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Author: James Umunna Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783848490905 Category : Languages : de Pages : 84
Book Description
Rural areas are areas of limited resources anywhere in the world. However, rural areas in developing countries are more handicapped than their counterparts in developed countries. Nigeria is a developing country.Setting up and running a surgical service in rural areas in Nigeria has many impediments, most of which hinge around limitation of resources. Poverty and disease are prevalent in these areas, many of which are remote from cities .Roads are either in poor state of repairs or not available, access being made to such areas by footpaths or canoes. Potable water is not available in most of them.Public power supply is scarcely available and where it exists, rarely works.Conditions for modern living are absent and the inhabitants feel isolated and neglected. In spite of the many challenges, some surgeons and general duty doctors have made a success of Rural medical and surgical practice by confronting and surmounting most of the challenges.
Author: James Umunna Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783848490905 Category : Languages : de Pages : 84
Book Description
Rural areas are areas of limited resources anywhere in the world. However, rural areas in developing countries are more handicapped than their counterparts in developed countries. Nigeria is a developing country.Setting up and running a surgical service in rural areas in Nigeria has many impediments, most of which hinge around limitation of resources. Poverty and disease are prevalent in these areas, many of which are remote from cities .Roads are either in poor state of repairs or not available, access being made to such areas by footpaths or canoes. Potable water is not available in most of them.Public power supply is scarcely available and where it exists, rarely works.Conditions for modern living are absent and the inhabitants feel isolated and neglected. In spite of the many challenges, some surgeons and general duty doctors have made a success of Rural medical and surgical practice by confronting and surmounting most of the challenges.
Author: Tyler G. Hughes Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323794939 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Rural Surgery and is edited by Dr. Tyler G. Hughes. Articles will include: Status of the rural workplace: Hospital survival and economics; Rural standards and the quality equation; Scope of practice of the rural surgeon; Advanced technology and the rural surgeon; Qualitative research in rural surgery; Perioperative support in the rural surgery world; Initial and ongoing training of the rural surgeon; Demographics in rural populations; Dealing with the sick rural surgery patient in need of transfer; National quality projects and patient selection decisions; Status of the rural surgical workforce; Regionalization of rural surgery; and more!
Author: David Borgstrom Publisher: Clinics: Surgery ISBN: 9781437713893 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 0
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Proposed topics for this issue include: Demographics and Workforce in issues in Rural Surgery; Measuring Quality in Rural Surgery; Education of the Rural Surgeon (Models from Oregon, Wisconsin, Tennessee, MIBH); Rural Surgery - the Australian experience; Working Models (Oklahoma, Iowa, North Dakota); Starting a Rural Surgical Program from Scratch; The Importance of Rural Surgery - The primary care perspective; The Financial Impact of a Rural Surgeon on a Hospital.
Author: Ewan Alufohai Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medicine, Rural Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is a record of the author's experience in private medical practice in a rural, but fast-growing sub-urban, setting in Southern Nigeria, over a period of ten years. It hightlights the diverse surgical cases handled and the several adaptive procedures that he had to take decisions upon in the course of this practice, within the limits of the available facilities and of his creativity and innovation. Although the focus in the discussion is on surgery, the book also documents the author's handling of cases in other specialties. His careful documentation of all of these cases and his overall presentational style make this work a fascinating text that should interest his professional colleagues in surgery and the various specialties highlighted in the author's practice.
Author: Haile T. Debas Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 1464803676 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 445
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Essential Surgery is part of a nine volume series for Disease Control Priorities which focuses on health interventions intended to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Essential Surgery volume focuses on four key aspects including global financial responsibility, emergency procedures, essential services organization and cost analysis.
Author: Archampong, E.Q. Publisher: Sub-Saharan Publishers ISBN: 9988860226 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 240
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Worldwide, there is a plethora of study materials in the form of authoritative review articles on disease entities afflicting the Western world but relatively few publications exploring similar problems confronting the developing countries, where resource limitation adds an extra dimension to the challenges facing the clinician. The contributions in this Reader address common surgical challenges and what measures have evolved to countenance these problems. This therefore addresses "Current Surgical Practice", placing emphasis on the principles underlying the consensus opinions prevailing in surgical management. The approach is practical, avoiding the minutiae of procedures for which appropriate references detailing such information are provided. The contributions have come from a broad suave of critical management problems in the salient fields of surgery. Regrettably some urgent areas of public interest are not covered but it is clear that this volume represents the beginning of a process, yea, the initiation of an epoch of Recent Advances in Surgical Practice; we are confident that such yawning gaps in coverage would soon be made good by subsequent developments, stimulated by issuance of this publication.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030946921X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 161
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Author: Michael J. Balboni Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190272430 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 433
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Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship. In Part 1, the book examines the relationship of religion, spirituality, and the practice of medicine by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent empirical research of religion/spirituality within twelve distinct fields of medicine including pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine, surgery, palliative care, and medical ethics. Written by leading clinician researchers in their fields, contributors provide case examples and highlight best practices when engaging religion/spirituality within clinical practice. This is the first collection that assesses how the medical context interacts with patient spirituality recognizing crucial differences between contexts from obstetrics and family medicine, to nursing, to gerontology and the ICU. Recognizing the interdisciplinary aspects of spirituality, religion, and health, Part 2 of the book turns to academic scholarship outside the field of medicine to consider cultural dimensions that form clinical practice. Social-scientific, practical, and humanity fields include psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, history, philosophy, and theology. This is the first time in a single volume that readers can reflect on these multi-dimensional, complex issues with contributions from leading scholars. In Part III, the book concludes with a synthesis, identifying the best studies in the field of religion and health, ongoing weaknesses in research, and highlighting what can be confidently believed based on prior studies. The synthesis also considers relations between the empirical literature on religion and health and the theological and religious traditions, discussing places of convergence and tension, as well as remainingopen questions for further reflection and research. This book will provide trainees and clinicians with an introduction to the field of spirituality, religion, and medicine, and its multi-disciplinary approach will give researchers and scholars in the field a critical and up-to-date analysis.
Author: DAVID OYEBOLA MD Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1645155471 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 295
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This book is written to provide information on various aspects of Yoruba, and, indeed, African traditional medicine. The writer's research on Yoruba traditional medicine provides the bulk of the materials in the book. The book consists of eleven chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 provide the background to the book. Chapters 3 to 10 encapsulate the different aspects of Yoruba traditional medicine such as classification of healers, methods of training of healers, methods of diagnosis and investigation of diseases, treatment of diseases, Yoruba pharmacopoeia, midwifery, bone-setting, and other forms of traditional surgery. Chapter 11 describes the meeting point of hospitals and healers; this meeting point, in the opinion of the author, should be how best to serve the interests of the patients. The best form of relationship that should exist between hospitals and healers is also discussed. The two systems of medicine exist side by side in Nigeria and most African countries yet remain functionally unrelated in any intentional sense. It is argued that no medical system is perfect and no single care system has all the answers to all human health and related problems. Each of the two systems has its strong and weak points. The often talked-about integration of the two systems has potential pitfalls and may be undesirable. The book concludes that the best form of relationship may well be one of genuine cooperation and mutual respect between the two systems since this will lead, in the ultimate, to advancement of medical knowledge and overall improvement of patient care. All levels of government in Nigeria have decisive roles to play in achieving this mutually beneficial cooperation of the two systems.
Author: James Umunna
Author: James Umunna
Author: Tyler G. Hughes
Author: David Borgstrom
Author: Ewan Alufohai
Author: Haile T. Debas
Author: Archampong, E.Q.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: World Health Organization
Author: Michael J. Balboni
Author: DAVID OYEBOLA MD