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GLOBAL HEALTH:
CLINICAL AND COMMUNITY CARE

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Table of Contents for Syllabus: Chapters 1-10

1.  Health in Developing Nations: An Overview
    1A -- Global Health: What's in this course? Why? Who?
    1B -- Health Care in Developing Nations: An overview
    1C -- "From "Tropical Medicine" to "Health for All" : Our Generation's Challenge

Three Major Health Problems: Population, Nutrition, Infectious Diseases

Population based health care:
2.  Epidemiology for Health Care and Management
    2A -- Organizing Health Services in Developing Nations
    2B -- Demography, Health and Development: Is Population a Problem - or a Resource?
    2C -- The Clnician's Role in Managing Primary Health Care - and Hospitals
    2D -- Community Diagnosis  : How Health are the Hewa? The Tewa? The Kenyans?
    2E -- Emergence, Eradication & Evil: The Unnatural Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
    2F -- Culture & Pathogenesis: The Epidemiology of Pigs, Potatoes, Proteases and Power
    2G -- Ebola: What Lessons from "The Plague Fighters"
    2H - 1 -- Epidemiologic transition: Emerging Chronic Diseases
    2H - 2 -- Epidemiologic transition: The Global Tobacco Epidemic

3.  Clinical Maternal Health : Safe Motherhood
    3A --  Prenatal and Neonatal Care: Risk Triage, Transport and Treatment
    3B -1 -- Management of Difficult Labor: Protocols and Options
    3B -2 -- Symphysiotomy for Second State Emergencies: Why? Who? How?
    3C -- Family Planning and Population Programs / Case studies

Nutrition
4.  Measurement and Management of Nutritional Problems
    4A -- Nutrition Problems and Programs in Developing Nations
    4B -- Severe Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM): Inpatient Management
    4C -- MCH Malnutrition Assessment by Anthropometry
    4D -- Breast-feeding: Nutrition /HIV-Interactions and Decisions
   

Infectious Diseases:
5.  Child Survival Programs Combating Major Causes of Child Death
    5A -- Infectious Disease "Selective Primary Care" Priorities
    5A -1 -- The IMCI Protocol for Sick or Starving Children
    5B -- Diarrheal Diseases and Rehydration Therapy in Children
    5B -1 -- Cholera, Typhoid and Dysentery: Child & Adult
    5C -- The  Diseases of  Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI)
    5D -- Pneumonia (ARI) and Meningitis:  Diagnosis and Case
             Management              
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6. "Tropical" Infectious Diseases:
    6A -- Soil and Water-borne Parasites: Ascaris, Hookworm, Schistosomiasis
    6B -- Appropriate Technology for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
    6C -- AIDS and STDs in the Developing World
    6C-1 -- AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: One Family Doctor's Perspective from Kenya
    6D -- Malaria, Dengue and other insect-borne diseases
    Mycobacterial Medicine in USA and LDCs
        6E -1 -- Tuberculosis: The World's Most Lethal Bacterium
        6E -2 -- Leprosy in the USA and Abroad
    6H -- Parasitology Lab: Blood and GI Parasites; Basic Chest Radiology

Roles in Health Care in Developing Nations
7.  Teaching Roles /Women's Role in Community Health
    7A -- Health Professionals as Teachers/Trainers: "Helping Health Workers
             Learn"
    7B -- Best Practices: Examples of Community Development
    7C -- Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC)
    7D -- Microcredit as Public Health

8.  Clinical and Research Roles
    8A -- The District Hospital : Case Studies in Clinical and Community Care
    8B -- Hospital Dx and Rx with Lab, Radiology, and WHO's "Essential Drugs"
    8C -- Surgery and Anesthesia: A District Hospital Role for all Clinicians
    8D -- Where There Is No Dentist: Basic Dental Procedures
    8E -- Disability and Development: Chronic Disease and Rehabilitation
    Research Roles in International Health: From Bench to Village
      8F-1 -- Bench to Bedside: Research in Malaria and other parasites
      8F-2 -- Bedside to Village: Appropriate Technology "Poster Session"

9. Cross-Cultural Roles: Controversies and Advocacy
    9A -- Cross-Cultural Competency in North America and Abroad
    9B -- Traditional Indigenous Medicine in the Southwest and Abroad
    9C -- WHO Programs for Extending Mental Health Care
    9D-1 -- Globalization: Money, Power and Health
    9D-2 -- Inequities in the Global Work Place
    9E -- Ethical Controversies in International Health
    9F -- Bringing International Health Back Home: Learning from "LDCs"
   
10.  Region-Specific Preparation
    10A -- Refugee Health Care in Refugee Camps and in North America
    10B -- Tropical Travel: Regional Risks and Recommendations
    10C -- Recording your Region: Photography in the Field
    10D -- Career and Continuing Education Opportunities  in International Health
  

 

 

 
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