Faculty Reflections on International Travel to Reach the Medically Underserved.

One approach to preparing students to engage in culturally diverse health-care settings around the world is to incorporate faculty-led short-term cultural immersion programs in medically underserved nations. This reflective summary analyzes the impact of a faculty-led international health-care trip on students' global health-care experience and needed health-care services in developing countries. A content analysis of the journals of two advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) faculty members was performed to gain perspectives on a trip with undergraduate and graduate nursing students and medical students to a small city in Nicaragua.

Albert Uffenheimer: pediatrician and public health advocate before Nazi rule.

Before World War lI the number of Jewish physicians practicing pediatric medicine in Germany was very high, but soon after the National Socialists came to power the discrimination against Jewish physicians began. One of them, Dr. Albert Uffenheimer, serves as a moving example of this persecution.

Ostomy options for clients with ileostomies.

Quality of life with an external appliance has a significant impact on decision making when considering an incontinent or continent ostomy. A majority of clients with external pouches are content with their pouches and enjoy a good quality of life. For others, not having to deal with an external appliance is reason enough to consider surgery.

Passive smoke exposure in infants and children with respiratory tract diseases.

1. The adverse effect of passive smoke exposure on the respiratory tract, particularly in infants and children, is not an issue of dispute. It was the objective of this study to analyse the extent and the intensity of passive smoke exposure in infants and children with respiratory tract diseases, and compare the information obtained with parents' subjective assessment.

[Genetics of bronchial asthma with reference to allergy].

No uniform opinion exists to date in respect of the transmission of a genetic disposition to asthma bronchiale and atopy. Literature references discuss both monogenic, autosomal dominant or recessive and multifactorial-polygenic heredity. The following contribution discusses the results of an own study on the occurrence of atopy and asthma bronchiale in 153 families.