Postoperative fever
Problem 2 Postoperative fever Wendy A. Brown A 25-year-old woman presents back to the emergency department 10 days following an open appendicectomy for perforated appendicitis. She was discharged 5 days…
A young woman with abnormal vaginal bleeding
Problem 7 A young woman with abnormal vaginal bleeding Roger J. Pepperell A 32-year-old woman attends a general practice because she has had some irregular vaginal bleeding for the last…
Difficulties with postoperative fluid balance in a 58-year-old man
Problem 1 Difficulties with postoperative fluid balance in a 58-year-old man Richard J. Krysztopik A 58-year-old man is seen in the emergency department with abdominal pain and vomiting. He has…
Confusion in the postoperative ward
Problem 4 Confusion in the postoperative ward Toby T. Winton-Brown You are the resident on call covering the night shift and finally about to get some sleep when a concerned…
Assessing the health of populations: epidemiology in public health
Figure 10.1 Natural history of disease and levels of prevention (adapted from Gertsman, 2013, Figure 2.1, p. 37) Traditionally, epidemiology was mainly concerned with epidemics of communicable disease. Nowadays contemporary epidemiology…
Health of migrants and refugees
Figure 17.1 Framework for analysis of the social determinants of migrant health (adapted from Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, 2007) Contemporary migration flows Contemporary migration includes permanent, temporary,…
Behavioural, nutritional and environmental determinants and public health
Figure 6.1 A conceptual framework for determinants of health (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014) Behavioural determinants include a range of behaviours that may directly cause disease, such as…
Human rights, social justice and public health
Figure 8.1 Summary content of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wording derived from summaries given in OHCHR. A simplified version of the UDHR is available at…
The health of rural peoples
Figure 18.1 Concepts underpinning social change (adapted from Papa et al., 2006) These scholars further propose that communities or groups where the balance of the tension is situated within or…
Healthy ageing
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 14 Healthy ageing Briony Dow, Elizabeth Cyarto and Frances Batchelor Learning objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: define healthy ageing and describe…
