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This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health,
environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been
prepared by an international group of experts from both developing
and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both
environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact
assessment.
The second edition of this popular textbook provides an
introduction to the principles and methods of epidemiology. Since
publication of the first edition in 1993, Basic epidemiology has
become a standard reference for education, training and research in
the field of public health and has been translated into more than
25 languages. It is used widely, for training public health and
environment professionals, undergraduate medical students, and
students in other health professions. The second edition provides
updated examples of how and why the basics of epidemiology are
essential to anyone who is required to understand and apply the
principles of disease causation and prevention. The book has a
particular emphasis on modifiable environmental factors and
encourages the application of epidemiology to the prevention of
disease and the promotion of health, including environmental and
occupational health. It prepares members of the health-related
professions to respond to the need for health services to address
all aspects of the health of populations, and to ensure that health
resources are used to the best possible effect. It shows how good
clinical practice is informed by clinical epidemiology; and its
lively, concise style is designed to stimulate a continuing
interest in the subject. This edition includes comprehensive
chapters on the nature and uses of epidemiology; the
epidemiological approach to defining and measuring the occurrence
of health-related states in populations; the strengths and
limitations of epidemiological study designs, causation, the
contribution of epidemiology to the prevention of disease, the
promotion of health and the development of health policy, and the
role of epidemiology in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency
of health care. It enables students to describe the common causes
of death, disease and disability in her or his community; outline
appropriate study designs to answer specific questions concerning
disease causation, natural history, prognosis, prevention, and the
evaluation of therapy and other interventions to control disease,
and critically evaluate the literature.
This book describes a unique study on the usefulness of
benzodiazepine tranquilizers given in conjunction with and compared
to therapeutic counselling for the treatment of minor psychiatric
disorders. International collaboration under the sponsorship of the
WHO made this first cross-cultural comparative study possible.
Important methodological findings about measurement instruments, as
well as data about the effects of different treatments, resulted
from the study. It also demonstrated the possibility of using
quantitative scientific methods to measure milder forms of
psychiatric disorders and their changes.
Provides clinical descriptions, diagnostic guidelines, and codes
for all mental and behavioural disorders commonly encountered in
clinical psychiatry. The book was developed from chapter V of the
Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of
Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). The clinical
descriptions and diagnostic guidelines were finalized after field
testing by over 700 clinicians and researchers in 110 institutes in
40 countries, making this book the product of the largest ever
research effort designed to improve psychiatric diagnosis. Every
effort has been made to define categories whose existence is
scientifically justifiable as well as clinically useful. The
classification divides disorders into ten groups according to major
common themes or descriptive likeness, a new feature which makes
for increased convenience of use. For each disorder, the book
provides a full description of the main clinical features and all
other important but less specific associated features. Diagnostic
guidelines indicate the number, balance, and duration of symptoms
usually required before a confident diagnosis can be made.Inclusion
and exclusion criteria are also provided, together with conditions
to be considered in differential diagnosis. The guidelines are
worded so that a degree of flexibility is retained for diagnostic
decisions in clinical work, particularly in the situation where
provisional diagnosis may have to be made before the clinical
picture is entirely clear or information is complete. "...As
befitting a publication of considerable influence, the amount of
work that went into preparing ICD-10 has been formidable..." - The
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
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Compendium of food additive specifications (Paperback)
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization; Contributions by John C Larsen
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These specifications provide information on the identity and purity
of food additives used directly in foods or in food production. The
main objectives are to identify the food additives that have been
subjected to testing for safety, to ensure that the additives are
of the quality required for use in food or in processing, and to
reflect and encourage good manufacturing practice. This publication
and other documents produced by JECFA are is useful to all those
who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe
use in food.
