Letter: Specialities within community medicine.

Specialities and Recently Introduced Remedies

Community medicine.

Background: Road crash injury is largely preventable and predictable; it is a human-made problem amenable to rational analysis and countermeasures. All the studies on Road Traffic accidents either use number of accidents or victims according to availability of accident data. Studies combining these two types of data to identify hazardous locations are a rarity. In this study data on both, the n...

Community genetics and community medicine.

In the decades to come, molecular genetic insights and techniques will have great influence on prevention and health care. Health care providers should anticipate important new developments rather than just wait and see. For community doctors, who can impossibly oversee all relevant developments in sufficient detail, close communication with the community and clinical genetic specialists is nec...

Letter from Moscow: complementary medicine under glasnost.

The inability of the Soviet medical services to cope adequately with the health needs of the general population is widely recognised and discussed at various levels. There are many reasons for this, both traditional and non-traditional, but they are to a large extent based on the concept that your life should be spared for future generations. One ofthe most interesting and obscure phenomena und...

Towards Greater Integration with Other Medical Specialities

One of the major contributions of General Hospital Psychiatry Units (GHPU) has been the increased awareness among both psychiatrists and non-psychiatrist physicians regarding the importance of detecting and treating psychiatric disorders in the physically ill. The prevalence of psychiatric illness in both general medical inpatients and outpatients is significant (Guthrie, 1996). Emotional distu...