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Social Ethics, The Philosophy of Medicine, and Professional Responsibility

Ozar, D.T. (1985) CC

TheoreticalMedicine 6 (1985), 281-294. 0167-9902/85.10

Applied research concerning inclusion of persons with disabilities in systems of social protection

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Technische Universität München; REPOA GIZ; German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2015) C1

Social Protection Policy Analysis, Tanzania

Medicine Information for Primary Care in Zimbabwe

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zimbabwe (2012) C1

The objective of this book is to provide health workers with easily accessible information on important aspects of the medicines commonly used at primary care level in Zimbabwe. Medicines are a crucial part of the management of most of our patients, yet many medicines are potentially dangerous if no ... more

Namibia: National Guidelines for Medicine Safety Surveillance

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2017) C2

Accessed November, 2017

Namibia: Application for Registration of a Medicine

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2014) C2

Namibia guideline for submission of applications for registration of pharmaceuticals for human use in common technical document format.

Disability and Poverty in Rural Guatemala: Conceptual, Cultural and Social Intersections

Grech, S. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2016) C2

Inclusive Social Protection

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationalie Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2015)

This website provides practical tools and advice for programme planners and policy makers to run inclusive social protection programmes, especially in low and middle income countries. It draws on the findings of a study conducted in 2014 in Peru and ... more

Climate Crisis and Clinical Medicine Virtual Elective for Medical Students - Online Course

EMORY (2022) CC

This 4 week course will cover Climate Change and Emerging Clinical Challenges, Health Equity and Social Justice, Climate Solutions for the Healthcare Sector, and Communicating about Climate Change. Students will learn about recognizing, managing, an ... more

Life skills as a behaviour change strategy in the prevention of HIV and AIDS: Perceptions of students in an open and distance learning institution

B. J. Mohapia; E. M. Pitsoane SAHARA J.: Journal of Social Aspects of HIVAIDS; PMC (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) (2017) C2

Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS VOL. 14 NO. 1 2017 SAHARA J. 2017; 14(1): 77–84. Published online 2017 Sep 21. doi: 10.1080/17290376.2017.1374878 PMCID: PMC5639614 PMID: 28934916

Challenges in management and prevention of ischemic heart disease in low socioeconomic status people in LLMICs

Gupta, R.; Yusuf, S. BMC Medicine (2019) CC

Cardiovascular diseases, principally ischemic heart disease (IHD), are the most important cause of death and disability in the majority of low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs). In these countries, IHD mortality rates are significantly greater in individuals of a low socioeconomic status ( ... more

Webinar on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and the summary of the proceedings

Yamada, H.; Kita, K. Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (2016) CC

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a painful disease that exerts a serious toll on societies around the world that are afflicted by it. Although not life-threatening, the skin ulcers and scars it causes can lead to isolation and psychosocial pathologies due to ... more

Business models for sustainable development: Projects of global extension of medical technologies of Japan

Nozaki, I.; Y. Sugiura; N. Fujita et al. Global Health & Medicine (2021) C1

Japan has been implementing projects of global extension of medical technologies under an official development assistance policy to improve public health and medicine by promoting Japanese medical technologies worldwide. The current work examines th ... more

Comorbidity of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety in flood survivors: Prevalence and shared risk factors

Dai, W., Kaminga, A.C., Tan, H., Wang, J., Lai, Z., Wu, X., Xiong, Y., Deng, J. & Liu, A. Medicine (2017) CC

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety are both prevalent in trauma-related populations. However, comorbidity of these 2 psychiatric disorders has not been investigated in flood survivors. This study aimed to estimate the extent to which PTSD and anxiety co-occur in flood survivors, and i ... more

Appraisal Report, HIV/AIDS Control Support Project Benin

OCSD, Social Development Department, Central and West Regions African Development Fund (2004) C2

The project will support preventive actions, traditional medicine and the coordination and implementation capacities of the national framework for HIV/AIDS control.

Burden of Peripheral Artery Disease and Its Attributable Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories From 1990 to 2019

Lin, J.; Chen, Y.; Jiang, N. et al. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2022) CC

Background: Data on burden of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and its attributable risk factors are valuable for policymaking. We aimed to estimate the burden and risk factors for PAD from 1990 to 2019. Methods: We extracted the data on prevalence, incidence, death, years lived with disability (YLD ... more

Namibian Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plan

Pharmaceutical Services, Directorate Tertiary Health Care and Clinical Support Services Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia (2017) CC2

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is occurring everywhere in the world, compromising the ability to treat infectious diseases, as well as undermining many other advances in health and medicine. Underlying factors that drive AMR include; weak or absent ... more

Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Chagas Disease
recommended

Suárez, C.; Nolder, D.; García-Mingo, A.; (2022) CC

Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine 2022:13 25–40 Chagas disease (CD) or American trypanosomiasis is a neglected parasitic disease associated with significant mortality and morbidity that includes long-term disability, ... more

Indicators of young women’s modern contraceptive use in Burkina Faso and Mali from Demographic and Health Survey data

Regan A., Thompson G. (2017) C2

nContraception and Reproductive Medicine (2017) 2:26 DOI 10.1186/s40834-017-0053-6 Young women in Burkina Faso and Mali are increasingly using modern contraceptives for family planning; however, the LAPM contraceptive prevalence rate remains low. O ... more