Coding protection: ‘cyber humanitarian interventions’ for preventing mass atrocities

Mass media interventions for preventing smoking in young people.

BACKGROUND Mass media interventions can be used as a way of delivering preventive health messages. They have the potential to reach and modify the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of a large proportion of the community. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of mass media interventions on preventing smoking in young people, and whether it can reduce smoking uptake among youth (under 25 years), im...

Why Humanitarian Interventions

Why do interstate interventions, even when carried out with the best of intentions, so often fail to contain conflicts and support a peaceful settlement? We argue that the extent of local participation exerts a strong effect on the prospects for successful peace-building and reconstruction efforts in the wake of humanitarian interventions. Even though the population in target countries may symp...

Cyber-Infrastructure Protection Policy:

Infrastructure challenges continue to drive considerable public policy debate. The nation’s economy relies very heavily on the combined provision of three critical infrastructures: energy, banking and finance, and information technology (IT). These three critical infrastructures are interconnected, interdependent and cross-cutting essential services to the whole economy. Indeed, the “incapacity...

Cyber Physical Security for Power Grid Protection

Nursing interventions for preventing alcohol-related harm.

Harrington-Dobinson and Blows recently provided a three-part series of articles on alcohol, its consequences for health and wellbeing, and the role of the nurse. Their third article outlined the health education and health promotion role of the nurse. They outlined basic principles for nursing practice in relation to the patient with alcohol dependence in the acute general hospital. The authors...