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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
Hesperian's classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world. Useful for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs, with millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems. This 2007 reprint includes new material on preventing the transmission of blood-borne diseases, how HIV/AIDS is reflected in many health issues, and basic Antiretroviral treatment information, as well as updated information on children and aspirin, stomach ulcers, hepatitis, and malaria treatments..
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Where There Is No Vet
Where There is No Vet is more than just a book on first aid for animals It aims to help people keep their animals healthy. It covers a wide range of topics that affect the health of livestock, from diarrhea to rinderpest, from helpful traditional remedies to the uses of modern medicines and vaccines. It includes advice on the care, feeding and handling of animals. By describing the signs of disease to look for, it helps readers to work out what is wrong with an animal and then tells them what to do about it. Special emphasis is placed on preventing and controlling diseases and problems. The book covers routine treatments, assisting births and dealing with emergencies and simple operations. Not only does it help readers realize what they can do for their own animals, it also helps them recognize which problems need assistance from experienced vets or skilled workers. The book deals with cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, donkeys and camels. It also describes some important problems of dogs, rabbits and poultry. The book is essential for anyone who keeps animals and for people who help advise or teach others who keep animals: · The farmer who lives far from a vet. It explains in simple words and drawings what can be done to prevent, recognize, and treat many common sicknesses. · The teacher in a rural school. The book gives guidelines for teaching other people about animal health and will be useful in the teaching of agricultural science. · The NGO worker or agricultural extension worker who advises farmers on how to look after animals. · The vet assistant or other skilled worker who advises others on how to look after their animals. The book explains which medicines or treatments are most useful for specific sicknesses and warns against any which are useless or dangerous. Published by Oxfam in association with Macmillan and CTA..
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Is There a Doctor in the House?: Market Signals and Tomorrow's Supply of Doctors (Stanford General Books)
"Will there be a doctor—a good doctor—when I need one?"This is the bedrock health care concern for Americans, encompassing as it does additional concerns about affordability, accessibility, efficiency, and specialty expertise. Richard M. Scheffler brings an economist's insight to the question, showing how shifts in market power underlie the changes we have seen in the health workforce and how they will affect the future availability of doctors. Predicting the "right" ratio of doctors to population in the future is only a small piece of the puzzle, and one that has been the subject of much forecasting, and little agreement, over the past several decades. In this concise and readable analysis, Scheffler goes beyond the guessing game to demonstrate that today's health care system is the product of financial influences in both the policy realm and on the ground in the offices of medical centers, HMOs, insurers, and physicians throughout America. He shows how factors such as physician income, medical training costs, and new technologies affect the specialties and geographic distribution of doctors. Scheffler then brings these findings to bear on a set of predictions for the U.S. and international physician workforce that extend five and ten years into the future. As part of his vision of tomorrow's ideal workforce, he offers a template for enhancing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the health care system overall. In the groundbreaking second half of the book, the author, a health policy expert himself, tests his ideas in conversations with leading figures in health policy, medical education, health economics, and physician practice. Their unguarded give-and-take offers a window on the best thinking currently available anywhere. Finally, Scheffler combines their insights with his own to offer observations that will change the way health care's stakeholders should think about the future. .
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Acutonics: There's No Place Like Ohm, Sound Healing, Oriental Medicine, and the Cosmic Mysteries, 2nd edition
This expanded 2nd edition contains 70 additional pages, including 21 new case studies and a newly designed 16-page color section, with new treatment photographs. The new material focuses on sound layering techniques that integrate the use of high, middle, and low frequency tuning forks in the therapeutic environment. History, science, mysticism, and healing are interwoven in this rich and instructive text. Reaching back to ancient views of the Universe and the Sumerian and Taos teachings, it explores the Great Theme and reunites us with a greater understanding of the Music of the Spheres. This practical guide to healing with sound draws the connections between Eastern and Western science, medicine, mysticism, and music, and also provides specific treatment protocols, case studies, and detailed illustrations that demonstrate acupuncture, acupressure, and chakra and trigger points that are used in healing with the Acutonics Tuning Fork System..
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From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
Forty-five people. Forty-five diverse yet personal life stories All of them are connected by a powerful, shared life experience - spinal cord injury. From There To Here: Stories of Adjustment To Spinal Cord Injury is certainly about hope -- but not by way of mere inspiration. These essays are the stuff of whole human lives, and illustrate the real and complex process of how people respond to sudden and overwhelming change. They start from trauma and confusion, their vision of the future challenged to the core, and ultimately arrive at a place that each of them in their own way calls "adjustment." A place that none of them could have imagined when they were There. The heart of these stories is what happened in between - the actual journey to adjustment, acceptance, meaning, and possibility. The journey to Here..
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There's Always Help; There's Always Hope: An Award-Winning Psychiatrist Shows You How to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Although surrounded by options for medical, psychological, and spiritual support, we lack a unified model of healing that can truly guide us in our journey to wellness. Thus we remain lost, suffering and confused. This book offers us hope. In it, Dr. Eve A. Wood presents an integrative approach to healing that combines traditional psychiatric practices and universal spiritual principles. By sharing her patients’ poignant, captivating, and miraculous tales of recovery to demonstrate crucial lessons, Dr. Wood demystifies the therapeutic process. She provides us with the concepts, tools, and resources we need to craft our own unique paths to personal fulfillment, joy, and health. With extraordinary reverence and compassion for the human spirit, Dr. Wood demonstrates that with time, patience, willingness, and hope, we can work through even the most impossible challenges in order to achieve emotional health and inner peace. Believing that each of us has a tale that we’re meant to live and share, Dr. Wood shows us how to find and live our own stories. Whether you suffer from a diagnosable condition, or simply want to better understand yourself, Harnessing Your Healing Potential will help you find your path to a better future. .
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How to Survive Clinical: Advice from the Nursing Students and Teachers Who Have Been There
In this mass-market guide, current and graduated nursing school students share stories on how they dealt with the stressful issues that came up during their schooling and practicum and wisdom about what they wished they had known before they went to nursing school. In addition, nursing school instructors (who are also nurses themselves) talk about what they wish students would know before entering the classroom, and about what advice they have as experienced nurses who have been through the RN process post-clinical..
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Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11
Being There is a collection of photographic portraits of, and interviews with, NYU medical students who volunteered in the New York City Medical Examiner's morgue following 9/11, conducted by Barry Goldstein, and with a foreword by Charles Hirsch M.D., the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, who ran the massive effort to identify remains. Within 24 hours of the attacks, a complex of tents and refrigerated trucks appeared on 30th St. and 1st Ave, adjacent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). This makeshift compound housed the temporary morgues that would receive human remains recovered from Ground Zero. Approximately twenty NYU medical students volunteered to work alongside the understaffed OCME, sorting, cataloguing, and identifying human remains. Most of these students had been in medical school for only a few weeks. In June of 2002, Dr. Goldstein photographed and interviewed the volunteers, asking them to describe what they did, what they would remember, how they coped, and how they were changed by the experience. Barry M. Goldstein is associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and associate professor of medical humanities at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and adjunct professor of humanism in medicine at NYU School of Medicine. He was Artist-in-Residence at the NYU School of Medicine during the 2001-2002 academic year..
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