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Author | : Mignonne Breier |
Publisher | : HSRC Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Medical education |
ISBN | : 9780796921536 |
"Many of the goals of South Africa’s new democracy depend on the production of professionals who have not only the knowledge and skills to make our country globally competitive, but also a commitment to working and living here. Despite numerous reforms, the South African health system, ten years into democracy, remains divided: first world private care that ranks with middle income countries internationally at the one end, and at the other extreme, in the rural public sector in particular, conditions that are superior only to the poorest of African countries. Much work has been done to change medical school curricula in line with the primary health-care focus of government policy, and international trends towards problem-based learning. The student profile in medical schools is now not only more representative of the demographics of South Africa, but also reveals a significant increase in female students. Whether these students will stay in the country after graduating, and serve where they are needed most, remains to be seen."--Publisher's website.
Author | : Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH |
Publisher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1512603007 |
Burnout affects a third of our population and over half of our health professionals. For the second group, the impact is magnified, as consequences play out not only on a personal level, but also on a societal level and lead to medical errors, suboptimal care, low levels of patient satisfaction, and poor clinical outcomes. Achieving wellbeing requires strategies for change. In this book, Dr. Pipas shares twelve lessons and strategies for improved health that she has learned from patients, students, and colleagues over her twenty years working as a family physician. Each lesson is based on observation and research, and begins with a story of an exemplary patient whose challenges and successes reflect the theme of the lesson. Along with the lessons, the author offers plans for action, which taken together create the framework for a healthy life. Each lesson concludes with resources and a "health challenge."
Author | : Paul Starr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780465079353 |
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review
Author | : Paul Hainsworth |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Ethnic groups |
ISBN | : 9780745311951 |
The ongoing troubles in Northern Ìreland have largely overshadowed the presence of over 40 ethnic and religious minority groups in the Province. This study of these groups focuses on the issues of racism, anti-racism, sectarianism, representation in the media, and the law.
Author | : Kathryn Montgomery |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0195187121 |
"Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies heavily on clinical reasoning." "In How Doctors Think, Kathryn Montgomery contends that assuming medicine is strictly a science can have adverse effects. She suggests these can be significantly reduced by recognizing the vital role of clinical judgment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Abigail A. Dumes |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478007397 |
While many doctors claim that Lyme disease—a tick-borne bacterial infection—is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard antibiotic treatment in the form of chronic Lyme disease. In Divided Bodies, Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy that sheds light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States. Drawing on fieldwork among Lyme patients, doctors, and scientists, Dumes formulates the notion of divided bodies: she argues that contested illnesses are disorders characterized by the division of bodies of thought in which the patient's experience is often in conflict with how it is perceived. Dumes also shows how evidence-based medicine has paradoxically amplified differences in practice and opinion by providing a platform of legitimacy on which interested parties—patients, doctors, scientists, politicians—can make claims to medical truth.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309452961 |
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author | : Daniel E. Dawes |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1421437899 |
A thought-provoking and evocative account that considers both the policies we think of as "health policyand those that we don't, The Political Determinants of Health provides a novel, multidisciplinary framework for addressing the systemic barriers preventing the United States from becoming the healthiest nation in the world.
Author | : Iona Heath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Medical policy |
ISBN | : 9781860164545 |
Author | : Abraham Flexner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Medical colleges |
ISBN | : |
A landmark work which precipitated major reforms in medical education. It recommended closing commercial schools and reducing the overall number of medical schools from 155 to 31, with the aim of raising standards. Includes frank evaluative sketches of each school based on site visits by the author.