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| Health in South Africa 1 The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges Hoosen Coovadia, Rachel Jewkes, Peter Barron, David Sanders, Diane McInty |
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| In today’s fast changing health care sector, decision makers are facing a growing demand for both clinical and administrative information in order to comply with legal and customer-specific requireme |
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| Nowadays, a global and local discussion on Public Health relevance is taking place, including therefore the future role and organization of its services. Noteworthy becomes the role played by Publi |
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| Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are associated with considerable reduction of quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. The management of patients with vertebral fractures should include treatment |
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| The functional and structural reordering of the accident and emergency services is a priority for hospital management staffs. A true reordering must be based on the following questions 1.Demand for a |
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| The increase in demand and the normal situations of overload of the Hospital Emergency Department (HED) make continuous organisational changes compulsory in the search for optimum working and greater |
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| As in any sector the focus of the health services must be directed towards the patient-client as the centre of the system with organisation revolving around patient-client needs. Hence the former mus |
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| Resistant hypertension is a common and growing clinical problem characterized by failure to achieve target blood pressure levels despite adequate use of at least three antihypertensive agents. Althou |
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| The clinical management of patients with thalassemia has changed in the last 40 years. Increasing knowledge of the underlying pathophysiology of the disease as well as the introduction of modern tran |
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