Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Define the ideal roles of the District Hospital [DH] in a LessDeveloped Country [LDC]
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Schull CR. Common Medical Problems in the Tropics. 2nd ed. Macmillan; 1999.
Eddleston M, et al. Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. Oxford Press, 2008.
Cook GC, Zumla A, eds. Mansons Tropical Diseases. 23rd ed. Saunders;2003
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and evidence-based !
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Some overviews
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IMPAC [WHO}, Safe Motherhood [Marie Stopes UK], and Mola [PNG] books
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WHO. Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management
of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources, 2005 [378pp] Also CD [above]
Full text free at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2005/9241546700.pdf
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Nutrition guide books from MSF and Teaching Aids at Low Cost [TALC]
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Clark D, Korte R,
Wright M. Nutrition
for Papua New
Guinea. Dept of
Public Health,
Konedobu,PNG,1975.
Further focus
on topics in
Nutrition
Until the AIDS epidemic, adult illnesses, especially those which are
chronic, had little emphasis in global health guidelines [although a few
LDCs have long had adult illness protocols, often for acute diseases]
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The Columbia HIV manual, African and Kenyan national HIV/AIDS manuals
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Malaria handbooks:
Warrell&Gilles. Essential Malariology, 4th ed,
2002, ELBS/UK
WHO: Management of
Severe [falciparum]
Malaria: A Practical
Handbook, 2000
Kenya. Min. of Health:
National Guidelines
forMalaria, 2003
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Despite Grants
Anatomy Atlas in
the O.R., some
surgeons still
manage to cut the
palmar arch
note the arterial
blood on the
Atlas page
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Much of the surgery in LDCs is trauma and orthopedics, usually treated by closed
reduction when possible, followed if necessary by skeletal traction [see next slide]
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MENTAL HEALTH
Patel V. When There is No
Psychiatrist. Gaskell (Royal College
of Psychiatrists), 2003.
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Equipping and running a hospital, its operating room, lab, radiology and
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interpreting radiographs.
WHO: Manual of Radiographic
Interpretation for General
Practitioners. WHO; 1985.
[same title in Spanish]
Daley CL, Gotway MB, Jasmer
RM. Radiographic Manifestations
of Tuberculosis. 2nd ed. San
Francisco,CA: Francis J Curry
National Tuberculosis Center;
2006. [free from that source]
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TEAM LEADERSHIP
8TH Skill Area..concludes
the 8 Skill Areas in this
GHEC Module:
Strengthening your
hospitals Community
Health Program is a key
Role in leading the
District Health team.
Morley D.
Paediatric
Priorities in the
Developing
World.
Butterworth;
1973.
Two of the books that started the Global Health movement, clinically
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COMPREHENSIVE CLINICALLY-ORIENTED
COURSES/CURRICULA
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Diploma Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine and
Travelers Health.
http://www.astmh.org/certification/certificate.cfm
University of Arizona. Global Health.
http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu/
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Credits
The author of this Module, Ron Pust, MD, of College of
Medicine, University or Arizona in Tucson, thanks all of the
Summer Course participants, including visiting faculty, for
volunteering a part of their lives to pass on their LDCderived skills.
He gives special thanks to Course Co-Directors, Tracy Carroll,
MPH, Susan M. Berryman, CHES, to Course Administrator
Arleen Heimann, and the Dept. Chairs who have permitted
this course since 1982and to the 500+ co-learners who
have endured it, then gone to the far corners of the planet.
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