Worldwide, the application of information and communication
technologies to support national health-care services is rapidly
expanding and increasingly important. This is especially so at a
time when all health systems face stringent economic challenges and
greater demands to provide more and better care, especially to
those most in need.The "National eHealth Strategy Toolkit" is an
expert, practical guide that provides governments, their ministries
and stakeholders with a solid foundation and method for the
development and implementation of a national eHealth vision, action
plan and monitoring framework. All countries, whatever their level
of development, can adapt the "Toolkit" to suit their own
circumstances.Representing one of the most significant
collaborations in recent years between the World Health
Organization and the International Telecommunication Union, the
"Toolkit" is a landmark in understanding what eHealth is, what it
can do, and why and how it should be applied to health care today.
Since its first publication in 2002, the "WHO Model Formulary" has
become an indispensable source of independent information on
essential medicines for pharmaceutical policy-makers and
prescribers worldwide. The "Model Formulary" is the authoritative
guide on how to make effective use of the medicines on the WHO
Model List of Essential Medicines, so improving patient safety, and
limiting unnecessary medical spending. For each medicine the "Model
Formulary" provides information on use, dosage, adverse effects,
contraindications and warnings, supplemented by guidance on
selecting the right medicine for a range of conditions.The new
edition, "WHO Model Formulary 2008," details changes made to the
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines in 2007, with updated
therapeutic information on existing medicines reflecting new
clinical knowledge.
The objectives of this Code are to establish voluntary standards of
conduct for all public and private entities engaged in or
associated with the management of pesticides, particularly where
there is inadequate or no national legislation to regulate
pesticides.
The longstanding debate over the optimal duration of exclusive
breastfeeding has centered on the so-called "weanling's dilemma" in
developing countries: the choice between the known protective
effect of exclusive breastfeeding against infectious morbidity and
the (theoretical) insufficiency of breast milk alone to satisfy the
infant's energy and micronutrient requirements beyond 4 months of
age. The primary objective of this review is to assess the effects
on child health, growth, and development, and on maternal health,
of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months vs exclusive breastfeeding
for 3-4 months with mixed breastfeeding (introduction of
complementary liquid or solid foods with continued breastfeeding)
thereafter through 6 months.
The monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on 11
pesticides that could leave residues in food commodities. These
pesticides are aminopyralid, atrazine, azinphos methyl,
lamba-cyhalothrin, difenoconazole, dimethomorph, flusilazole,
procymidone, profenofos, pyrimethanil and zoxamide. The data
summarized in the toxicological monographs served as the basis for
the acceptable daily intakes and acute reference doses that were
established by the Meeting.This volume and previous volumes of JMPR
toxicological evaluations, many of which were published in the "FAO
Plant Production and Protection Paper" series, contain information
that is useful to companies that produce pesticides, government
regulatory officers, industrial testing laboratories, toxicological
laboratories and universities.
A systematic authoritative classification of the many procedures
used in different branches of medicine. Chapters cover procedures
for medical diagnosis laboratory procedures preventive procedures
surgical operations other therapeutic procedures and ancillary
procedures. The volume, which follows the structure and system of
coding used in the International Classification of Diseases,
includes a tabular list of procedures followed by a detailed
alphabetical index.
Lipid-based ready-to-use foods (RUFs) for the nutritional
management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute
malnutrition (SAM) are provided to children from 6 months to 59
months of age within the context of emergency feeding programmes
supervised by governments. Based on the review, the expert
committee considered that children with SAM have an increase in
susceptibility to bacteraemia and sepsis that is probably between
twofold and fivefold compared with children who are not
malnourished and are of the same age and live in the same
communities. On the basis of its common occurrence as a cause of
infections and serious illnesses in children with SAM, and its
documented ability to contaminate, survive in, and cause outbreaks
of illness associated with low-moisture foods similar to RUFs, the
expert committee concluded that Salmonella is the pathogen of most
concern in lipid-based RUFs. Many outbreaks of foodborne
salmonellosis have been determined to be associated with
low-moisture foods that were contaminated at low levels. Therefore,
the expert committee carefully considered the qualitative
microbiological analyses of RUFs and the contamination levels that
could be inferred, and entered into an extended deliberation of
dose-response modelling to find a path toward a reasonable
approximation of the likely morbidity and mortality in SAM children
that could be anticipated from consumption of RUFs contaminated at
the estimated levels and observed frequency. The expert committee
described three approaches that purchasers of RUFs might use to
establish microbiological criteria to assure the safety of RUFs and
to communicate to manufacturers their safety expectations. These
approaches are: (i) reference to existing standards established for
similar low-moisture foods; (ii) determining an acceptable increase
in risk over the pre-existing baseline of illness from other
sources of exposure; and (iii) process verification sampling using
the moving window technique. The microbiological criteria derived
by each of these approaches accomplish different purposes, and
which is most appropriate is determined by the conditions of
manufacture and use
Diese definitive Anleitung wurde von Grund auf uberarbeitet und auf
den neuesten Stand gebracht fur alle Laboratorien, die sich mit der
Analyse des menschlichen Ejakulates beschaftigen. Das Handbuch
liefert fundamentale Labortechniken fur die Diagnose der mannlichen
Infertilitat. Der Text beschreibt die Zusammenstellung eines
konventionellen Samenprofils anhand von standardisierten
Protokollen fur verschiedene fakultative diagnostische Verfahren.
