The Community Medicine of Cerebrovascular Disease • We now know enough about the incidence rates of cerebrovascular disease in different age groups in the U.SA. to estimate the number of new cases occurring in mainly white communities in the coming years. Our information on nonwhite incidence is less secure, although rough estimates are possible. Prevalence figures are also known, but give less...

National Specialty Society for Community Medicine Position Statement on Chrysotile Asbestos June 2010 Background The adverse health effects associated with exposure to asbestos exposure have been well established. Epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory studies have shown that asbestos is capable of causing lung cancer, mesothelioma, and a range of asbestos‐related diseases (International ...

We report the attempt to set up a mini sports medicine clinic in a health centre resourced by a Department of Community Medicine. The type of problems seen are similar to those reported by other clinics. On the results of this pilot project, we believe it would be possible to establish similar clinics in health centres elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The National Health Service resources requi...

Out-of-hospital emergencies occur frequently, and laypersons are often the first to respond to these events. As an outreach to our local communities, we developed "Basic Emergency Interventions Everyone Should Know," a three-hour program addressing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use, heart attack and stroke recognition and intervention, choking and bleeding i...

There is an acknowledged need for better information to guide resource allocation and service planning in the health services. Despite the recognition of the important role of socioeconomic factors, difficulties with the appropriate presentation of daya have so far proved insuperable. Social area analysis (SAA), which is a generic name for a number of methods employing census and other data to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine postgraduate programmes in Kenya are examining the benefits of Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) curriculum, as a method to train residents in population-based approaches to health care delivery. Whilst COPC is an established part of family medicine training in the United States, little is known about its application in Kenya. We sought to conduct ...