Hospital Extension Services
Contents: Preface. 1. Extension and Outreach Services in Health Care. 2. Non-Communicable, Lifestyle and Lifetime Diseases: Role of Hospitals. 3. Immunization in Hospitals: Extension Services Essential. 4. Overview of Blindness and Ophthalmic Services. 5. Hepatitis Clinic in a Hospital. 6. Specialized Services of Radiotherapy and Oncology in a Hospital. 7. Management of Mid-Life Clinic for Women. 8. Rehabilitation Centre: Essential in Every Hospital. 9. Physiotherapy in a Hospital: Immense Scope. 10. Hospital Library Services: Great Resource. Index.
The extension services are the hospital services provided by the hospitals at the door steps of the beneficiaries. China’s concept of barefoot doctors or India’s National rural health mission encompassing immunization, nutrition services and implementation or reproductive and child health services and national health programmes are the living examples of extension services of hospital duties.
Holding of free eye camps and medical camps, family planning operation camps, de-addiction services, services to homeless and those in jails, mentally ill patients, administration of vaccines, mobile trauma and critical care teams, specialized clinics of physiotherapy/imaging, advanced services in various branches of medicine and clinics thereof, prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases, HIV/sexually transmitted diseases and other infections, supplements for malnutrition containment viz. vitamin and iron deficiency, iodine deficiency diseases, delivery huts for safe and hygienic childbirth, school health programmes, etc are only some of the examples of ever and the community at large. It also entails services like sending nurses or care-givers for the chronically ill at home or services like hospice for the terminally ill. Often it may mean providing medical services or wellness services at the door steps of the patient/person.
This book on Hospital Extension Services would make an important contribution to the knowledge and existing literature on this expanding field, besides, this would help the academicians, national health officials, public health administrations, medical research workers and the policy-makers and planners in the proper understanding of health and hospital care delivery system in the context of extension services. (Jacket)
