Introduction
Medical and Health Sciences is a component of Encyclopedia of Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias.
These volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Medical and Health Sciences and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs
Editor(s) Biography
Osmo Otto Päiviö Hänninen, University of Kuopio, Finland
Mustafa Atalay, University of Kuopio, Finland
B.P. Mansourian, WHO (ret.) Switzerland
A. Wojtczak, Institute for International Medical Education, NY, USA
S.M. Mahfouz, Cairo University, Egypt Members
Harry Majewski, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia
Elaine Elisabetsky, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nina L. Etkin, University of Hawai'I, USA
