background: almost one third of the global population is living in developing south asia where disease occurrence is high especially in rural areas and people are unaware of water-borne diseases and cost of illness. methods: the quantitative approach involved questionnaire based study (n=50 households). the community awareness, the occurrence of water-borne diseases with related cost of illness...

Mountains cover one-fifth of the earth’s surface; 38 million people live permanently at altitudes ≥2400 m, and 100 million people travel to high-altitude locations each year. Skiers in Aspen, religious pilgrims to Lhasa, trekkers and climbers to Kilimanjaro or Everest, and military personnel deployed to high-altitude locales are all at risk of developing acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-alti...

Society establishes both formal and informal guidelines that influence the behavior of its members. The behavior of an individual with a chronic condition is shaped by these societal influences as well. The individual who fully recovers from an illness returns to prior behaviors and roles. However, when there is only partial recovery or continuing illness, as with a chronic disease, the individ...

This small book in the series "Mind and Medicine Monographs" should be read by every general practitioner. The author has been stimulated by Balint's seminars to study the amount of psychiatric illness in his own practice in the North of Scotland and to settle down to treat it: for, as he says, "the general practitioner is in the most advantageous position for dealing with disturbed human relat...

A January night in 1913 found the two renowned Cambridge mathematicians G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood, in the latter’s rooms in Trinity College, poring over an unsolicited manuscript of mathematical formulae, which had arrived that morning in Hardy’s mail. The letter was from a 25-year-old Hindu clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), who lived in Madras and was as regards mathematics entirely...

  Background: Orthopaedic surgeons have a pivotal role in transitioning the care of orthopedic patients from a biomedical to a biopsychosocial model. In an effort to foster this transition, we designed a study aimed to determine surgeons’ attitudes and practice of noticing, screening, discussing psychological illness with patients, as well as making referrals to address psychosocial issues in ...