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Adolescent Medicine.
The goal of this book is to provide pediatricians and primary care clinicians with a pharmacologic expertise in adolescent health issues. The book focuses on general, mental and sexual disorders of the youth and functions as a practical guide for physicians and allied health professionals who work w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Forword; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction
- Adolescent medicine: Pharmacotherapeutics in general, mental, and sexual health; 2 Overview on adolescence; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Terminology; 2.1.2 Demography of adolescent population; 2.1.3 Normal adolescent sexuality stages; 2.1.4 The process of CNS maturation; 2.2 Puberty; 2.3 Sexual behavior; 2.3.1 Homosexuality; 2.3.2 Prevalence; 2.3.3 Caring for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) youth; 2.3.4 The adolescent sex offender; 2.4 Health status of adolescents; 2.4.1 Mental health; 2.4.2 Youth violence; 2.4.3 Mortality.
- 2.4.4 Homicide and suicide2.4.5 Motor vehicle accidents; 2.4.6 Abuse; 2.4.7 Dating violence; 2.4.8 Runaway and homeless youth; 2.5 Caring for adolescents; 2.5.1 Involvement of parents; 2.5.2 Confidentiality; 2.6 Immunizations; 2.7 Counseling; 2.8 Conclusions; 3 Concepts of health care in adolescents in the twenty-first century; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Adolescents: The population; 3.2.1 Financing of the adolescent population; 3.2.2 Subgroups of the adolescent population; 3.2.3 Complexity of the adolescent population; 3.3 Use of modern health-ITs; 3.3.1 Text messaging; 3.3.2 Internet.
- 3.3.3 Multifaceted approaches3.4 Challenges: Use of modern health-ITs; 3.4.1 Accuracy and validity of data and data sources; 3.4.2 Privacy and security responsibilities; 3.4.3 Health literacy and health-IT literacy; 3.4.4 Cost and lack of revenue; 3.5 Opportunities: Use of modern health-ITs; 3.5.1 Provider-adolescent engagement at visit; 3.5.2 Provider-adolescent engagement between visits; 3.5.3 Provider-provider engagement; 3.6 Practicalities: Use of modern health-ITs; 3.7 Conclusions; 4 Principles of pharmacology; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Pharmacokinetics; 4.2.1 Absorption; 4.2.2 Distribution.
- 4.2.3 Metabolism4.2.4 Excretion; 4.2.5 Drug dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring; 4.3 Pharmacodynamics; 4.4 Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics; 4.5 Conclusions; 5 Basic concepts of neurotransmission; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Neurotransmission; 5.2.1 The neuron; 5.2.2 The synapse; 5.2.3 Chemical neurotransmission; 5.3 Allosteric modulation; 5.4 Nonsynaptic (volume) neurotransmission; 5.5 Divergence and covergence; 5.5.1 Agonists and antagonists; 5.6 Major neurotransmitter systems; 5.6.1 Cholinergic system; 5.6.2 Dopaminergic system; 5.6.3 GABAergic system; 5.6.4 Glutamatergic system.
- 5.6.5 Noradrenergic system5.6.6 Serotonergic system; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 Genetics and adolescent medicine; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 How genetic disease occurs; 6.3 Chromosomal inheritance; 6.4 Single gene disorders; 6.5 Multifactorial inheritance and complex traits; 6.6 Other etiologies; 6.6.1 UPD; 6.6.2 Imprinting; 6.6.3 Mitochondrial disorders; 6.6.4 Syndromes associated with SCD as an example; 6.6.5 Syndromes associated with the structurally normal heart; 6.6.6 Syndromes associated with the structural heart disease; 6.6.7 Factors to be considered regarding the syndromes associated with SCD.