Having good visual acuity is important for normal physical and cognitive development in a child, contributing to his/her socialization and learning. Some conditions can impair the development of vi...
Epidemic (Greek, literally "in, on the people") - a continuous process of successive homogeneous infectious diseases (epidemic process), expressed in their significant spread in the community, sett...
A brain stroke is the main cause of neurological morbidity and mortality. In a developing country such as Pakistan, the socioeconomic burden of stroke is tremendous due to insufficient funds availa...
This book explains the meaning of the word in the language system from different perspectives, the notions of competence and performance, additionally, it explains the differences between word and ...
This book deals with the possibility of using impedance cardiography for calculation of cardiac output. Kubicek's, Sramek's and Sramek-Bernstein's methods are discussed here. These methods were app...
Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory mucosal disease, presenting various clinical forms. Both antigen- specific and non- specific mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of OLP. Matri...
Oral cancer pathogenesis is a complex process involving genetic alteration during multistep carcinogenesis, growth regulation, apoptosis, immortalization, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis. Mol...
Due to its distribution and clinical course, chronic viral hepatitis C has become one of the most common infectious diseases in the world. At present the number of the infected in the world is abou...
Earlier studies in Kenya have shown that there is a low level of financial literacy. Repercussions of poor personal financial decisions do not only reflect in individuals but also affect the normal...
Foot is a very important structure to achieve postural stability according to its structure and shape, so any mechanical disturbance to the foot will cause postural instability. Both orthoses can e...
Improving the quality of health care and services is a priority for the NHS, and for commissioners, managers, practitioners and service users. However, to improve we must first know what already ex...
U.S. federal research funding triggers regulations to protect human subjects known as the Common Rule, a collaborative government effort that spans seventeen federal agencies. The Department of Hea...
The formal healthcare system in Nigeria is near collapse and the National Health Insurance Scheme has failed to improve coverage. In this situation, a well-organized quality rural medical and surgi...
This book brings a study conducted with two mental health teams, in the context of two Centers of Psychosocial Attention - CAPS, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing on Phenomenology.Psychiatric Ref...
Gastric Adenocarcinoma is a disease with significant clinical impact worldwide. Imaging as been playing a role in diagnosis and with recent developments of medical technology, cross-sectional imagi...
Chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular diseases have a high prevalence in the developed countries and are also rising in emerging countries. A direct result of kidney failure is elevated uremic ...
This book explores how government agencies in Thailand and Australia, two countries with long and rich history and culture that draw millions of tourists around the world preserve and promote their...
Brain tumors are the second commonest tumors after leukemia and the commonest solid tumors in children. Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the commonest cause of cancer related deaths in children and...
By 2007, health centers in primary health care are public entities, autonomous, contracted by HII, financed according to package of services, self managed. Health centre is managed by Manager and e...
The prevalence, degree, and patterns of hearing loss associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) reported by various studies differ significantly. The effects of haemodialysis and duration of dise...