Community Psychiatry Care: An Urgent Need in Nigeria

Cultural Competence in Diabetes Mellitus Care: An Urgent Need

Background: Multicultural societies exist worldwide. Two important challenges can be appreciated in this scenario. Minority populations, due to a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors, have a particularly high risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). In addition, the quality of health care provided to minority populations, including that for DM, has lagged behind that provided ...

Female condoms, an urgent need.

The urgent need to improve hypertension care.

Hypertension is the most prevalent health problem among adult primary care patients, but its recognition and treatment are suboptimal. Although there is ample evidence from several large-scale randomized, controlled studies that treatment of hypertension reduces morbidity and mortality, current management of hypertension is characterized by underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, undertreatment, overtrea...

Need for Community Care

Need for community care There has been a great deal of talk about the necessity for "community care" of the mentally ill, and it is unhappily true that, because of pressure of work, professional people involved in looking after the mentally ill are unable to give that personal care and friendship which is so often a patient's real need. The problem is not entirely solved by creating after-care ...

The need for competency-based training in dental urgent care.

VOLUME 46 • NUMBER 6 • JUNE 2015 The primary goal of dental education is to train dental professionals who can competently address a wide range of issues in oral health care and independently practice evidence-based comprehensive dentistry aimed at improving the health of society.1 Competency-based education as a philosophy has widely been adopted by dental schools worldwide for both undergradu...