INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY; Chronic heel pain is the most common condition, accounts about 15 percent in population (Rome, 2005). Chronic plantar heel pain likely present in conditions plantar fascitis, subcalcaneal bursitis, neuritis, subcalcaneal spur (Narvaez et al, 2006). The common cause of chronic plantar heel pain is plantar fascitis.pain may occur along the entire attachment of the plantar fascia or limited usually on the inferior medial aspect of the calcaneum,the bony ...
Occupational Analysis - Discuss the relationship between occupation and health and recognise factors which facilitate occupational performance. In the context of this essay “occupation” is taken to encompass care of self, leisure and employment (American Occupational Therapy Association: Uniform Terminology, 1994) whereby the person interacts with the environment. These areas are not mutually exclusive. It is the “ordinary and familiar things that people do every day” (American Occupational T...
Medical Errors Hospital Disclosure of Medical errors in every day clinical practice. Introduction Medical errors are very common in every day clinical practice. Even taking serious caution does not make the error free hospital any where in the world. According to British Medical Journal ( cited in Adams 2005), “about 850,000 medical errors occurs in National Health hospitals every year resulting in 40,000 deaths…. Adverse events occur in 10% of all hospital patients" (p. 274). Today’s times 2...
Structured questionnaires comprises of a list of questions along with a list of answers to choose from (Reis, 2009). Unstructured questionnaires are the type where a list of questions have been designed by the researcher and no answers are given to choose from, thus giving the respondent blank space to fill in with their desired answers (Reis, 2009). These are the types where the respondents are given complete prudence to write their personal opinions about the topic (Reis, 2009). Another com...
The role of pharmacists in developing countries: the current scenario in Pakistan Abstract During the past few years, the pharmacy profession has expanded significantly in terms of professional services delivery and now has been recognized as an important profession in the multidisciplinary provision of health care. In contrast to the situation in developed countries, pharmacists in developing countries are still underutilized and their role as health care professionals is not deemed importan...
Monitoring is the observation and analysing of activities occurring during a project. It is a process of gathering information on all focus points of the project. To monitor is to analyse the progress of an activity. Monitoring involves feedback of progress of the project to the necessary persons involved. Feedback allows the collected information to be used based on improving project performance or progress eg: keeping progress of a certain application. What is Evaluation? Evaluation is the ...
Identifying lung function disturbances is paramount to the diagnosis of restrictive and obstructive lung conditions, assessment of condition severity and decision on course of treatment. Whole body plethysmography is a highly sensitive test used on its own or as an adjunct to conventional lung function tests for further investigation of lung mechanics. It allows for the measurement of total lung volume, assessment of airway resistance and also the test of bronchial hypersensitivity done with ...
Obesity in America has reached its epidemic state, and the increasing of it seems to be going higher day by day without any signs of declining. This has extended even to children who are below 11 years of age. Screening the trends of increase in obesity has therefore become a current trend in the United States. This is conducted by medical sources, media periodicals as well as the commercial industries. According to the scientific heath information, there is complete evidence that quality lif...
Final year medical students' understanding of issues involving generic medicines Irrational prescribing practices are prevalent in both developed and developing countries, with extensive economic consequences (118,119). In the context of rising healthcare coast, most western countries are enhancing rational pharmacotherapy to reach best value for the continuously increasing expenditure on medicines.(123,124)prescribing lower coast generic medicines can help to achieve this objective. Educatio...
Physician report cards are used in many hospitals and other health providing institutions and they mainly aid in the advancement of the general hospital care through the provision of quality health information to people seeking treatment and also the general population. Hospital report cards not only aim at aiding patients and the general public seeking health care in making informed choices regarding health care and, but also aids hospitals and other health care providers improve on service ...
