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Public Health Diary: The art of KISS-ing in public health
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Excitements. Experiences. Experiments. Sunday, March 18, 2012. The art of KISS-ing in public health. My first teacher in public health was Dr Surendra Shastri. During one of my first interactions with him in 1992, he said: "You have a good knack for summarizing things." Yes, I love to KISS. Here are some interesting excerpts from the book:. Good checklists. are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everyt...The reaso...
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Public Health Diary: Reach out to the elderly people to find TB
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Excitements. Experiences. Experiments. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Reach out to the elderly people to find TB. Screening elderly populations for TB is critical for the success of National TB Programs. In 2011, TB prevalence survey of Cambodia showed that 55% of bacteriologic positive cases of TB are over 55 years old, although their populations are about 7% of the total population. The TB prevalence survey of 2002 had shown similar findings. Other countries may have a similar picture. Whatever their reasons...
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Public Health Diary: Conduct active case finding to find "missing" TB patients
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Excitements. Experiences. Experiments. Monday, April 9, 2012. Conduct active case finding to find missing TB patients. We are missing 1000s of TB patients because of wrong screening and diagnostic approaches. About 50% of tuberculosis (TB) patients do not have the classical symptom of cough for more than two weeks. Unfortunately, many National TB Programs (NTPs) continue to emphasize on this symptom for TB screening. Active case finding is a provider-initiated screening and diagnostic approach for findin...
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Public Health Diary: Use wisdom and compassion to serve the needy
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Excitements. Experiences. Experiments. Thursday, April 12, 2012. Use wisdom and compassion to serve the needy. I read recently that wisdom and compassion are like the two wings of a bird. If you have wisdom, but no compassion, you will not have the will to serve the needy. If you have compassion, but no wisdom, you will not have the know-how to serve the needy. You may be as helpless as them. I have come across many patients who continued to suffer and even died because they could not pay illegal user fe...
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Better than Snake « clairebassford
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Photo from http:/ www.rightnowintech.com. The Internet is only as useful as we allow it to be. There are tons of tools and useful websites out there; you just have to find them. Ten years ago, if you were sitting in O’Hare International Airport waiting for your three hour layover to end, you would probably read the latest issue of TIME magazine or play Snake on your Tracfone. Or heaven forbid have a conversation with the stranger sitting next to you. I recently discovered Stumbleupon.com. Button and that...
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November « 2011 « clairebassford
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Monthly Archives: November 2011. Http:/ www.xanga.com/. Social media is always changing and moving forward. But, naturally, with every future comes a past. When most of my friends and I first got cell phones, we had a limited number of text messages per month. I had one hundred. You could almost guarantee that if one of your friends was grounded for the weekend, it was because she went over her text message limit, thus causing the bill to be outrageous, and her parents to be ticked. This week, is a compu...
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Public Health Diary: About this blog
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Excitements. Experiences. Experiments. Sunday, March 11, 2012. This blog is all about the excitements, experiences and experiments in the field of public health. If you have something to share, then please write them down as "comments". Congratulations on a good effort. You are proving the adage that documentation of ones work experiences can be an effective learning tool. Thank you. April 10, 2012 at 10:07 PM. April 10, 2012 at 10:20 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Screening elderly populations ...
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