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1. Health in Developing Nations: An Overview
1A -- International Health: What's in this course? Why?
Who?
1B -- Health Care in Developing Nations: An
overview
1C -- "Health for All by 2000" -- or when? |
Three Major Health Problems: Population, Nutrition, Infectious Diseases
Population:
2. Epidemiology for Health Care and Management
2A -- Delivering Public Health in Developing Nations
2B -- Demography, Health and Development: Is Population a Problem - or
a Resource?
2C -- The Physician's Role in Managing Primary Health Care
- and Hospitals
2D -- Community Diagnosis and COPC : How Health are the Hewa?
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?
How?
3C -- Family Planning and Population Programs / Case studies |
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Nutrition
4. Measurement and Management of Nutritional Problems
4A -- Nutrition Problems and Programs in Developing
Nations
4B -- Severe Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM): Clinical Inpatient
Management
4C -- MCH Malnutrition Assessment by Anthropometry
4D -- Breast-feeding: Nutrition /HIV-Infection: Dynamics and Decisions
Infectious Diseases:
5. Child Survival Programs Combatting 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 -- W.A.S.H (Water and Sanitation for Health): Environmental Health
6C -- AIDS and STDs in the Developing World
6D -- Malaria, Dengue and other insect-borne diseases
Mycobacterial Medicine in USA and LDCs
6E -1 -- Tuberculosis
6E -2 -- Leprosy
6H -- Parasitology Lab: Blood and GI ; Chest Radiology
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Roles in Health Care in Developing Nations
7. Teaching Roles of Health Workers/Women's Role in
Community Health
7A -- Health Professionals as Teachers/Trainers: "Helping Health Workers
Learn"
7B -- Community-Based Programs: Principles of Community
Development
7C -- Implementing a Community-Based Health Program
7D -- The Vital Roles of Women in Less Developed Countries |
8. Clinician's Roles in District Hospitals
8A -- The "District" Hospital (DH): Your HQ for Clinical
and Community Care
8B -- Hospital Dx and Rx with Lab, Radiology, and Who's "Essential
Drugs"
8C -- Surgery and Anesthesia: A Hospital Role for All
Clinicians
8D -- Where There Is No
Dentist: Basic Dental Procedures
8E -- Disability and Development: Chronic Disease and
Rehabilitation
9. Cross-Cultural Roles and Controversies
9A -- Cross-Cultural Competency in the US and Abroad
9B -- Traditional Indigenous Medicine in the Southwest and Abroad
9C -- WHO Programs for Extending Mental Health
Care
9D -- Globalization: Money, Power and Health
9E -- Ethical Controversies in International Health
9F -- Bringing International Health Back Home: Learning
from "LDCs"
10. Region-Specific Preparation
10A -- Refugee Health Care in USA and in Refugee Camps
10B -- Tropical Travel: Regional Risks and Recommendations
10C -- Recording your Region: Photography in the Field
10D -- Career Opportunities and Continuing Education for International
Health
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