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Primary Health Care Edited by Ayşe Emel Önal

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Ayşe Emel Önal
Ayşe Emel Önal

Istanbul University,
Turkey

Published16 March 2022

Doi10.5772/intechopen.94677

ISBN978-1-83969-807-1

Print ISBN978-1-83969-806-4

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-1-83969-808-8

Copyright year2022

Number of pages344

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Health Promotion

By Florence Tochukwu Sibeudu

905
2. Primary Care in the USA: The Long Struggle to Build its Foundational Role

By John Geyman

288
3. Patient-Centred Point-of-Care Testing: A Life-Changing Technology for Remote Primary Care

By Brooke Spaeth, Susan Matthews and Mark Shephard

390
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4. The Newborn Baby Check

By Harishan Tharmarajah

162
5. COVID-19 Transmission in Children: Implications for Schools

By Evelyn Mendoza-Torres, Franklin Torres, Wendy Rosales-Rada, Liliana Encinales, Lil Avendaño, María Fernanda Pérez, Ivana Terán, David Vergara, Estefanie Osorio-Llanes, Paige Fierbaugh, Wendy Villamizar, Aileen Y. Chang and Jairo Castellar-Lopez

286
Erratum: COVID-19 Transmission in Children: Implications for Schools

By Evelyn Mendoza-Torres, Franklin Torres, Wendy Rosales-Rada, Liliana Encinales, Lil Avendaño, María Fernanda Pérez, Ivana Terán, David Vergara, Estefanie Osorio-Llanes, Paige Fierbaugh, Wendy Villamizar, Aileen Y. Chang and Jairo Castellar-Lopez

6. Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pediatrics

By Diana Coronel-Martínez and Luis Augusto Moya-Barquín

291
7. Chlamydial Infection

By Dimitra Metallinou, Christina Nanou, Antigoni Sarantaki, Eleftheria Lazarou, Anastasia Liagkou and Katerina Lykeridou

331
8. Anemia during Pregnancy and Its Prevalence

By Sehar Zulkifal, Shumaila Sarwar, Madiha Saddique, Khalida Yaqoob, Arshia Muneer, Aisha Fatima, Ayesha Kabir, Muhammad Asad Mangat, Laiba Mateen, Zeeshan Javed and Maleeha Manzoor

386
9. Managing Polypharmacy and Deprescribing in Elderly

By Çiğdem Apaydın Kaya

297
10. Use of Primary Healthcare Facilities for Care and Support of Chronic Diseases: Hypertension

By Maseabata Ramathebane, Maja Lineo and Sello Molungoa

168
11. Impact of Cardiovascular Diseases on the Outcome of Patients with COVID-19

By Seeta Devi Akyana and Dipali Dumbre

202
12. Aplication Arterial Oscilography to Study the Adaptive Capacity of Subject with COVID-19 in Primary Care

By Dmytro Vakulenko, Liudmyla Vakulenko, Leonid Hryshchuk and Lesya Sas

208
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13. The Need to Strengthen Primary Health Care Services to Improve Mental Health Care Services in South Africa

By Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena and Velaphi Anthony Mokwena

241
14. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in Primary Healthcare Facilities in Jordan in the Context of COVID-19

By Yousef Khader, Mohamad Alyahya and Rami Saadeh

132
15. Strategies to Enhance Compliance to Health and Safety Protocols within the South African Mining Environment

By Livhuwani Muthelo, Tebogo Maria Mothiba and Rambelani Nancy Malema

615
16. Early Occupational Therapy Intervention: Patients’ Occupational Needs

By Margherita Schiavi, Barbara Volta, Gilda Sandri, Erica Keeling and Maria Teresa Mascia

188
17. Telephone Consultations by Medical Scheme Patients Consulting General Medical Practitioners, South Africa

By Michael Mncedisi Willie, Neo Nonyana and Sipho Kabane

189
18. Utilisation of Digital Health in Early Detection and Treatment of Pre-Eclampsia in Primary Health Care Facilities South Africa: Literature Review

By Mxolisi Welcome Ngwenya, Livhuwani Muthelo, Masenyani Oupa Mbombi, Mamare Adelaide Bopape and Tebogo Maria Mothiba

188
19. Evaluating A Mobile App for Data Collection in Occupational Therapy Practice

By Tanja Svarre, Marie Bangsgaard Bang and Tine Bieber Lunn

212

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