Screen LibraryRevolutionizing tropical medicine : point-of-care tests, new imaging technologies and digital health /
"Revolutionizing Tropical Medicine offers an up-to-date guide for healthcare and other professionals working in low-resource countries where access to health care facilities for diagnosis and treatment is challenging. Rather than suggesting the expensive solution of building new bricks and mort...
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Wiley Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Revolutionizing Tropical Medicine offers an up-to-date guide for healthcare and other professionals working in low-resource countries where access to health care facilities for diagnosis and treatment is challenging. Rather than suggesting the expensive solution of building new bricks and mortar clinics and hospitals and increasing the number of doctors and nurses in these deprived areas, the authors propose a complete change of mindset. They outline a number of ideas for improving healthcare including rapid diagnostic testing for infectious and non-infectious diseases at a point-of-care fa |
| Carrier Form: | xxxix, 728 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119282648 1119282640 |
| Index Number: | RC961 |
| CLC: | R188.11 |
| Call Number: | R188.11/R454 |
| Contents: | Section 1. The health of low- to middle-income countries today 1. The burden of communicable diseases in low- to middle-income countries today -- Kerry Atkinson and David Mabey; 2. The burden of non-communicable diseases in low- to middle-income countries today -- Heiner Grosskurth; Section 2. How to improve health care in low- to middle-income countries by primary point-of-care rapid diagnostic testing 3. The optimal features of a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test -- David Mabey and Rosanna Peeling; 4. Revolutionizing HIV healthcare delivery through rapid and point-of-care testing -- Cath |