Disability is a common occurrence in many countries and a subject of much discussion and lobby. People with disability (PWD) are frequently segregated in society and by-passed for many opportunities. Stigma hinders their potential contribution to society. Doctors with Africa CUAMM, an Italian NGO, started a project to improve the life of PWD in the West Nile region in northwestern Uganda in 200...

OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics of specialists who provide ongoing rural outreach services and whether the nature of their service patterns contributes to ongoing outreach. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Specialist doctors providing rural outreach in a large longitudinal survey of Australian doctors in 2008, together with new entrants to the survey in 2009, were followed up to 2011...

BACKGROUND Encouraged by the increased purchasing power of general practitioners (GPs), specialist-run clinics in general practice and community health care settings (known as specialist outreach clinics) have increased rapidly across England. The activities of local commissioning schemes within primary care groups are likely to accelerate this trend. AIM To evaluate the costs, processes, and...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of specialized hospital treatment vs. outreach treatment of patients with mental retardation and serious mental illness. A total of 50 patients were randomly assigned to either the hospital treatment (n = 25) or the outreach treatment group (n = 25). The outcome measures included psychiatric symptoms, family burden, costs and hospital a...

Ten years' experience of paediatric outreach clinics is reviewed and evaluated. The advantages and disadvantages of paediatric outreach and its possible place in the new era of contracting and more developed community paediatric services are discussed. It is concluded that paediatric outreach increases parental and professional choice and access to paediatric consultant services, increases serv...

Citation: Woo KT, Chan CM, Choong HL, (2017) A Novel Therapy for Diabetic Nephropathy. J Nephrol urol. Vol. 1 No. 1: 2 The ISN (International Society of Nephrology) Global Outreach Programme confirmed that for the less developed countries, compared to the more developed ones, Chronic Glomerulonephritis (Chronic GN) and not Diabetic Nephropathy (DiabNx) is still the leading cause of end stage re...