Download or read book Palau Primary Health Care Manual written by Stephen Dahmer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Palau in the Caroline Islands has a traditional medical system developed over many generations. The Palau Primary Health Care Manual compiles traditional ethnomedical information about plants and presents it within the context of Western Medicine. Many common health conditions are discussed in this book, including those specific to Palauan culture. The book is divided into chapters that discuss plant therapies used in traditional medical care including preventive medicine, chronic disease, bites and stings, diarrhea and gastrointestinal disorders, skin disorders, cuts, wounds, and broken bones, stress, pain, women's health, men's health, colds and flu, and ear, nose, and throat. Also provided is scientific information about each species including efficacy, pharmacology, and potential toxicity, where known. It is intended as an educational manual for Palau and the Pacific region, an area where traditional medicine and some of the plants used in its practice, are endangered resources. Based on extensive on-island research and a comprehensive review of the literature, the book has been produced by a group of Palauan and international experts, specialists in ethnomedicine, clinical care, public health, biology, conservation, and Pacific Island culture.
Download or read book Plants People and Culture written by Michael J Balick and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed, clothe, and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs, for example, were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world, the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks. Plants also garnered religious significance, both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from, rather than opposing, indigenous peoples and their beliefs. KEY FEATURES • An engrossing narrative that invites the reader to personally engage with the relationship between plants, people, and culture • Full-color illustrations throughout—including many original photographs captured by the authors during fieldwork • New to this edition—"Plants That Harm," a chapter that examines the dangers of poisonous plants and the promise that their study holds for novel treatments for some of our most serious diseases, including Alzheimer’s and substance addiction • Additional readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further exploration • Boxed features on selected topics that offer further insight • Provocative questions to facilitate group discussion Designed for the college classroom as well as for lay readers, this update of Plants, People, and Culture entices the reader with firsthand stories of fieldwork, spectacular illustrations, and a deep respect for both indigenous peoples and the earth’s natural heritage.
Download or read book Primary Clinical Care Manual written by Lucy Wagstaff and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive practical reference guide for medical, nursing, and para-medical personnel that sets out guidelines for the diagnosis and management of primary clinical conditions.
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book Occupational Health in National Development written by J. Jeyaratnam and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the process of nation building, the health of the working population becomes a key factor. With the introduction of new technologies, foreign labour and changes in working patterns, the health of the working population will be affected. Health care workers, administrators and politicians will be confronted with these occupational health issues.This book outlines the various occupational health issues in national development and proposes a system of planning for the health services for the working population. It is the result of a two week ICOH Seminar where international experts addressed the issue of developing occupational health services for various countries.
Download or read book Interior Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2011 Part 2 111 2 Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Directions in Conservation Medicine written by A. Alonso Aguirre and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, species and ecosystems have been threatened by many anthropogenic factors manifested in local and global declines of populations and species. Although we consider conservation medicine an emerging field, the concept is the result of the long evolution of transdisciplinary thinking within the health and ecological sciences and the better understanding of the complexity within these various fields of knowledge. Conservation medicine was born from the cross fertilization of ideas generated by this new transdisciplinary design. It examines the links among changes in climate, habitat quality, and land use; emergence and re-emergence of infectious agents, parasites and environmental contaminants; and maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions as they sustain the health of plant and animal communities including humans. During the past ten years, new tools and institutional initiatives for assessing and monitoring ecological health concerns have emerged: landscape epidemiology, disease ecological modeling and web-based analytics. New types of integrated ecological health assessment are being deployed; these efforts incorporate environmental indicator studies with specific biomedical diagnostic tools. Other innovations include the development of non-invasive physiological and behavioral monitoring techniques; the adaptation of modern molecular biological and biomedical techniques; the design of population level disease monitoring strategies; the creation of ecosystem-based health and sentinel species surveillance approaches; and the adaptation of health monitoring systems for appropriate developing country situations. New Directions of Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health addresses these issues with relevant case studies and detailed applied examples. New Directions of Conservation Medicine challenges the notion that human health is an isolated concern removed from the bounds of ecology and species interactions. Human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are moving closer together and at some point, it will be inconceivable that there was ever a clear division.
Download or read book Primary Clinical Care Manual 8th Edition A4 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highlights written by United States. Office of Territories and published by . This book was released on with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Clinical Care Manual 10th Edition 2019 written by Rural and Remote Clinical Support Unit and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of an Epidemic of Hepatitis A in Palau January June 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Clinical Care Manual 2011 written by North Queensland Rural Health Training Unit and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides clear and concise clinical care guidelines and health management protocols especially for endorsed registered nurses and authorised Indigenous health workers, particularly those in rural hospitals, isolated practice areas and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs.
Download or read book Health Care for the Elderly written by Ghada Hafez and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the health needs and basic care of the elderly in Eastern Mediterranean countries, where ageing of the population is a comparatively new trend. The manual is designed for use during a simple training course for primary health care workers. Information is presented in seven self-contained modules. The first provides tips and advice on effective teaching using problem-based methods. The remaining modules outline the training needed to help primary health care workers perform a number of simple tasks, such as collecting information about the elderly in a community, recognizing the signs of common disorders and disabilities, helping to prevent accidents and injuries, and knowing when a patient must be referred to a doctor. Information on nutritional needs in the elderly, and the foods to choose or avoid, is also provided. Numerous drawings, model forms, and boxed points to remember are used to illustrate the many simple yet vital things primary health care workers can do to prevent or manage the special health problems of the elderly.
Download or read book Where There is No Psychiatrist written by Vikram Patel and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though mental illnesses are common and cause great suffering in every part of the world, many health workers have a limited understanding about mental health and are less comfortable dealing with mental illness. This book is a practical manual for mental health care for the community health worker, the primary care nurse, the social worker and the primary care doctor, particularly in developing countries. After giving the reader a basic understanding of mental illness, the book goes on to describe more than 30 clinical problems associated with mental illness and uses a problem-solving approach to guide the reader through their assessment and management. Mental health issues as they arise in specific health care contexts are described, for example in a refugee camp, a school health programme or with people suffering from AIDS, as well as in mental health promotion. The final section combines quick reference information for common problems and it also includes chapters for the reader to personalise the manual for a particular location, for example, by entering local information on voluntary agencies, the names and costs of medicines and words in the local language for emotional symptoms.
Download or read book Health Care Manual for Community Health Workers written by Clifford Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of Primary Health Care written by Peter M. M. Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
