinical diagnosis, basic requirements for doctors' ethical conduct, clinical reasoning and documentation of medical records during the process of making a diagnosis.
This book provides discussions on bronchial asthma from a clinical perspective, focusing on the recent studies on its pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
This new edition now titled "e;Human Chromosome Variation: Heteromorphism, Polymorphism and Pathogenesis"e; provides the reader with an up-to-date overview of microarrays, fragile sites, copy number variations and whole genome sequencing.
"Las últimas décadas han evidenciado no solamente un creciente interés acerca de todo lo concerniente a la vejez y a los viejos, sino acerca de las diversas perspectivas desde las cuales se ha abordado el envejecimiento, tan diversas como las múltiples facetas que componen este proceso.
"Ejercer la medicina: enfoque práctico, segundo volumen, expone el abordaje diagnóstico y terapéutico de distintas patologías, basadas en la evidencia científica y la experiencia médica, en las instituciones prestadoras de salud de I nivel de complejidad y en especial, las que se encuentran ubicadas en el área rural, de difícil acceso o zonas dispersas de Colombia.
"Dentro del marco del programa de Medicina de la Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud el curso de las Actividades Integradoras del Aprendizaje por Sistemas, AIAS del Sistema Nervioso es una oportunidad de comprender un sistema complejo, en el cual los aspectos básicos, clínicos, sociales, históricos y legales, son necesarios para poder tener una aproximación completa.
La sociedad necesita médicos valoradores bien formados, que sepan aplicar de forma técnica las herramientas de baremología (métodos de valoración del daño a la persona), para apoyar los procesos que tratan de lograr reparación y compensación justa de las diferentes lesiones y trastornos de las personas, con el fin de conseguir equilibrio social y sana convivencia.
This handbook provides tools for nurse educators, ethics educators, practicing nurses and allied health professionals for developing confidence and skill in ethical decision making in interdisciplinary settings such as acute and chronic care hospitals and clinics.
This book (anupdated and extended edition) is about mobilizing women and health care policymakers and providers to unite their efforts in a single strategy for fightingcervical cancer worldwide.
More than half a million people worldwide are now sustained by renal replacement therapy, mainly hemodialysis at a cost exceeding USD 30 billion per year.
During September 10-14, 1984, we held a Research Workshop at the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, California, bringing togeth- er leaders in the field of electronic spatial sensors for the blind from the psychology, engineering, and rehabilitation areas.
The Membership examination of the Royal College of General Practitioners has evolved and matured as a seal and a test on completion of vocational training.
This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists.
In the sixth edition of this work John Fry has reverted to the format of the earlier editions published in 1965, 1970 and 1973 and has presented statistical data drawn widely from many sources.
The fact that there are special problems in the care of the elderly in the community is ample justification for writing a separate volume on the subject.
One of the few real and lasting benefits of international medical meetings is the opportunity to meet, talk, gossip and get to know colleagues from other countries.
In writing this short monograph on 'Problems in Peripheral Vascular Disease', I have tried to steer a course between a simplistic dogmatic approach more appropriate to an under- graduate text, and a detailed specialist treatise of interest only to vascular surgeons.
WHY WE MUST PRACTISE TRANSCULTURAL MEDICINE Health professionals and GPs should concern themselves with ethnicity, religion and culture as much as with the age, sex and social class of their patients.
