Publications by authors named "Sam Mayer"
Climate change, malaria and neglected tropical diseases: a scoping review.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how climate change impacts malaria and other tropical diseases over the past 13 years.
- Researchers found that many studies focus on malaria and dengue, but less on some other important diseases.
- There’s still a lot we don’t know about how climate change will affect these diseases, so we need better research to figure it out.
Background: Today's uncertain HIV funding landscape threatens to slow progress towards treatment goals. Understanding the costs of antiretroviral therapy (ART) will be essential for governments to make informed policy decisions about the pace of scale-up under the 2013 WHO HIV Treatment Guidelines, which increase the number of people eligible for treatment from 17.6 million to 28.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic care education in medical school: a focus on functional health and quality of life.
Am J Phys Med Rehabil
October 2009
The healthcare system is faced with a rapidly increasing number of individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities. The need for a chronic care model of health care with interdisciplinary treatment involving the patient and family with a focus on functional health is recognized but not fully established in the medical community. The education of medical students in a chronic care model is essential so that physicians in all specialties may provide effective and efficient care to their patients.
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