The impact on health and risk factors of the diarrhoea epidemics in the 1998 Bangladesh floods.

Abstract

The 1998 flood in Bangladesh ravaged approximately 60% of the land and affected over 30 million people. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the flood on the health of the communities affected and to explore factors associated with episodes of diarrhoea.

Understanding the "worried well".

The burden of giving a diagnosis to patients who have no discernible clinical findings is often frustrating and anxiety provoking for the primary care clinician. This frustration is magnified when that patient returns on a frequent basis. These patients have been called the worried well, but there is no good CPT code for this diagnosis. Smith et al (1) have taken a novel approach to evaluating patients who are frequent users of primary care services.

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