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Introduction Public Education in Cancer Control
There has been an increasing realization in recent years that education of the public about cancer is an essential element of cancer control and prevention. In 1963 an Expert Comittee of the World Health Organ...
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The Behaviour of the Individual and Motivation
This section of the monograph is treated differently from the rest. It has been possible in other sections to prepare either detailed bibliographies of published work on the study of attitudes to cancer, as in...
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Health Education: Some Principles and Practice
For a comprehensive yet manageable review of the principles of health education, as derived from behavioural studies, we can do no better than refer the reader to Section III of Health Education Monographs, Suppl...
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Attitudes to Cancer
This chapter will deal with topics related directly to attitudes to cancer and other diseases; the nature, sources, and extent of these attitudes both in the medical profession and in the general population.
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Attitudes and Communication
In the first chapters of this work we presented evidence to show that many people react to the idea of cancer in a largely negative and unwarranted manner. This is only one example of what is commonly termed a...
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Redefining the Mission of the Medical School
Organizational and institutional turbulence and shrinking academic budgets are buffeting medical schools in both industrialized and develo** countries. Current political and public scrutiny is focused on esc...
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Measuring the Burden of Illness in General Populations
This chapter has two themes: medical schools have traditionally failed to devote attention to the determinants of health and medical students are taught on an unrepresentative sample of patients and health condit...
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Population-Based Medicine: A Case Study from a Traditional School
In the United States, physician education developed within and was formed by two institutions: the medical school and the teaching hospital, the first emphasizing basic science and second emphasizing, supervis...
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Essential Institutional Competencies for Population-Based Education
If a medical school is not turning out a mix of clinicians capable of meeting the wide variety of needs for medical care that characterizes all human populations, the relevance and validity of its teaching and...
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Balancing Perspectives
For 3 days the participants in the Turnberry Conference debated the points raised in the eight preceding chapters by the authors, discussants, and others. All were agreed that while medical education had adapt...
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The Social Contract and the Medical School’s Responsibilities
This is a chapter with a point of view. In brief, since medical care is a social good, medical schools have “social responsibilities” that can and should be manifest in their mission and activities. Our explor...
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The Potential and Organization of Health Intelligence Units
Is the role of the university in society simply to generate, interpret, and transmit new knowledge? Or will universities come out of the “ivory tower” and join in meaningful partnerships with community leaders...
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A Community and Population-Oriented Medical School: Newcastle, Australia
Newcastle is the commercial and industrial center of the Hunter Valley, which was first explored by Europeans almost 200 years ago. The city started as a convict station established to mine large coal deposits...
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Essential Population-Based Competencies for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Students
This chapter is written from the standpoint of an academic clinician. Its perspective is therefore likely to differ from that which might be advanced by an epidemiologist, community physician, or other expert ...
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Die Prävention psychischer Erkrankungen und die Förderung psychischer Gesundheit
Depressive Störungen bilden nach den Herz- Kreislauferkrankungen in Europa mittlerweile die zweitwichtigste Ursache für den Verlust gesunder Lebensjahre. Angesichts der mit dieser Entwicklung verbundenen sozia...
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Telemedizin in der Tertiärprävention: Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse des Telemedizin-Projektes Zertiva® bei Herzinsuffizienz-Patienten der Techniker Krankenkasse
Ziel: Es wurde die Wirtschaftlichkeit einer telemedizinischen Betreuung bei Patienten mit Herzinsuffizienz untersucht.
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Lebenszufriedenheit bei chronischen Erkrankungen: Zum wechselseitigen Einfluss von Strategien der Krankheits-bewältigung, Depression und Sozialer Unterstützung
Wir wissen, dass chronisch erkrankte Patienten mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit an Depression leiden, und dass depressive Personen umgekehrt auch mit erhöhter Wahrscheinlichkeit chronisch erkranken. Auf der Basi...
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Zahnverlust und Zahnersatz vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels
Durch den Bevölkerungsrückgang und die zunehmende Lebenserwartung ist Deutschland in einem gravierenden Umstrukturierungsprozess begriffen, der auch im Bereich der Mundgesundheit erhebliche Auswirkungen haben ...
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Präventionsstrategien für sozial Benachteiligte
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse aus der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung des verhaltenspräventiven außercurricularen Unterrichtsprogramms „Erwachsen werden“ von Lions Quest, das an deutschen ...
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Prävention durch den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst
Die Vermeidung von Erkrankungen und Förderung der Gesundheit sind die traditionellen Arbeitsaufträge an den öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst (ÖGD). Seine konkreten Schwerpunktaufgaben haben sich jedoch den jewei...
