Etiology in human and animal ethnomedicine

It can be shown that considerable common ground exists between indigenous or traditional theories of contagious disease in Africa, and modern medicine, whether human or veterinary. Yet this is not recognized because of the generally low regard in which the medically trained – whether African or expatriate – hold African traditional medicine. This attitude seems to result from the assumption that African health beliefs are based on witchcraft and related supernatural thinking. I argue that this may not be so in the important domain of diseases biomedically classified as contagious; such diseases tend to be understood naturalistically. An accurate understanding of how Africans traditionally interpret contagious diseases of humans and livestock is the foundation for the design and implementation of more effective health programs.     

农村居民医疗状况变迁研究——以安徽省来安县ZS乡为例

以社会变迁理论为支撑点,采用深度访谈的方法,对安徽省来安县ZS乡农村居民的就医现况及影响因素进行了描述分析,论述了该现状对新型农村合作医疗制度产生的不利影响。     

欠发达地区农村基本医疗保障的现状与对策——以德州市农村医疗保障的发展为例

在对欠发达地区农村医疗保障的现状和问题分析的基础上提出政策建议,对农村医疗保障制度的完善有指导意义。     

Integrated delivery of primary health care for humans and animals

Partially because of the high cost of developing and maintaining cold chains, systems needed to keep heat-labile vaccines under adequate refrigeration from their points of manufacture to their administration in the field, the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Committee on Zoonoses (i.e., the approximately four fifths of all described human infections that people share with other vertebrate animals) recommended in 1982 operation of common cold chains by health and veterinary services in rural areas. Following this recommendation, a 1984 pilot level initiative in medical-veterinary intersectoral cooperation should be regarded as a practical way to deliver human primary health care to currently neglected African pastoralists, and as a potential core program for development efforts overall within arid and semiarid areas of the African continent.     

One medicine: The dynamic relationship between animal and human medicine in history and at present

The relation and collaboration of human and animal medicine had its ups and downs throughout history. The interaction between these two disciplines has been especially fruitful in the broad areas of patho-physiology and of epidemiology. An exploration of the interaction between the two disciplines, using historical and contemporary examples in comparative medicine, zoonoses, zooprophylaxis, and human-animal bond, reveals that a better understanding of animal and human disease, as well as societal changes such as interest in non-conventional medicine, are leading to a broader concept of one medicine that includes animal and human medicine as well as social and other sciences.     

我国畜牧动物医学类期刊现状与发展对策研究

通过对建国以来我国畜牧动物医学类科技期刊发展情况的回顾和分析,指出了该行业科技期刊的发展存在的问题,探讨了此类行业期刊的发展策略。     

广西农村医疗救助发展现状与政策选择

对当前广西农村医疗救助中存在的问题进行了分析,结果表明:农村医疗救助存在对象界定不规范、救助标准偏低、救助程序繁琐、资金使用不合理等问题。在此基础上,研究了农村医疗救助的发展思路,即完善制度设计、健全筹资体系、提高基金监管有效性、加大舆论宣传和引导力度。