For the past 25 years the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti has been providing a wide range of maternal and child health services to the people of its rural district. Numerous special services for mothers and children have been added over the years, but these began to realize considerably greater potential with the creation of the hospital's Community Health Department in 1967....

Andrew C. F. Hui*, Shiu-man Wong† and James Griffi th‡ *Senior Medical Offi cer, Electrodiagnostic Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital; †Medical Offi cer, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, North District Hospital; ‡Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging Department, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; E-mail: [email protected]...

Sara J. Brown, P. D. Barrett, A. Hendrick and J. A. A. Langtry Department of Dermatology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, Pathology Department, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields, Tyne and Wear and Department of Dermatology, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Accepted March 28...

1 Second Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 2 Departament of Gastroenterology, Colentina Hospital, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania Corresponding author: Lucian Negreanu Second Department of Internal Medicine, Emergency University Hospital, 169 Splaiul Independentei, 5th District, Buchares...

In its institutional structure, financing and goals, the Finnish health care system is closest to those of other Nordic countries and the United Kingdom in that it covers the whole population and its services are mainly produced by the public sector and financed through general taxation. However, compared to the other Nordic countries the Finnish system is more decentralized; in fact, it can be...

∗Department of Neurology, York District Hospital, Wigginton Road, York YO3 7HE, UK; †The Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Eaton Road, West Derby, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK; ‡Birmingham University Seizure Clinic, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2QZ, UK; §The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; ¶The Su...

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

BACKGROUND The Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has run a surgical outreach programme for over a decade.Objective. To quantify the impact of the outreach programme by analysing its effect on the operative capacity of a single rural health district. METHODS During 2012, investigators visited each district hospital in Sisonke Health District (SHD), KZN to quantify surgery undertaken ...

KHA-CARI guideline recommendations for the diagnosis and management of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease GOPALA K RANGAN, STEPHEN I ALEXANDER, KATRINA L CAMPBELL, MARK AJ DEXTER, VINCENT W LEE, PAMELA LOPEZ-VARGAS, JUN MAI, ANDREW MALLETT, CHIRAG PATEL, MANISH PATEL, MICHEL C TCHAN, ALLISON TONG, DAVID J TUNNICLIFFE, PHILIP VLADICA and JUDY SAVIGE Centre for Transplant and Renal Rese...