Knowledge, attitudes and practice about hepatitis B infection among medical students
Introduction. Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. WHO estimates that more than 2 billion persons have been infected with HBV (including 350 million chronically infected). The aim of this study was to investigate the students’...
By Bojan Joksimović, Slavenka Janković, Biljana Mijović
Allergies: from stress to psychosomatic diseases
Holistic approach to the nature of human beings shows the view of the man as a unique and indivisible whole and not as a collection of organs that are not interconnected. This means the integrity of the biological, psychological and social nature of the man and that just means the psychosomatic approach to the disease. More and more studies indicat...
By Snežana Medenica, Milan Stojaković, Bogdan Zrnić, Goran Vasić, Verica Prodanović, Helena Marić
Psoriasis as a psychodermatology disease
Skin lesions have a strong influence on the mental health. Literature indicates the complex interrelationships between psychosocial factors and psoriasis, which substantially reduce the quality of life of these patients. These interrelationships are based on numerous interactions that exist between the immune, nervous and endocrine systems and they...
By Bogdan Zrnić, Snežana Medenica, Aleksandra Salamadić, Zoran Pantić, Siniša Ristić