Reproductive health care for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is recognised by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations and the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium as a neglected area in humanitarian relief operations. To identify barriers to agencies providing reproductive health care to IDPs, and their strategies for overcoming these barri...

While it is possible that the Governor's health investigation may reveal serious threats, this study is far too limited to be any real help in decision making. A definitive study with a control group population that is unexposed to the toxins in Stericycle's emissions is impossible to create because all humans harbor these toxins in their bodies. Any attempt at a comprehensive health study spec...

1 Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes expressing the tissue resident memory marker 1 CD103 are associated with increased survival in high-grade serous ovarian cancer. 2 3 John R. Webb, Katy Milne, Peter Watson, Ronald J. deLeeuw 4 and Brad H. Nelson d 5 6 7 8 9 Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Victoria, 10 Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uni...

Today‟s complex military endeavours require collaborative planning in a multi-agency context. Collaborative games are useful tools for experimenting with such planning. The “ISLAND MISSION” game, previously presented at SimTecT 2007 as a board game, is one such tool. “ISLAND MISSION” is based on a peace enforcement/humanitarian relief scenario, and players take the role of representatives of Ar...

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Abstract How do civilian protection payments to militias affect the dynamics of communal conflict? Building on literature conflict, agency, rebel taxation, and criminal extortion, I argue that payment is not a sustainable self-protection strategy. Civilian refers an arrangement whereby communities pay levies for against attacks, often buying temporary safety. Drawing fieldwork in Nigeria’s conf...

The task of evaluating psychiatric disability poses several ethics-related and practical challenges for psychiatrists, especially when they are responding to a request from a third party for a disability evaluation on their own patient. This study sought to evaluate the differences in how forensic and nonforensic psychiatrists approach and view evaluations for Social Security disability benefit...