International organizations for disaster medicine: structure, objectives, publications

The international decade for natural disaster reduction: background and objectives.

European survey on training objectives in disaster medicine.

OBJECTIVES As part of the I SEE (Interactive Simulation Exercise for Emergencies) project, financially supported by the Leonardo da Vinci Programme 2000-2006 of the European Commission, a study was planned to assess the type of disaster and to establish the tasks to be included in an emergency exercise to be developed, according to the possible target groups, physicians, nurses, ambulance perso...

International collaboration in disaster medicine--it is time for the "big step" in disaster preparedness.

In the last few decades, we have witnessed global disasters that rendered national medical systems helpless. A few examples are the tsunami in southeast Asia, and earthquakes in Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, and India. 1–8 A large-scale disaster occurs when a nation cannot cope with the tragedy by itself and needs help from other nations. This is due to a lack of resources in face of the s...

International Alliance of Patients' Organizations perspectives on person-centered medicine

Non-communicable diseases or chronic conditions, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, are affecting the health and quality of life of an increasing number of patients around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2005 they caused an estimated 35 million deaths representing 60% of all deaths globally with 80% of deaths due to non-communicable diseases occurring i...

International Labour Organisation Act/emp Publications Industrial Relations and Globalization: Challenges for Employers and Their Organizations

1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR-a definition (b) IR and HRM (c) Liberalization, globalization and IR (i) Overview (ii) The relevance of globalization to industrial relations-a summary (iii) The role of multinational corporations (MNC's) (iv) Information technology and IR (v) The impact of other trends (d) The changing nature of IR-a...