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This book guides clinicians through the management of common situations found in palliative medicine. Using patient case scenarios, it gives students and medical professionals an accessible, evidence-based entryway to gain the skills and knowledge needed to provide high quality palliative and end of life care to patients and their families.

Front cover -- Dedication -- Front matter -- Community medicine -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART A: PRACTICAL -- Section 1: Spotters -- 1 Vaccination -- Common questions for all vaccines -- Common questions and answers -- Nis and characteristics of vaccines -- Additional information of specific vaccines -- Cold chain-related spotters -- 2 Nutrition -- Common questions for food item spotter -- Cereals -- Wheat (fig. 2.1) -- Rice -- Rice: Milled (fig. 2.2) -- Rice: Parboiled (fig. 2.3) -- Maize (fig. 2.4) -- Millets -- Jowar (sorghum) (fig. 2.5) -- Bajra (pearl millet) (fig. 2.6) -- Ragi (finger millet) (fig. 2.7) -- Common question for all millets -- Common questions for all cereals and millets -- Pulses -- Common questions and answers for all pulses or legumes -- Soya bean (fig. 2.23) -- Lathyrus sativus (khesari dal/grass peas) (figs 2.24 and 2.25) -- Vegetables -- Fruits -- Milk, milk products and animal foods -- Milk -- Oils and fats -- Common questions and answers for all oils and fats spotters -- Vegetable oils -- Mustard oil (fig. 2.27) -- Groundnut oil (fig. 2.28) -- Coconut oil (fig. 2.29) -- Vegetable ghee (vanaspati ghee) (fig. 2.30) -- Butter (fig. 2.31) -- Cow's ghee (clarified butter) -- Nuts and oilseeds -- Signs of vitamin a deficiency (fig. 2.38) -- Iodized salt -- Iodine (spot) test kit (fig. 2.39) -- 3 Contraception -- Introduction -- Male condom (nirodh) -- Combined oral contraceptive pills (cocs) (mala-n/mala-d/khushi cocs) (fig. 3.2) -- Intrauterine contraceptive device (iucd) (copper-t 380a and cu-t 375) -- Dmpa injectable contraceptive (antara) -- Centchroman/ormeloxifene (chhaya, saheli) -- Emergency contraceptive pill (levonorgestrel) (ezy pill, ec pill) -- 4 Medical entomology -- Common questions -- Classification of arthropods of health importance -- Mosquitoes

AbstractThis paper surveys the field of biostatistics in medicine as it has developed in the Netherlands. We look into the recent past and the present, and try to foresee future developments.

In response to a broad set of complex national security challenges of the twenty-first century, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) report of Febru- ary 2006 advised that all the organizations, processes, and practices within the Department of Defense be given a high degree of agility, flexibility, responsive- ness, and ultimately effectiveness in supporting the joint war fighter and future national defense goals.