A Research on Accidents and First Aid – Project InfoH Aid

First Aid in Accidents

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

[Domestic accidents involving women and first aid knowledge].

BACKGROUND Domestic accidents (DA) are preventable and untoward events occurring in a house, pool or garage. Those events constitute a major issue in the context of public health. The objective of this study was to highlight the characteristics of female involvement in DA and their level of knowledge regarding first aid. METHODS Adult female relatives of patients presenting at the university-...

First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...

A New Database on Project Aid and Programme Aid Disbursements and a Re-examination of the Aid-Savings Nexus

This paper is a contribution to the aid effectiveness literature in two important fronts. Firstly, it develops a new database for project aid and programme aid disbursements for 104 developing countries, for the period of 1973-2001. Secondly, using this new dataset and, food aid and technical assistance data from the OECD-DAC database the paper re-examines the savings displacement hypothesis. T...