As recent scholarship has demonstrated, the world of the Mediterranean exerted a tremendous influence not only on the societies and cultures bordering the Mediterranean Sea during the late Middle Ages, but had a huge influence on the mentality and culture of the world north of the Alps as well because it was here where East and West met, exchanged ideas and products, and struggled to find, desp...

An effort is being made in Cambodia to involve grass-roots personnel in the integration of the care of the mentally ill into a broad framework of health services. This undertaking is examined with particular reference to the work of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization.

Today, quality of life assessment is an informative, reliable and economical method studying health, both at the individual group levels, important integral indicator severity dynamics pathological process in different nosologies. The most convenient way to measure use questionnaires, which are divided into general, used for all diseases, specialized, a particular nosological unit. Proper const...