Necessity of pain management education for cancer patients' families: a literatures

To enhance the quality of life for cancer patients, it is required that choice and useage of appropriate medications for their symptoms, as well as providing education for patients and their family members be provided. The purpose of this article was to examine the effectiveness of cancer pain management education through a literature review. From a search of key medical databases, potential articles regarding cancer pain management were retrieved. From a thorough literatures review, we found six important trends: (1) discordance of cancer patients and their families pain reports; (2) family perception regarding cancer pain; (3) family's concerns about cancer pain management; (4) family member's role in cancer pain management; (5) helpful resources about cancer pain management and (6) educational programs for cancer patient's family. Further research regarding educational programs for family members is required for improving cancer pain management.

Las metas del milenio y el componente bucal de la salud / Dental Health and its goals for the present millennium

El componente bucal de la salud continúa siendo un aspecto fundamental en las condiciones de vida y de bienestar de la población, incorporado en las metas del milenio, requiere consolidar un cuerpo de conocimientos teóricos y metodológicos que permitan abordarlo desde sus dos dimensiones: la social y la biológica, para sustituir las metas basadas en la enfermedad, por metas sustentadas en la salud, desarrollando una práctica odontológica con sentido de totalidad. El propósito de esta investigación bibliográfica, consiste en identificar aspectos conceptuales que contribuyan con el desarrollo operativo de la dimensión social del componente bucal de la salud. Se aborda la discusión acerca de la naturaleza del objeto de estudio y de trabajo del componente bucal del proceso salud - enfermedad, para posteriormente avanzar sobre las consideraciones de orden técnico que aporten en la construcción de propuestas de trabajo para intervenir desde el núcleo familiar, en las causas esenciales que definen el perfil de salud - enfermedad bucal de la población

Dental health has been considered an important aspect in the people’s life conditions and well-being. For the present millennium, the main goal in dental health care is to develop a more holistic dental practice. Then, it is necessary to develop theories and methodologies with which dental health can be approached from its social and biological perspectives to change the dental health care traditional view focused on the treatment of oral diseases to a new one focused on the prevention of them. The purpose of this bibliographic investigation is to identify conceptual aspects, which contribute to the operational development of the dental health social perspective. Furthermore, discussions about the nature of the study objects and work of dental health are held. Finally, technical considerations that allow the design of work proposals with the participation of the family in search of the main causes of their common oral diseases in their community are discussed

On a Report of the Questionaire Regarding Activities of Continuing Medical Education for the Primary Care Physicians in University Hospitals and Clinical Training Hospitals / 医学教育

The aim of this study is to clarify the present situation of activities of continuing medical education (CME) for the primary care physicians to whom the leading hospitals, such as universities and clinical trainee hospitals perform CME in their regions. A questionaire was designed for main 4 parts, as following: 1) On the purpose of CME for the physicians. 2) On the organization (office) managing CME in the hospitals. 3) On the strategies of CME. 4) On the evaluation of CME. Answers to a questionaire were replied from 234 institutions (58.1%). Analyzing the results, we recognized that the leading hospitals actively carried out CME for the primary care physicians in the community. Furthermore, conversion to experiential learning from passive learning and establishment of evaluation methods should be promoted in CME.