Chapter 5. Elderly People's Health - 65 and After

Chapter 5 - HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS AND TOXICOLOGY

All mercurial compounds are toxic and they affect many organ systems both during pre-natal and post-natal development and in adulthood. Mercury compounds are neurotoxic. Some are immunologically active. The main toxicity stems from the binding of mercury to sulfhydryl groups of enzymes and other proteins, thereby disrupting their structure and function. This interferes with basic cellular proce...

The Health of Indigenous Peoples

The Health of Indigenous Peoples

Health of Refugees and Internally Displaced Peoples

This paper extends the work done in previous reviews by discussing the most recent empirical studies of pathology and services among refugees and by describing unique populations of child and adolescent refugees. Melzak, Shelia (ed.). 1999. Children in Exile: Therapeutic Work in the Community and the Clinic with Child Survivors of Political Violence and War. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publi...

Oral findings and health status among elderly Iraqi patients, (aged 65 and above)

Background: The study hypothesis was that elderly patients with many concomitant diseases and drugs would have different oral diseases, thus epidemiological information about their oral health is urgently needed in geriatric dental care for diagnosis treatment and prevention. The aim was to obtain base line information on the prevalence of oral problems and disease in elderly Iraqi patients. Ma...