Short report: engagement with health services during the COVID-19 outbreak: the case of Israeli people with diabetes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Shiri Shinan-Altman
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Short Report

scholarly journals The contribution of family medicine to community-orientated health services in Mali: A short report

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahamane M. Maïga ◽  
Gabriel Blouin Genest ◽  
François Couturier ◽  
Sarah Stecko ◽  
Michèle Rietmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Health Services ◽  
International Development ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Short Report ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Medical Speciality

Family medicine has not received appropriate attention in the sub-Saharan African context. In particular, family medicine is rarely recognised as a medical speciality and most African countries are silent on the role of family medicine in their health systems. There is, however, an emerging interest in developing family medicine as a key component of primary healthcare. Postgraduate training in family medicine is progressing and many countries have already established specific training programmes. In addition, there have been attempts to define the importance of family medicine, which, we expect, this short report contributes to. Interviews were conducted with physicians, partners and beneficiaries of two international development projects funded by the Canadian government. The one project supports training of health professionals and the other education of healthy women and girls in the community. The objective was to document the strengthening of primary healthcare through the creation and adaptation of a new family and community medicine postgraduate medical programme (which includes both family and community medicine) emphasising field training, immersion in local communities and interdisciplinary collaboration. This article underlines the importance of family medicine in Mali by documenting how what is now termed family and community medicine can promote community-orientated health services. To do so, we use the examples of initiatives and actions done through two international health development projects.

scholarly journals The role played by family physicians in providing health services for the sheltered homeless populations during COVID-19 lockdown in the Tshwane district

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith N. Madela-Mntla ◽  
Wayne Renkin ◽  
Johannes F. Hugo ◽  
Paul S. Germishuys
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Management Quality ◽  
The City

This short report describes the role that family physicians (FPs) (and family medicine registrars) played to provide care for the homeless people in shelters (both temporary and permanent) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. The lockdown resulted in the establishment of a large number of temporary shelters. The FPs took on the task to provide comprehensive and coordinated primary care, whilst extending their activities in terms of data management, quality improvement, capacity building and research. The FPs worked in teams with other healthcare providers and contributed a unique set of skills to the process. This report demonstrates the value of responding quickly and appropriately through communication, cooperation and innovation. It also demonstrates the large number of areas in which FPs can make a difference when engaged appropriately, with the necessary support and collaboration, thus making a positive impact in the already overburdened health services.

Acquisition of EELS spectra for high-resolution spectroscopy

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 578-579
Author(s):  
Maoxu Qian ◽  
Mehmet Sarikaya ◽  
Edward A. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Detection System ◽  
High Resolution Spectroscopy ◽  
High Signal ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Edge Structure ◽  
High Background ◽  
Gain Variation ◽  
Sufficient Energy ◽  
On Line

It is difficult, in general, to perform quantitative EELS to determine, for example, relative or absolute compositions of elements with relatively high atomic numbers (using, e.g., K edge energies from 500 eV to 2000 eV), to study ELNES (energy loss near edge structure) signal using the white lines to determine oxidation states, and to analyze EXELFS (extended energy loss fine structure) to study short range ordering. In all these cases, it is essential to have high signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio (low systematical error) with high overall counts, and sufficient energy resolution (∽ 1 eV), requirements which are, in general, difficult to attain. The reason is mainly due to three important inherent limitations in spectrum acquisition with EELS in the TEM. These are (i) large intrinsic background in EELS spectra, (ii) channel-to-channel gain variation (CCGV) in the parallel detection system, and (iii) difficulties in obtaining statistically high total counts (∽106) per channel (CH). Except the high background in the EELS spectrum, the last two limitations may be circumvented, and the S/N ratio may be attained by the improvement in the on-line acquisition procedures. This short report addresses such procedures.

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