Editorial: Grief Disorders: Clinical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Aspects

Cultural Aspects of Depressive Experience and Disorders

Within the last decade, depressive experience and disorder has emerged as one of the world's major health and social problems (e. and racism and sexism) factors associated with the etiology, exacerbation, and maintenance of depressive experience and disorder. As a result of the increased worldwide risk and burden of depressive experience and disorders (Murray & Lopez, 1996), it is essential res...

Cultural aspects of anxiety disorders in India

Cultural factors have influenced the presentation, diagnoses, and treatment of anxiety disorders in India for several centuries. This review covers the antecedents, prevalence, phenomenology, and treatment modalities of anxiety disorders in the Indian cultural context. It covers the history of the depiction of anxiety in India and the concept of culture in the classification of anxiety disorder...

Clinical, epidemiological and socio-cultural aspects of infertility in resource-poor settings. Evidence from Rwanda

Infertility is a serious but entirely neglected public health problem in resource-poor countries. Most of the infertility is caused by infections and therefore potentially preventable. The problem of infertility in Rwanda has not been -researched so far. We examined predictors for infertility and treatment-seeking behaviour in an unmatched case-control. We performed infertility investigations i...

Clinical, epidemiological and prophylactic aspects of dyspepsia.

Dyspepsia or indigestion is a term that refers to a multitude of symptoms and disorders of the digestive system which cause suffering in many patients. Dyspepsia means pain or discomfort that is centrally localized in the upper abdomen. The following categories of symptoms may also be present: pain localized in the right or left hypochondrium, dysphagia, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, acute a...

Neuroborreliosis in children: Epidemiological and clinical aspects