Solche Techniken sind unentbehrlich fur die Evaluierung infertiler
Paare sowie der Fertilitat von Mannern, deren Spermienproduktion
durch potentielle mannliche Kontrazeptiva oder toxische Substanzen
unterdruckt wird. Auch fur die Gerichtsmedizin und kunstliche
Insemination sind sie von Interesse. Vorangehende Auflagen dieses
Manuals haben sich auf dem Gebiet der Erforschung und Behandlung
der mannlichen Fertilitat etabliert; diese Neuauflage fuhrt diese
Tradition fort und wird als Standard fur zukunftige strengere
Massstabe dienen."
This document contains monographs on residue evaluations of certain
veterinary drugs, prepared at the seventy-fifth meeting of the
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was
held in Rome, Italy from 8 to 17 November 2011. Four substances
were evaluated for the first time for the animal species concerned
-- amoxicillin, apramycin, derquantel and monepantel. Three
subtances were reassessed, monensin, narasin and triclabendzole.
This publication and other documents produced by JECFA contain
information that is useful to those who work with or are involved
with recommending or controlling maximum residue limits for
veterinary drugs in foods of animal origins.
Sets out internationally agreed diagnostic criteria specifically
designed for use when conducting research on mental and behavioral
disorders. Deliberately restrictive, the criteria are intended to
facilitate the selection of groups of individuals whose symptoms
and other characteristics resemble each other in clearly stated
ways, and thus to maximize the homogeneity of study groups and the
comparability of findings in multi-centre and international
studies. The book, which covers over 300 disorders, is derived from
chapter V(F) of the Tenth Revision of the International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).
The research criteria were developed in collaboration with the
world's leading experts and finalized after testing by researchers
and clinicians in 32 countries, representing all the major
traditions and schools of psychiatry. Descriptions of clinical
concepts upon which the research criteria are based are contained
in the companion volume "Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic
Guidelines." For each disorder, criteria are labeled with letters
or numbers to indicate their place in a hierarchy of generality and
importance. This hierarchy includes general criteria, which must be
fulfilled by all members of a group of disorders, obligatory
criteria for individual disorders, and further groups and
sub-groups of characteristics, of which only some are required for
the diagnosis. Where appropriate, the most commonly used exclusion
clause is also listed. A number of disorders of uncertain or
provisional status are described in two annexes. The first covers
affective disorders that have been the subject of recent research,
together with certain personality disorders. The second describes
several disorders that seem to appear almost exclusively in
particular cultures.
This annual edition presents the most recent statistics of over 50
health indicators for WHO's 193 Member States. It includes an
expanded set of core statistics and a section with 10 highlights in
global health statistics for the past year. This book has been
collated from publications and databases of WHO's technical
programmes and regional offices. The core set of indicators was
selected on the basis of relevance for global health, availability
and quality of data, and accuracy and comparability of estimates.
The statistics for the indicators are based on an interactive
process of data collection, compilation, quality assessment, and
estimation between WHO technical programmes and its Member States.
