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Chronic Pain: an Atlas of Investigation and Management

Chronic Pain: an Atlas of Investigation and Management

DA Marcus, DK Cope, A Deodhar, R Payne.

(2009)

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Abstract

Chronic pain affects nearly one in every four adults worldwide, with pain one of the most common symptoms resulting in medical consultation. The increasing focus on chronic pain presents difficulties for the busy practitioner. Patients typically describe a complex pattern of discomfort, disability, and distress, with pain affecting physical, social, and psychological functioning. Clinicians must efficiently condense widely varied symptomatic descriptions into characteristic patterns to permit accurate diagnosis and implement effective treatment. This atlas serves as a useful educational resource for the healthcare provider by providing ready access to characteristic descriptions of common pain syndromes, patient photographs and imaging studies, and evidence-based data summaries from the latest research studies, all presented in easy-to-understand visual formats. This volume offers a unique and broad-based perspective on the subject, drawing on the resources and extensive clinical experience of anesthesiology, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, and rheumatology. Pain assessment and management is comprehensively addressed by including common syndromes from most body regions and inclusion of medication, non-medication, and interventional therapy options for both non-malignant and malignant chronic pain. An entire chapter focused on pain management tools for patients provides charting documentation aids and educational patient handouts to facilitate patients' understanding of their individual pain syndrome and a variety of pain management techniques. Extensive use of figures, algorithms, tables, and boxes, along with the patient educational materials, makes this book an invaluable chronic pain reference as well as a practical resource for daily clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Preface vii
Glossary viii
Part I: Introduction
Small enterprise promotion in a changing policy environment in
Africa: raising issues and attempting answers (A.H.J. Helmsing and
T. Kolstee) 3
Small enterprise and industrialization policies in Africa: some notes
(A.H.J. Helmsing) 24
Analysing the policy framework for small enterprise development
(W.F. Steel) 39
Part II: Structural adjustment and Small Enterprises
Impact of structural adjustment on small-scale enterprises in Ghana
(B. Osei, A. Baah-Nuakoh, K. Tutu and N.K. Sowa) 53
Impact of structural adjustment on the small enterprise sector: a
comparison of the Ghanaian and Tanzanian experiences (J. Dawson) 71
Impact of adjustment policies on the small-scale enterprise sector in
Tanzania (M.S.D. Bagachwa) 91
Industrial sector in Mali: responses to adjustment (J.C. Kessous and
G.Lessard) 114
Structural adjustment and small-scale enterprise development in
Zimbabwe (C. Mumbengegwi) 144
Changing policy regimes for small-scale industries in Latin America.
Lessons for Africa? (F. Uribe-Echevarrfa) 159
Part III: Financial policies and Small Enterprise credit
Sectoral credit allocation policy and credit flow to small enterprises in
Ghana (E. Aryeetey) 187
Financial liberalization under structural adjustment and its
implications for financing small-scale and microenterprises in Nigeria
(T. A. Oyejide) 204
Financing small-scale and microenterprises in Kenya under
conditions of liberalized financial markets (K.M. Mwarania) 214-
Dutch experience with SSE credit: evaluation and policy implications
(R. Teszler) 230
The iqqub and its potential as an indigenous institution financing
small enterprises in Ethiopia (D. Aredo) 245
Small- and microenterprise dynamics and the evolving role of finance
(C. Liedholm) 261
Part TV: Policies for sustaining direct assistance for small
enterprises
Women entrepreneurs, donor promotion and domestic policies
(R.B. Gaidzanwa) 277
Promoting women's enterprises: what Africa can learn from Latin
America (M. Buvinic) 295
Small and microenterprise promotion and technological policy
implications (S. Wangwe) 308
Private-sector organizations and support for small and
microenterprises (J. Levitsky) 318
Notes on contributors 341
Endnotes 343
Bibliography 349