Hi Blake. Message below from the head of the MSF UK medical unit... Thanks!
Pete PS. GHHM is really cool. Read about it here: https://www.msf.org.uk/global-health-and-humanitarian-medicine-ghhm-course Thanks Pete Jay has posted it on the GHHM course so those attending the course have the information (and gave a plug to missing maps too!) Thanks to you and the HOT community Philipp On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > New Year's Greetings! > > This might be of interest to some in the HOT community, although not > directly related to mapping, it is related to one of most common > reasons we do map, public health. > > The latest edition of a leading medical textbook on parasite caused > diseases (like malaria) was published in the last few months and the > authors have made the PDF version of the textbook available as a free, > easy download. > > http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/parasitic-diseases-6th-edition/ > > It is a textbook intended for medical students and is written using > very technical medical terminology so it is not easy to read even for > native English speakers who are not in the medical or scientific > fields. I do a lot of google'ing while I slowly read it. > > This is probably the leading textbook for medical students taking a > parasitic diseases course and it is quite incredible that the authors > have found a way to make it available for free. They are very eager > get this book into the hands of anyone who is interested or can make > use of the information, regardless of ability to pay for the book. > > Regards, > Blake > > PS: Two of the authors also do a semi-weekly podcast about parasitic > diseases, describing in detail an actual case each week and describing > how the diseases present themselves, life cycle of the parasites, > diagnostic techniques, treatments, etc. > > http://www.microbeworld.org/podcasts/this-week-in-parasitism > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot > skype: jblakegirardot > Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ > BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- *Pete Masters* Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org <http://www.missingmaps.org/> *@pedrito1414* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *@theMissingMaps* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* <https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject>
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