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Mental health and Integration

Details: Published: Tuesday, 25 June 2019 10:57; Written by Nadia - Secretary

Provision for supporting people with mental illness: A comparison of 30 european countries

The identity of the person with dementia

Details: Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:35; Written by Flavia Caretta

Nearly 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia. According to current forecasts, by the year 2050,

Fighting the loneliness epidemic

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:06; Written by Sarah Mundell

The former U.S. surgeon general and others encourage ways to address the risks of social isolation. Moments of tragedy are often times

Medical Professionalism: a GP’s Perspective

Details: Published: Friday, 23 February 2018 16:06; Written by MABEL AGHADIUNHO

“A really good liver” I remember when I was a medical student the excitement of going round the wards with a keen doctor who would take us to feel a “really good spleen” or listen to an “interesting cardiac murmur”. Like my fellow students in our new, pristine white coats, I was very excited. However, something in me rebelled and a little voice said, “This isn’t quite right”. It was not that we did not greet the patient, ask permission to examine and do all that medical etiquette and politeness required. I felt uneasy and could not articulate why.

Evolution of the hospital and commitments to be assumed

Details: Published: Monday, 12 February 2018 16:13; Written by YVONNE KREMMER

Evolution of medicine and of the hospital. Through the centuries, the European hospital has gone through a real metamorphosis.
Starting from the “Hospitalis Domus”, the house where guests were received during the first centuries of our era, the hospital was primarily the place where Christian charity was exercised through all ages.

The Therapy for Chronic Pain: Painmedicine

Details: Published: Wednesday, 07 February 2018 15:15; Written by GABRIELE M.

I am specialised in anaesthesia and I have other specialisations in pain therapy, acupuncture and palliative medicine. I work with 5 colleagues in a specialised medical surgery. (In Germany the national health system has two branches: hospitals and medical clinics/surgeries). Our clinic for pain therapy and palliative medicine, is the biggest medical surgery for the therapy of chronic pain in Germany.

What is Professionalism to me? How do I practice it?

Details: Published: Monday, 05 February 2018 15:34; Written by AINO MIRJAM INKERI KELO

Right from the beginning of my professional career, it was very clear for me that the patient had to occupy centre stage. As I practised medicine, I understood that this preference had to be translated into practical choices, which were sometimes small but nonetheless fundamental.

From interrelationship to reciprocity: its implications in the medical sphere

Details: Published: Sunday, 04 February 2018 17:30; Written by ANNA FRATTA

We have reflected on the importance of communication and the art of interrelating in Medicine. My task now is to talk about the significance and value of reciprocity.
It is our conviction that knowing how to communicate and to enter into a relationship with another – whether this person is a colleague, a health worker, a patient or his/her relatives – requires a step farther: to arrive at a reciprocal relationship.

International Projects: Achievements, Preliminary Results, New Horizons

Details: Published: Friday, 02 February 2018 17:27; Written by ANTONIA TESTA, DIRK TIMMERMAN and LIL VALENTIN

The preoperative diagnosis of ovarian masses is essential to provide an appropriate clinical treatment. The introduction of transvaginal ultrasonography has given us the opportunity to obtain preoperative diagnostic parameters which offer extraordinary diagnostic accuracy.

A new cultural model for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. A project in Africa, based on UNAIDS recommendations

Details: Published: Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:15; Written by MARCEL MBULA

The cultural model - HIV/AIDS is an important public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 63 % of adults and children who are infected by HIV or suffering from AIDS in the world are living. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2.5 million people are infected by HIV or are suffering from AIDS. The seroprevalence of HIV infection is 4.3 %.

Bukas Palad: Community Healthcare in Manila

Details: Published: Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:18; Written by IMELDA PALOMINO

Bukas Palad Foundation Inc., is a non-stock, non-profit and non-government organization. It is established in 1983, to respond to social and health problems of poorest people in Philippines.

A Journey in Reciprocity: from the Clinica Sorriso (in Igarassu, Brazil) to the Clinic dor Adopted and Immigrant Children

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:25; Written by GIUSEPPINA VENERUSO

The Clinica Sorriso (translated as Smile Clinic) was built in 1993 in the town of Igarassu in northeastern Brazil. It is the result of a solidarity based which was promoted in Italy when I returned from my first trip to Brazil. The clinic was opened in order to meet the health needs of the pupils of Santa Maria School, an activity which was started in 1969 in the city of Santa Maria where the school is located.

Cervical Cancer Management: development of a partnership model based on ethnographic approach between countries with different healthcare standards

Details: Published: Monday, 22 January 2018 16:54; Written by Laura Falchi

Cervical carcinoma is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, but especially in developing countries, where it is the most frequent cause of mortality 1.
The causes of cervical cancer can be attributed to poverty, lifestyle, inaccurate or lack of information that the population has regarding risk factors. There is also a lack of functional medical consultation services and limited access to health care centers.

Spirituality in health and illness

Details: Published: Friday, 29 December 2017 16:29; Written by Mabel Aghadiuno

Spirituality in health and illness `a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity` (World Health Organisation, WHO) relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living. (Dorlands Medical Dictionary)

God is close to those who suffer

Details: Published: Wednesday, 20 December 2017 10:03; Written by Chiara Lubich

From a conference call by the Founder of the Focolare Movement at Christmas 1986 in which Chiara Lubich encouraged everyone to remember people who were on their own, ill, or suffering spiritually and help them offer their suffering as a precious gift to the Child born in Bethlehem.