Immigrant Medicine: Text with CD-ROM

By Patricia Frye Walker

784 pagesFeatures expert guidance on data collection, legal, interpretive and social adjustment issues, as well as best practices in caring for immigrants to help you confidently manage all aspects of immigrant medicine.Includes detailed discussions on major depression, post traumatic stress disorder, and issues related to torture so you can effectively diagnose and treat common psychiatric issues.Covers international and new-arrival screening and immunizations offering you invaluable advice.Presents a templated diseases/disorders section with discussions on tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and common parasites that helps you easily manage the diseases and syndromes you are likely to encounter.Provides boxed features and tables, differential diagnoses, and treatment algorithms to help you absorb information at a glance.Includes a CD containing multi-lingual health education sheets and links to further multi-lingual resources so you can easily educate your patients.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323034543
• ISBN13: 9780323034548
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 7.8"