In this process, WHO strives to maximize accessibility, accuracy,
comparability, and transparency of country health statistics. In
addition to national statistics, this publication presents
statistics on the distribution of selected health outcomes and
interventions within countries, disaggregated by gender, age,
urban/rural setting, wealth/assets, and educational level. Such
statistics are primarily derived from the analysis of household
surveys and are only available for a limited number of countries.
Adherence to therapies is a primary determinant of treatment
success. Poor adherence attenuates optimum clinical benefits and
therefore reduces the overall effectiveness of health systems.
Medicines will not work if you do not take them. Medicines will not
be effective if patients do not follow prescribed treatment - yet
in developed countries only 50% of patients who suffer from chronic
diseases adhere to treatment recommendations. In developing
countries, when taken together with poor access to health care,
lack of appropriate diagnosis, and limited access to medicines,
poor adherence is threatening to render futile any effort to tackle
chronic conditions such as diabetes, depression and HIV/AIDS. This
report is based on an exhaustive review of the published literature
on the definitions, measurements, epidemiology, economics, and
interventions applied to nine chronic conditions and their risk
factors. These are: asthma, cancer (palliative care), depression,
diabetes, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, hypertension, tobacco smoking, and
tuberculosis. Intended for clinical practitioners, health managers
and policy-makers, this report provides a concise summary of the
consequences of poor adherence for health and economics. It also
discusses the options available for improving adherence, and
demonstrates the potential impact on desired health outcomes and
health care budgets. It is hoped that this report will lead to new
thinking on policy development, and action on adherence to
long-term therapies.
Reference to Medical Technology and Radiation Medicine, including
radiatiion dosage, protection, quality control and adverse effect
levels; a manual of radiography standards.
This volume distills what is known about environmental health
during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on
experience with sustainable development between the two Earth
Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. It is intended for
practitioners, as well as for policy-makers and researchers, and
thus covers both general and technical aspects of environmental
health. In Part I of this volume, a conceptual framework is
presented for understanding environmental health issues in the
context of disaster management. The framework covers the entire
disaster-management cycle, from preparedness and warning, to
recovery and prevention. Guidelines are also suggested for planning
and reducing the effects of extreme events on public health, and
practical guidance is given in organizational and logistical
matters. Throughout, the need for flexibility and innovation at the
local level is emphasized, combined with solid advance planning.
There is also a focus on the vulnerability of populations during an
emergency or disaster, with the implication that such people have
capacities and local knowledge that should be integrated into
efforts to secure both environment and development against extreme
events. The creative potential of balancing "top-down" and
"bottom-up" approaches is emphasized in chapters on health
promotion and community participation, and on human resources. Part
II of this book is a detailed compendium of best practices and
strategies for risk reduction and response in the fields of: *
Shelter and emergency settlements; * Water supply; * Sanitation; *
Food safety; * Vector and pest control; * Control of communicable
diseases and prevention of epidemics; * Chemical incidents; *
Radiation emergencies; * Mortuary service and handling of the dead;
* Health promotion and community participation; and * Human
resources. This book will be useful in planning for, responding to,
and recovering from the movements of displaced persons and refugees
in humanitarian crises, as well as the floods, storms, earthquakes
and other extreme events that could confront health workers in the
first decade of the 21st century. Given trends in the 1990s, it is
unlikely that humanity has seen the last of these challenges.
Some 20-million low-birth-weight babies are born each year because
of either preterm birth or impaired prenatal growth mostly in less
developed countries. For many small preterm infants receiving
prolonged medical care is important. However kangaroo mother care
is an effective way to meet baby's needs for warmth breastfeeding
protection from infection stimulation safety and love. Kangaroo
mother care is care of preterm infants carried skin-to-skin with
the mother. It is a powerful easy-to-use method to promote the
health and well being of infants. This document describes the
kangaroo mother care method for care of stable
preterm/low-birth-weight infants who need thermal protection
adequate feeding frequent observation and protection from
infection. It provides guidance on how to organize services at the
referral hospital and on what is needed to introduce and carry out
kangaroo mother care focusing on settings where resources are
limited. Evidence for the recommendations are provided whenever
possible. This book has been prepared for health professionals in
charge of low-birth-weight and preterm newborn infants in first
referral hospitals in settings with scarce resources. It is also
aimed at decision-makers and planners at national and local levels.
