Manual of Community Nursing and Communicable Diseases: A Textbook for South African Students

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Juta 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
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome AIDS
599
35
618
36
629
Enteric Bowel Infections
637
Vectorborne Diseases
649
38
675
Hearing Impairment
689
40
699
41
711
42
735
735
759
44
769
Accident Prevention
781
The Epidemiology and Prevention of Cancer
791
47
813
viii
834
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