Easy to use and fully updated, this bestselling guide provides essential information on the prevention and management of infectious diseases in child care and schools. It features new infectious disease Quick Reference Sheets on Clostridium difficile ("C diff"); Norovirus; MRSA, and MSSA.
The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.
Excerpt from Treatment of the Diseases of Children The Glandular System Diseases of the Lymphatic Glands, 415 - Acute Cervical Adenitis, 415 Persistent Simple Adenitis, 418 - Glandular Fever, 419 - Tuberculous Adenitis, 420 - Mastitis in Young Girls, 422 - The Thymus Gland, 423 Status Lymphaticus, 424 - Dyspituitarism. Dystrophy Adiposogenitalis (frohlich), 428. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Excerpt from Diseases of Children: A Practical Treatise on Diagnosis and Treatment for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine In this volume the author has attempted to present to practitioners and students of medicine a practical clinical treatise on diseases of infants and children. He has but briefly outlined the pathological findings and has avoided unnecessary etiological discussions in order that he might, in a compact volume, find more space in which to clearly outline the differential diagnosis and give in full the treatment of these diseases. The diseases of infancy and childhood differ very widely in their clinical manifestations and in the methods of their successful treatment from corresponding diseases in the aduThe author acknowledges his indebtedness to Gen. Wm. M. Wherry, Dr. M. A. Brown, Dr. Alfred Friedlander, Dr. David I. Wolfstein, Dr. Max Dreyfoos, Dr. Frank II. Lamb, Dr. M. L. Heidingsfeld, and Dr. Samuel Iglauer for revision of manuscript, and to Dr. W. J. Graf for photographic work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.