Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook

Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook

ISBN-10:
0763778893
ISBN-13:
9780763778897
Pub. Date:
05/07/2010
Publisher:
Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN-10:
0763778893
ISBN-13:
9780763778897
Pub. Date:
05/07/2010
Publisher:
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook

Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook

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Overview

Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook is a convenient portable guide providing regional and issue based information on international medicine. The first section addresses major themes in international health including development, traditional medicine, water safety, respiratory infections, and HIV/AIDS. The second section is comprised of region specific chapters, each including a summary of endemic diseases, historical context, and available resources. Tarascon Global Health Pocketbook is a must have resource for physicians, residents, or medical students traveling to developing countries and those with an interest in international health policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780763778897
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date: 05/07/2010
Edition description: 1E
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 3.30(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Amit Chandra is an emergency physician living in Queens, New York. He studied economics at McGill University in Montreal and the London School of Economics, before attending medical school at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has worked in the fields of health care and economic and community development in rural Virginia, New York, Mumbai, and New Delhi.

Matthew Dacso is a general internist from Houston, Texas. He studied music at McGill University, international development at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, and medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston before completing residency at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has worked in health care in Argentina, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Botswana. He continues his work in community health and development as an HIV outreach specialist for the Botswana-UPenn Part nership in Gaborone, Botswana.

Table of Contents


ChapterI Introduction
ChapterII Waterborne Illness: Diarrhea, Dehydration, and Worms
ChapterIII Malnutrition
ChapterIV Respiratory Diseases
ChapterV Vector-Borne Diseases
ChapterVI Meningitis
ChapterVII Sepsis
ChapterVIII Women's Health, Reproductive Health, and Contraception
ChapterIX HIV/AIDS in the Developing World
ChapterX Toxicology and Environmental Health
ChapterXI Extremes of Temperature
ChapterXII Central America and The Caribbean
ChapterXIII South America
ChapterXIV Eastern Europe
ChapterXV Sub-Saharan Africa
ChapterXVI Middle East and North Africa
ChapterXVII Central Asia
ChapterXVIII South Asia
ChapterXIX Southeast Asia
ChapterXX East Asia
Appendix1 WHO Disease Staging System for Adults and Adolescents
Appendix2 Antiretroviral Agents Used for HIV Infection
Appendix3 Global Health Medical Bag
Appendix4 Evaluation of Malnutrition with Weight for Height Charts
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