Analysis of the regulatory framework about provision of medical and social care to HIV infected children during the first years of life in the practice of the family doctor

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
L.F. Matyukha ◽  
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N.V. Medvedovskaya ◽  
G.V. Batsyura ◽  
T.V. Veselova ◽  
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Medic ro ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (125) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Liliana-Ana Tuţă ◽  
Laura Condur ◽  
Alina Mihaela Stăniguţ ◽  
Camelia Pană

1958 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Guy Daynes

Author(s):  
Rosália Páscoa ◽  
Andreia Teixeira ◽  
Micaela Gregório ◽  
Rosa Carvalho ◽  
Carlos Martins

Lifestyle interventions are recognized as essential in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases. Previous studies have shown that Portuguese patients tend to give more importance to diagnostic and laboratory tests than to lifestyle measures, and seem unaware that behavioral risks are the main modifiable risk factors. The study aimed to analyze patients’ perspectives about lifestyle behaviors and health in the context of family medicine in Portugal. A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out in Portugal (the mainland). A total of 900 Portuguese patients aged ≥20 years, representative of the population, were surveyed using face-to-face questionnaires. Participants were selected by the random route method. Descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests were performed to evaluate differences between the personal beliefs and the personal behavior self-assessment, as well as between the level of importance given to the family doctor to address health behaviors and the reported approach implemented by the family doctor, and its association with bio-demographic variables. The results indicate that the vast majority of this Portuguese cohort has informed beliefs regarding lifestyle behaviors, tends to overestimate their own behavior self-assessment, and strongly agrees that it is important that their family doctor asks/advises on these lifestyle behaviors, although the proportion of those who totally agree that their family doctor usually does this is significantly lower. Differences concerning bio-demographic variables were found. Future research directions should focus on the politics, economics, and policy aspects that may have an impact in this area. It will also be important to understand more broadly the relationships between lifestyle behaviors and clinical, physical, and sociodemographic variables.


1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Mark

An investigation is presented of 87 Danish infants born to 62 drugaddicted mothers who had been pregnant altogether 145 times. In Denmark all pregnant women are offered prophylactic examinations, sometimes by their family doctor, sometimes by the midwife and in special cases by the obstetric clinic. Despite the fact that this antenatal care is considered especially important, not least for the addicted, pregnant woman, these offers were only poorly utilised. There were four perinatal deaths, of which two were stillbirths, further 3 infants died later as a result of abuse or neglect. After discharge from hospital only 43 infants lived at home with their mothers. The rest were either voluntarily or compulsorily placed with the mothers' parents, in family care, or in a childrens home. Only 2 infants were adopted. After their return home from the labour wards the mothers took little advantage of the prophylactic paediatric examinations and the vaccination program which are offered free by the family doctor to all children of pre-school age. The same was true regarding domiciliary visits by the health visitor.


The Lancet ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 280 (7262) ◽  
pp. 923-924
Keyword(s):  

1981 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-548
Author(s):  
Douglas Woolf ◽  
Mary Corbett

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Pérez Requejo ◽  
Justo Aznar Lucea

Mai prima d’ora i pazienti gravemente malati o con malattie incurabili o croniche, sono stati così esposti a organizzazioni mediche senza scrupoli, che approfittando del loro logico disagio e della loro preoccupazione promettono cure miracolose e trattamenti, facendo pagare enormi somme di denaro per procedure senza alcuna garanzia, alcun reale beneficio e, peggio ancora, con gravi rischi per la salute. Questo articolo discute alcuni casi di pazienti che hanno pagato con la loro salute, spesso irrimediabilmente, o in maniera catastrofica, gli effetti di terapie teoricamente avanzate con cellule staminali di alcuni centri. Ci si è riferiti a diversi paesi che, in tempi anche non remoti, offrono e praticano qualcuno di questi trattamenti, il più delle volte attraverso strategie di marketing dirette e aggressive per i pazienti o le loro famiglie, mostrando reale o fittizi rapporti relativi ad altri pazienti, ma senza previ studi scientifici che avvalorino i risultati dei presunti benefici. In questo articolo, discutiamo alcuni utili suggerimenti e linee guida internazionali per riconoscerli ed evitarli. Inoltre, abbiamo discusso in dettaglio le ragioni specifiche per cui la maggior parte dei medici e clinici sollevino dei dubbi sulla competenza e le ragioni etiche di questi centri e scoraggino i viaggi di questo “turismo medico”. È sempre consigliabile chiedere il consiglio del medico di famiglia o specialista, prima della decisione dei pazienti di ricevere trattamenti dubbi, con la certezza che il paziente avrà sempre la sua comprensione e il supporto emotivo e medico. ---------- Never before seriously ill patients with chronic or incurable diseases have been so exposed to unscrupulous medical organizations that, taking advantage of their logical distress and worry, promise miracle cures and treatments and charge them huge amounts of money for procedures with no guarantee, no real benefits and, even worse, with serious risks to their health. This paper discusses some cases of patients who paid with their health, often irreparably, or catastrophically, the effects of supposedly advanced therapy centers with stem cells. Several countries are mentioned, not always as remote, which offer and practice any of these treatments, most often by direct and aggressive marketing to patients or their families, showing real or fictional accounts of other patients, but without the previous studies and scientific papers that endorse their supposed beneficial results. In this article we discuss some useful hints and international guidelines to recognize and avoid them. Also, we discussed in detail the specific reasons why most doctors and clinics doubt about the competence and ethical reasons of these centers and discourage those “medical tourism” trips. It is always advisable to seek the advice of the family doctor or specialist in charge, before the patients decision to receive dubious treatments, with the assurance that, decide what the patient decide, they will have always his understanding and his emotional and medical support.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. E7-E10
Author(s):  
Julia Bisschops
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