Given the impact that good nutrition and keeping fit have on health
and well-being in later life, WHO, in collaboration with the Tufts
University USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, organized
a consultation to review the scientific evidence linking diet and
other factors - especially exercise - affecting nutritional status,
disease prevention and health promotion for older persons. The
consultation focused primarily on practical issues, including the
establishment of explicit recommendations to improve the health and
nutritional status of older persons in a wide variety of
socioeconomic and cultural settings. During the production of a
comprehensive report, representing the outcome both of the
preparatory work and of the consultation itself, it was recognized
that new information emerging in several key areas should also be
included. The combined results presented here are intended as an
authoritative source of information for nutritionists, general
practitioners, gerontologists, medical faculties, nurses, care
providers, schools of public health and social workers.The specific
recommendations concerning nutrient intakes, food-based dietary
guidelines, and exercise and physical activity should also interest
a larger audience, including the general reader. The main body
discusses the epidemiological and social aspects of ageing, health
and functional changes experienced with ageing, the impact of
physical activity, assessment of the nutritional status of older
persons, and nutritional guidelines for healthy ageing. Additional
material covers food-based dietary guidelines for older adults -
with particular emphasis on healthy ageing and prevention of
chronic noncommunicable diseases - and guidelines for promoting
physical activity among older persons. "...This report is
significant, representing an authoritative consensus related to the
epidemiological and social aspects of ageing, health and functional
changes experienced with age, and the impact of physical activity.
This valuable source of information is relevant to a wide range of
health professionals; the clear and specific recommendations
concerning food/nutrient consumption and physical activity for
older adults should also interest a larger audience."- The Journal
of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health "...The book is a
timely publication, which provides an exhaustive review of
studies...This publication will certainly serve as a reference
manual for all those involved in nutrition, gerontology and
geriatrics. " - Indian Journal of Medical Research
WHO in collaboration with the International Commission for
Radiologic Education (ICRE) of the International Society of
Radiology (ISR) and the other members of the Global Steering Group
for Education and Training in Diagnostic Imaging is creating a
series of "Manuals of Diagnostic Imaging." The full series of
manuals will primarily cover the examination techniques and
interpretation of conventional diagnostic X-ray procedures. These
manuals will replace and update the WHO Manual of Radiographic
Interpretation for General Practitioners and the WHO Manual of
Radiographic Technique.The present volume in this series, the
manual Radiographic Anatomy and Interpretation of the
Musculoskeletal System, provides an exhaustive description of
radiographic normal anatomy as well as pathologic changes most
frequently seen in musculoskeletal system including trauma,
infections in bone and joints, metabolic, endocrine, and toxic
disorders, tumours, congenital and developmental disorders. Backed
by high-quality reproduction of radiographs, this manual will prove
essential reading to general practitioners, medical specialists,
radiographers and radiologists in any medical settings, although
focusing specifically on needs in small and mid-size hospitals.
Various types of traditional medicine and other medical practices
referred to as complementary or alternative medicine are
increasingly used in both developing and developed countries. In
order to promote safe and appropriate use of these medicines and
practices, as well as to ensure the quality of service and
practitioners, national regulations are vital. Establishing
national policies on traditional medicine, and/or
complementary/alternative medicine and their medical practices,
should therefore include creation of legal frameworks. This review
summarizes the legal status of several major practices in
traditional medicine and complementary/alternative medicine in 123
countries. It includes data on: the use of traditional and
complementary/alternative medicine; the regulatory situation of
traditional and complementary/alternative remedies and
practitioners; health insurance coverage of traditional and
complementary/alternative medicine; education and training of
practitioners of traditional and complementary/alternative
medicine. Information provided in this review will be useful not
only to policy makers, but also to researchers, universities, the
public, insurance companies and pharmaceutical industries.
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