The Pan African medical journal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kampala, Uganda, : African Field Epidemiology Network |
Disciplina | 615 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Africa
Epidemiology - Africa Medicine Médecine - Afrique Épidémiologie - Afrique Medicina - África Epidemiología - África Epidemiology |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodical
Periodicals Revistas |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | PAMJ |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996204256803316 |
Kampala, Uganda, : African Field Epidemiology Network | ||
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The Pan African medical journal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kampala, Uganda, : African Field Epidemiology Network |
Disciplina | 615 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Africa
Epidemiology - Africa Medicine Médecine - Afrique Épidémiologie - Afrique Medicina - África Epidemiología - África Epidemiology |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodical
Periodicals Revistas |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | PAMJ |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145002603321 |
Kampala, Uganda, : African Field Epidemiology Network | ||
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Principles of medicine in Africa / / edited by David Mabey [and four others] [[electronic resource]] |
Edizione | [Fourth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 913 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 616.0096 |
Collana | Cambridge medicine Principles of medicine in Africa |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Africa
Epidemiology - Africa |
ISBN |
1-139-60997-1
0-511-75166-4 1-139-61183-6 1-139-62113-0 1-283-94315-8 1-139-62485-7 1-139-61555-6 1-139-60846-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Section 1 Health and disease; Chapter 1 People and the environment; What problems and issues does this history raise?; Why should this person? WHO; Orphans; Old people; People at home; Poverty; Culture, customs, health and disease; Cultural beliefs and practices; Practices derived from beliefs; Health-seeking behaviour, traditional and orthodox medical practice; Treatment; The perceived burden of disease; Work, employment and occupations; Hazards of employment and of industrial work; Hazards and traditional occupations; The vulnerable subsistence farmer
HabitsAlcohol; Tobacco and smoking; Drugs and the use of khat (chaat); Why should this person from this place?; Home and shelter; Quality of housing; Action; Access to health care; Movement of people; Urban movement; Small rural movements; Large rural movements; Effects of movement on people; Why should this person fom this place present in this way?; Fever in a migrant to Kampala from western Uganda; Hand lacerations in a 28-year-old accountant; Fever and abdominal pain in a laboratory assistant; Drowsiness in a 15-year-old schoolboy Why should this patient, from this place present in this way at this time? The effects of seasons on health and diseaseSeasons, food and work; Movement of people to find work during the slack farming season; Food supply; Food prices; Food storage; Agricultural work; Domestic work; Nutrition; Seasonal deficiencies and intoxications; Drought; Drought forces people to eat; Seasonal disease, hazards and seasonal activities; Seasonal changes in transmission of infection; Vectors and intermediate hosts; 1. Mosquitoes and yellow fever; 2. Cyclops and guinea-worm; 3. Snails and schistosomiasis Bacteria and virusesAirborne infections; Meningococcal meningitis; Measles; Water-borne infections; Direct contact through skin; Louse-borne relapsing fever (Chapter 27); Endemic syphilis and tropical ulcer (in Chapter 74); Yaws; People; Infections and contact with vectors or organisms; Other seasonal influences on health and disease; Births and deaths; Health services; Travel and roads; The map of Africa; Water; Geographical regions; Mediterranean zone; Desert and semidesert; Sahel and savannah; Rainforest; Highlands; The major crops and staples; Millet; Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Maize CassavaYam; Plantain and Musa spp.; Rice; Minor staples; Effects of the climate of Africa on people; Heat gain and heat loss; Conduction, convection and radiation; Methods for losing heat; Vasodilatation and small changes to lose heat; Sweat and large changes to lose heat; The dehydrated patient; Acute salt and water depletion; Production of heat; Fat and lean people; Clothes; Hot and dry climate; Hot and wet (humid) climate; Acclimatization; Acclimatization and heat load; After acclimatization; Ability to acclimatize; Heat exhaustion syndrome; Heatstroke; Prevention; Clinical features Investigations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462853803321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Principles of medicine in Africa / / edited by David Mabey [and four others] [[electronic resource]] |
Edizione | [Fourth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 913 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 616.0096 |
Collana | Cambridge medicine Principles of medicine in Africa |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Africa
Epidemiology - Africa |
ISBN |
1-139-60997-1
0-511-75166-4 1-139-61183-6 1-139-62113-0 1-283-94315-8 1-139-62485-7 1-139-61555-6 1-139-60846-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Section 1 Health and disease; Chapter 1 People and the environment; What problems and issues does this history raise?; Why should this person? WHO; Orphans; Old people; People at home; Poverty; Culture, customs, health and disease; Cultural beliefs and practices; Practices derived from beliefs; Health-seeking behaviour, traditional and orthodox medical practice; Treatment; The perceived burden of disease; Work, employment and occupations; Hazards of employment and of industrial work; Hazards and traditional occupations; The vulnerable subsistence farmer
