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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 April 2003
- ISBN 9780192631688
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 233x156x11 mm
- Weight 391 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line figures 0
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Short description:
This book is about the context within which illness is experienced, health is sought and medicine is practised. There has been a shift in the focus of medical care from the hospital to the community, and the need for medical eduation to follow this trend is recommended by the General Medical Council. Medical students are required to understand the community aspects of medical practice and combine this with elements of sociology and psychology. In response to this need, this book provides a single text for medical students to use throughout their community medical studies.
MoreLong description:
In line with major changes in medical education over the last decade, Health and Illness in the Community stresses the importance of the community and the health of the population which play an integral part in becoming a good doctor. Through the use of case histories, summary panels, bullet lists the book looks at the context within which illness is experienced, health is sought and medicine is practised. It explains to the reader how the determinants of health and illness are much wider than the influence of medicine, or indeed healthcare. It is generally recognised that the effectiveness of clinical decisions made for each patient is increased if the doctor takes account of the patient's family and community setting. Equally the impact of these decisions is mediated through the environmental, economic and political conditions of the day.
This concise multi-disciplinary textbook for medical students takes a practical approach to the subject, integrating the subjects that are being taught within the community. Taking health and normality as a starting point, the book considers the environmental and social factors which influence the health of a community, discussing the nature, distribution and determinants of illness. Students need a solid understanding of medicine in the community encompassing elements of public health, general practice, child health, geriatrics, mental health, psychology and sociology and this book provides the material required.
Easy to read and reasonably priced, all community healthcare professionals would find this book useful.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 - Society, Health and Illness
Introduction: society, health and illness
Description of society
An epidemiological picture of society
How do we know we are healthy?
What do we mean by illness?
Part 2 - Influences on Health
Introduction: influences on health
Social influences on health
Economic and political influences on health
Environmental influences on health
Influence of mental processes on health
Influence of age on health
Part 3: Illness and healthcare in the community
Introduction: illness and healthcare in the community
Health promotion
Organisation of medical care
Chronic illness
Impairment, disability & handicap
Mental illness: vulnerable people in the community
Death and dying
