The future of laboratory medicine - A 2014 perspective. [PDF]
, 2015 Predicting the future is a difficult task. Not surprisingly, there are many examples and assumptions that have proved to be wrong. This review surveys the many predictions, beginning in 1887, about the future of laboratory medicine and its sub ...
FORTINA, PAOLO +3 more
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Re-imagining global health through social medicine
Global Public Health, 2019 The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend ‘the social’ in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of ...
Vincanne Adams +4 more
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The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2018 Type 2 diabetes affects racial/ethnic minorities at an alarming rate in the US and in many countries around the world. The quality of health care provided to these groups is often suboptimal, resulting in worse patient-related outcomes when compared to ...
A. Enrique Caballero
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundDespite renewed emphasis on strengthening primary health care globally, the sector remains under-resourced across sub–Saharan Africa. Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been the foundation of Ghana's primary care system for
Helen Elsey +13 more
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Upgrading a Social Media Strategy to Increase Twitter Engagement During the Spring Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. [PDF]
, 2017 Microblogs known as tweets are a rapid, effective method of information dissemination in health care. Although several medical specialties have described their Twitter conference experiences, Twitter-related data in the fields of anesthesiology and ...
Gupta, Rajnish K. +6 more
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Case Studies in Social Medicine - Attending to Structural Forces in Clinical Practice.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 Case Studies in Social Medicine Our new Case Studies in Social Medicine series highlights the importance of social concepts and context to clinical medicine.
Scott D. Stonington +8 more
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Decline and decadence in Iraq and Syria after the age of Avicenna? : ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (1162–1231) between myth and history [PDF]
, 2010 ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī’s (d. 1231) work Book of the Two Pieces of Advice (Kitāb al Nasīḥatayn) challenges the idea that Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century AD.
Joosse, Nanne Pieter George +1 more
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Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945
Global Public Health, 2019 This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International ...
Eric D. Carter
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [PDF]
, 2010 Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology.
Fuller, C. J., Narasimhan, Haripriya
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The measles outbreak in Israel in 2018-19: lessons for COVID-19 pandemic
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 During 2018–2019 Israel saw some 4300 measles cases in a country-wide epidemic. Increased measles incidence rates and considerable disease burden have been observed in under-vaccinated communities, predominantly Jewish ultraorthodox. The measles epidemic,
Chen Stein-Zamir, Hagai Levine
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