HabitsAlcohol; Tobacco and smoking; Drugs and the use of khat (chaat); Why should this person from this place?; Home and shelter; Quality of housing; Action; Access to health care; Movement of people; Urban movement; Small rural movements; Large rural movements; Effects of movement on people; Why should this person fom this place present in this way?; Fever in a migrant to Kampala from western Uganda; Hand lacerations in a 28-year-old accountant; Fever and abdominal pain in a laboratory assistant; Drowsiness in a 15-year-old schoolboy Why should this patient, from this place present in this way at this time? The effects of seasons on health and diseaseSeasons, food and work; Movement of people to find work during the slack farming season; Food supply; Food prices; Food storage; Agricultural work; Domestic work; Nutrition; Seasonal deficiencies and intoxications; Drought; Drought forces people to eat; Seasonal disease, hazards and seasonal activities; Seasonal changes in transmission of infection; Vectors and intermediate hosts; 1. Mosquitoes and yellow fever; 2. Cyclops and guinea-worm; 3. Snails and schistosomiasis Bacteria and virusesAirborne infections; Meningococcal meningitis; Measles; Water-borne infections; Direct contact through skin; Louse-borne relapsing fever (Chapter 27); Endemic syphilis and tropical ulcer (in Chapter 74); Yaws; People; Infections and contact with vectors or organisms; Other seasonal influences on health and disease; Births and deaths; Health services; Travel and roads; The map of Africa; Water; Geographical regions; Mediterranean zone; Desert and semidesert; Sahel and savannah; Rainforest; Highlands; The major crops and staples; Millet; Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Maize CassavaYam; Plantain and Musa spp.; Rice; Minor staples; Effects of the climate of Africa on people; Heat gain and heat loss; Conduction, convection and radiation; Methods for losing heat; Vasodilatation and small changes to lose heat; Sweat and large changes to lose heat; The dehydrated patient; Acute salt and water depletion; Production of heat; Fat and lean people; Clothes; Hot and dry climate; Hot and wet (humid) climate; Acclimatization; Acclimatization and heat load; After acclimatization; Ability to acclimatize; Heat exhaustion syndrome; Heatstroke; Prevention; Clinical features Investigations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786033403321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Principles of medicine in Africa / / edited by David Mabey [and four others] [[electronic resource]] |
Edizione | [Fourth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 913 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 616.0096 |
Collana | Cambridge medicine Principles of medicine in Africa |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Africa
Epidemiology - Africa |
ISBN |
1-139-60997-1
0-511-75166-4 1-139-61183-6 1-139-62113-0 1-283-94315-8 1-139-62485-7 1-139-61555-6 1-139-60846-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Section 1 Health and disease; Chapter 1 People and the environment; What problems and issues does this history raise?; Why should this person? WHO; Orphans; Old people; People at home; Poverty; Culture, customs, health and disease; Cultural beliefs and practices; Practices derived from beliefs; Health-seeking behaviour, traditional and orthodox medical practice; Treatment; The perceived burden of disease; Work, employment and occupations; Hazards of employment and of industrial work; Hazards and traditional occupations; The vulnerable subsistence farmer
HabitsAlcohol; Tobacco and smoking; Drugs and the use of khat (chaat); Why should this person from this place?; Home and shelter; Quality of housing; Action; Access to health care; Movement of people; Urban movement; Small rural movements; Large rural movements; Effects of movement on people; Why should this person fom this place present in this way?; Fever in a migrant to Kampala from western Uganda; Hand lacerations in a 28-year-old accountant; Fever and abdominal pain in a laboratory assistant; Drowsiness in a 15-year-old schoolboy Why should this patient, from this place present in this way at this time? The effects of seasons on health and diseaseSeasons, food and work; Movement of people to find work during the slack farming season; Food supply; Food prices; Food storage; Agricultural work; Domestic work; Nutrition; Seasonal deficiencies and intoxications; Drought; Drought forces people to eat; Seasonal disease, hazards and seasonal activities; Seasonal changes in transmission of infection; Vectors and intermediate hosts; 1. Mosquitoes and yellow fever; 2. Cyclops and guinea-worm; 3. Snails and schistosomiasis Bacteria and virusesAirborne infections; Meningococcal meningitis; Measles; Water-borne infections; Direct contact through skin; Louse-borne relapsing fever (Chapter 27); Endemic syphilis and tropical ulcer (in Chapter 74); Yaws; People; Infections and contact with vectors or organisms; Other seasonal influences on health and disease; Births and deaths; Health services; Travel and roads; The map of Africa; Water; Geographical regions; Mediterranean zone; Desert and semidesert; Sahel and savannah; Rainforest; Highlands; The major crops and staples; Millet; Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor); Maize CassavaYam; Plantain and Musa spp.; Rice; Minor staples; Effects of the climate of Africa on people; Heat gain and heat loss; Conduction, convection and radiation; Methods for losing heat; Vasodilatation and small changes to lose heat; Sweat and large changes to lose heat; The dehydrated patient; Acute salt and water depletion; Production of heat; Fat and lean people; Clothes; Hot and dry climate; Hot and wet (humid) climate; Acclimatization; Acclimatization and heat load; After acclimatization; Ability to acclimatize; Heat exhaustion syndrome; Heatstroke; Prevention; Clinical features Investigations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808517303321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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