Manual of Community Nursing and Communicable Diseases: A Textbook for South African StudentsJuta and Company Ltd, 1996 M01 28 - 838 pages This edition, written as South Africa moves from expensive curative health care to a more people-focused primary health-care system, highlights transitional structures and bridges the gap between past and present. Part One focuses on the Government of National Unity and population development programmes, emphasising the role of community nurses in the primary health-care system. Subsequent sections cover factors playing an important role in community nursing, including housing, urbanisation and malnutrition. In accordance with the National Health-care Plan for South Africa, prominence is given to issues such as health education and maternal and child health care. The section on communicable diseases has been updated and takes into account changes in legislation and the latest statistical information. Primary health-care problems at community level are covered in depth. Students and practitioners will benefit from the wealth of information in this new edition. |
Contents
Government of National Unity GNU Community Health Care | 3 |
Restructuring of Nursing Organisation | 15 |
An Introduction to Primary Health Care PHC | 25 |
Community Health Worker | 33 |
Occupational Health Nursing | 45 |
6 | 77 |
8 | 88 |
Medical Genetics | 107 |
PART 5 | 440 |
28 | 456 |
Control of Communicable Diseases | 475 |
31 | 518 |
Bacterial Infections | 541 |
32 | 549 |
Viral Infections | 557 |
33 | 572 |
Environmental Hygiene Air and Soil Soil Conservation | 143 |
Environmental Hygiene Food and Water Water Conservation | 159 |
11 | 169 |
Housing Urbanisation | 181 |
Global and South African Food Problems Malnutrition Poverty in South Africa | 203 |
PART 3 | 218 |
13 | 225 |
14 | 235 |
Health Education and Smoking | 243 |
Health Education in Nutrition | 253 |
Hyperlipidaemia and Atherogenesis | 287 |
Preventive Dentistry | 301 |
19 | 313 |
Community Antenatal Services | 367 |
22 | 381 |
Child Mortality Child Health Clinics | 391 |
Child Welfare in the RSA Child Care Act Child Abuse Social Assistance Act | 405 |
AID Oral Rehydration Therapy | 431 |
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