STI for SDGs: Perspectives from Medical Humanitarian Assistance

Determining medical staffing requirements for humanitarian assistance missions.

OBJECTIVE The primary mission of hospital ships is to provide acute medical and surgical services to U.S. forces during military operations. Hospital ships also provide a hospital asset in support of disaster relief and humanitarian assistance (HA) operations. HA missions afford medical care to populations with vastly different sets of medical conditions from combat casualty care, which affects...

Stress and health during medical humanitarian assistance missions.

The present research examined stress and health among service members deployed on a medical humanitarian assistance mission to Kazakstan. Team members were surveyed before and during their deployment. Team members underestimated how much stress they would experience in terms of isolation and inability to help the local population. Team members also used less adaptive coping mechanisms than anti...

A blueprint for professionalizing humanitarian assistance.

International humanitarian response to crises employs 210,000 people and accounts for nearly $15 billion in spending globally each year. Most action is carried out by not-for-profit organizations working with United Nations (UN) agencies, military organizations, and commercial entities. UN agencies employ many technical experts, often retaining them for five or more years. As yet there is no in...

Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance.

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Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?