viruses in community-acquired pneumonia in children younger than 5 years of age Susan S. Chiu, Pak-Leung Ho, Malik J. S. Peiris, Kwok Hung Chan, Eunice L. Y. Chan Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Centre of Influenza Research, School of Public Health,...

the concept of quaternary prevention (p4) refers to the idea that medicine has acquired the ability to damage through the proper exercise. family medicine or general practice has the duty of recovering the ethical values and the exercise of a profession with the doctor-patient relationship serving to people’s humanity. in the fourth congress of family and community medicine, held in montevideo ...

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AIM We present the approaches used in and outcomes resulting from integrated community case management (iCCM) programmes in Niger and Mozambique with a strong focus on demand generation and social mobilisation. METHODS We use a case study approach to describe the programme and contextual elements of the Niger and Mozambique programmes. RESULTS Awareness and utilisation of iCCM services and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous reports have defined the time that community preceptors spend teaching students, but much remains to be learned about the process and content of office-based teaching. Our objective was to understand better the teaching process and content by documenting how often preceptors used the microskills described in the Five-step "Microskills" Model of Clinical Teachi...

~ *Unit for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of Health in the Community; tDepartment of Gastroenterology, Division of Medicine; Wepartment of Epidemiology, Division of Health in the Community; and §Department of Family Medicine, Division of Health in the Community, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of the Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Shev...

Over the past three years (2006-2008), the medical/health and public health communities have shown a growing interest in using online 3D virtual worlds like Second Life(R) (http://secondlife.com/) for health education, community outreach, training and simulations purposes. 3D virtual worlds are seen as the precursors of 'Web 3D' , the next major iteration of the Internet that will follow in the...

As we enter more and more into a super-aging society, the requirement for home healthcare will increase. Pharmacists must work along with doctors and nurses in the field of home healthcare. Within the 6-year pharmacy curriculum, we must educate students as medicinal professionals who will join a medical team to serve the community. The Good Practice (GP) program, which has been supported by the...

OBJECTIVE Health disparities exist between rural and urban areas. Rural physicians may lack sufficient medical knowledge, which may lead to poor quality of care. Therefore, we sought to determine whether medical knowledge differed between family physicians (FPs) practicing in rural areas compared with those practicing in metropolitan areas. METHODS We studied 8361 FPs who took the American Bo...