Introduction: gender, humanitarian action and crisis response

Context ontology for humanitarian assistance in crisis response

Massive crisis open data is not fully utilized to identify humanitarian needs because most of it is not in a structured format, thus hindering machines to interpret it automatically and process it in a short time into useful information for decision makers. To address these problems, the paper presents a method which merges ontologies and logic rules to represent the humanitarian needs and reco...

Humanitarian response inadequate in Horn of Africa crisis.

On a bed in the fi eld hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an emaciated child, barely more than a stick fi gure, reaches out shakily to its mother’s back for support. But the mother is sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to the child, staring into space. She does not turn around. In the next bed, another refugee, Khadija, holds her 10-month-old son. They are doing slightly ...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?

Wilderness medicine in disasters and humanitarian crisis.

doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006479 In the wake of highly publicized recent disasters in Haiti, Pakistan, and elsewhere, discourse among those concerned with the management of public health emergencies has focused on defining a standard of professionalism for humanitarian and disaster responders.1 Few “prerequisites” exist for the diversity of casual responders, experienced providers, and humanitaria...

An Introduction to Action Research

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 18، تیر 1398، 323-324             مقدمه‌ای بر پژوهش عملیاتی   An Introduction to Action Research     محسن رضائیان[1]   M.Rezaeian   کرت لوین (1947-1890) Kurt Lewin را بنیانگذار پژوهش عملیاتی Action Research می‌دانند. کاربردی که وی از پژوهش عملیاتی در نظر داشت عبارت بود از: پاسخ‌گویی به یک مسأله اجتماعی که با مشارکت فعا...