Towards Healthier Doctors

Parading towards healthier lives, the Mangyan of Mindoro

Global health aid provided by medical students in Singapore to vulnerable populations in Asia includes efforts in preventive medicine, for example, administration of vaccines and installation of water tanks, health education to improve knowledge on diseases afflicting communities, health screening, and affordable treatment for specific conditions. The Manila Medical Mission is a student group, ...

Who empowers women towards healthier lifestyles? Example from western Croatia.

This article explores who among the doctors, other health care workers, family or somebody else most frequently advised women about their lifestyle changes related to cardiovascular health (including smoking, nutritional habits and physical activity). We analyzed who advised the most, in relation to the parameters important in the etiology of cardiovascular diseases: age, systolic blood pressur...

Law, bioethics and biomedicine--towards a healthier interaction.

Time for humanity from doctors towards patients.

I t would not be difficult to support the claim that medical achievements during the 20th century rank as high, if not higher, than those in any other field of human endeavour. Doctors have played a significant part in delivering the findings of science to patients in a variety of health care settings. Yet, the climate today in medicine and health care is not an optimistic one; indeed, it may n...

Selection criteria towards competent and caring doctors.