Author : Elma W. Kortenbout
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Communicable disease
ISBN : 9781770255258
The CD-ROM contains case studies, questions and answers, visual references and useful additional material.
Author : Eskild Petersen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1119971624
This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region (e.g. antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in Southeast Asia). For the clinician, this book is a tool to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, as well the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. For the travel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising long-term travelers.
Author : Elma W. Kortenbout
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Communicable disease
ISBN : 9781770255258
The CD-ROM contains case studies, questions and answers, visual references and useful additional material.
Author : P. N. Nzimande
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN :
Author : Marie E. Vlok
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1996-01-28
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : 9780702133107
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.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309171105
In October 1999, the Forum on Emerging Infections of the Institute of Medicine convened a two-day workshop titled "International Aspects of Emerging Infections." Key representatives from the international community explored the forces that drive emerging infectious diseases to prominence. Representatives from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe made formal presentations and engaged in panel discussions. Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective includes summaries of the formal presentations and suggests an agenda for future action. The topics addressed cover a wide range of issues, including trends in the incidence of infectious diseases around the world, descriptions of the wide variety of factors that contribute to the emergence and reemergence of these diseases, efforts to coordinate surveillance activities and responses within and across borders, and the resource, research, and international needs that remain to be addressed.
Author : Merle De Haan
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780702119613
This comprehensive resource covers the public and community health and well-being of the populations of Southern Africa, providing an invaluable look at the region and the developmental issues that impact health through demography; disease profiles; social, economic, and political issues; and other threats to health. This updated edition includes detailed information on the roles and functions of the various United Nations agencies at work in the region. Among other diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are addressed.
Author : Ezekiel Kalipeni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351805347
The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. This book is timely, as the international community has moved from the MDGs to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a new human development agenda. Contributions and case studies are situated in the revised Epidemiologic and Nutrition Transition Model to capture the current situation, referencing communicable and NCDs on the African continent. The case studies encapsulated aim to help minimize negative health outcomes and improve population health, well-being, and equity in the future. This book will be significant in policy circles to assist international organizations, governments, and United Nations agencies. It aims to chart the future for health in Africa in light of recently adopted SDGs. This book is also a useful complementary reader for global public health related courses.
Author : ADJAYE-GBEWONYO VAUGHAN
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781787357051
