Ioannis Praevotii ... Medicina pauperum : mira serie continens remedia ad aegrotos cujuscunque generis persanandos aptissima, facilè parabilia, extemporanea, & nullius, vel perexigui sumptus : huic thesauro adjunguntur jucundissima pro delicatulis medicamento, non omisso ejusdem auctoris libello aureo de venenis.

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Despertador medico, con su botica de pobres : curso tercero de la cathedra de desengaños medicos, sobre la ciencia humana en la philosophia moral /

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Cathedra de desengaños medicos, sobre la ciencia humana en la filosophia moral ... /

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Jamaica /

"December 1976."

Society and health in a mountain community; a working paper

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Surgical Theatre, Gifted Performances: The Changing Moral Economy of Surgical Training

Fred Hollows and his work to reduce blindness in Indigenous communities is an obvious example of benevolence of doctors and nurses towards patients while the role of the staff of burns units around Australia in treating the victims of the Bali bombing is another. Some different stories about benevolence in medicine, concerning the benevolence of patients towards trainee clinical staff are suggested.

Health reforms in Latin America: processes and results

Two types of health reforms in Latin America are analysed: one based on insurance and service commodification and the one referred to the unified public systems of progressive governments. Health insurance with explicit service packages has not fulfilled their purposes of universal coverage, equal access to necessary health services and improvement of health conditions but has opened health as a field of profit making for insurance companies and private health providers. The national health services as a state obligation have developed territorialized health services and widened substantially timely access to the majority of the population. The adoption of an integrated and wide social policy has an impact on population well fare. It faces some problems derived from the old health systems and the power of the insurance and medical complex.

Mobbing, assédio no local de trabalho

São apresentadas as principais causas e mecanismos de assédio no local de trabalho, bem como as respetivas consequências e formas de as controlar.

Doenças crónicas e presentismo no local de trabalho: resultados de dois estudos sobre as relações entre o burnout, mobbing, bem-estar e presentismo

São apresentados os resultados de dois estudos realizados na mesma população. O estudo de caso-controlo aninhado num estudo transversal analisa os determinantes do bem-estar em contexto laboral. O segundo usa uma abordagem de modelos de equações estruturais para analisar as interrelações entre o bullying no trabalho, o burnout, o bem-estar e o presentismo.

Happy App

Aplicação de promoção de estilos de vida saudáveis e prevenção do cancro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ipatimup.happy

“Who wants to go repeatedly to the hospital?” : Perceptions and experiences of simplified medical abortion in Rajasthan, India

The aim of this study is to explore women's experiences and perceptions of home use of misoprostol and of the self-assessment of the outcome of early medical abortion in a low-resource setting in India. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 women seeking early medical abortion, who administered misoprostol at home and assessed their own outcome of abortion using a low-sensitivity pregnancy test. With home use of misoprostol, women were able to avoid inconvenience of travel, child care, and housework, and maintain confidentiality. The use of a low-sensitivity pregnancy test alleviated women's anxieties about retained products. Majority said they would prefer medical abortion involving a single visit in future. This study provides nuanced understanding of how women manage a simplified medical abortion in the context of low literacy and limited communication facilities. Service delivery guidelines should be revised to allow women to have medical abortion with fewer visits.

The limits of medicine and the social consequences for sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) appears to be made up of several clusters of illness categories acting alone or in tandem to cause the decline of health through; fatigue/exhaustion, sensitivity/allergies, pain, general muscle and joint pains, cognitive impairment and gastrointestinal problems. This study investigated how patients interpret, evaluate and respond to the complex and varied symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Data were collected from persons with CFS using a survey (n=90) and an interview (n=45). The researchers investigated how chronic fatigue syndrome is diagnosed by medical practitioners, how the label of CFS is determined and the social consequences for the patient. The results confirm the limited ability of the biomedical paradigm to diagnose adequately and treat effectively 'socially constructed' and medically ambiguous illnesses like CFS. In the absence of a legitimated regime of medical treatment for CFS, a range of often expensive treatments are employed by CFS sufferers, from formal use of pharmaceutical drugs through to 'alternative' therapies, including herbal, vitamin, homeopathic, esoteric meditative techniques, spiritual healing and general counselling are taken in no particular order.