Two cases of accidental hanging that occurred at school in comparable circumstances in two three-year-olds are reported. The opposite outcomes in these two cases together with data from a review of the literature highlight the importance of first aid training to give victims of such injuries the best chance of survival.

This paper opens by expressing disappointment in the disparities between published estimations of the effectiveness of foreign aid to developing countries and effectiveness data which arise from the application of complex econometric methods. The new dilemmas for aid policy include the fact that aid increasingly devoted to human development at the expense of productive activity is unlikely to ...

Against the backdrop of Soviet Union’s 1970s reengagement with Africa through Indian Ocean, this article investigates overlapping extensions aid and technical assistance to island nation Mauritius, focusing primarily on unprecedented 1972 infrastructural development offer by People’s Republic China. By analysing minutes Sino-Mauritian Agreement Economic Technical Cooperation’s negotiations as f...

Background: All parents of a child know that keeping their child at home is difficult enough, but when the child goes to school, there are new challenges and very dangerous situation. Preparing children for such situations is one of the tasks of the education system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of operational first aid training course in preschool children. Method...

An inquiry into the modern scientific sources and global Russian trends in development of human life safety issues pointed to importance premedical first aid knowledge skills. This study considered organization educational extracurricular processes graduate department a technical university aimed at formation skills students. It examined possibilities divisions features how educational, extracu...