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Essential Drugs for Primary Health Care: A Manual for Health Workers in South-east Asia - Couverture souple

Shein, K.; Gaitonde, B.B.

 
9789290221852: Essential Drugs for Primary Health Care: A Manual for Health Workers in South-east Asia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9290221852 ISBN 13 : 9789290221852
Editeur : WHO Regional Office for South East Asia, 2000

Synopsis

An illustrated manual designed to help community health workers learn how to use simple drugs to treat common illnesses.

Specific to health conditions in Southeast Asian countries, the book uses simple explanatory texts and illustrations to communicate instructions for treating illnesses and knowing when a patient must be referred to a doctor. First issued in 1988 and revised in 1992, the book has been further expanded and updated in line with new knowledge and considerable experience with use of the previous editions. The manual has two parts. The first provides instructions for the correct and appropriate use of 34 essential drugs, ranging from aspirin and paracetamol, through chloroquine and oral re-hydration salts, to penicillin tetracycline eye ointment and several vitamins. Each is described according to a common framework that explains how the drug helps, when it should be used, how it is supplied and given to patients, side effects that may occur, and special precautions to follow. Where appropriate, information on dosage and prescribing schedule by age and weight is set out in tabular form. Part two provides advice for the management or referral of 22 common medical problems moving from anemia, cough, diarrhea, and ear and eye problems through HIV/AIDS, leprosy, malaria and tuberculosis, to poisoning, snakebites, wounds, burns, and shock. Advice on pain relief and on the management of skin and tooth problems is also provided.

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Éditeur
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9290221852
ISBN 13 
9789290221852
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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