Au sahel, le déséquilibre entre les besoins des populations et la capacité de production écosystèmes entrainent un amenuisement ressources forestières consécutif à une baisse du niveau vie populations. Toutefois, connaissance résilience communautés comme aires protégées permettra d’atténuer impacts. Cette étude vise évaluer phytodiversité unités d’occupations forêt classée Gorou Bassounga appré...

In this short intervention, I ask, What is at stake, politically and conceptually, in understanding militarism not as stable unfolding similarly across geographies, but deeply contingent on historical contextual specificities? How might we then unpack the question of home becoming a catalyst militarism? constitutes under saturated state control occupation where neither subtle nor benign enforce...

This article was acceptedfor publication August 29, 1996 Objective. Numerous studies in the occupational therapy literature have investigated the e./ficts ofadded-purpose (multidimensional, goal-oriented) occupation on perftr­ mance. Motor learning research has demonstrated that ftctors that enhance perftrmance measures do not neces­ sarily enhance motor learning. This study examined the e./fic...

May/June 2002, Volume 56, Number 3 The events of September 11, 2001, have changed the world forever (Schuster et al., 2001). As occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, we struggle to respond to both the tangible and intangible consequences of these events for ourselves, our clients, our families, our profession, and our society. I am sure that many of you have been confront...

Lifetime job histories from a population-based, case-control study of gliomas diagnosed among adults in the San Francisco Bay area between August 1991 and April 1994 were evaluated to assess occupational risk factors. Occupational data for 476 cases and 462 controls were analyzed, with adjustment for age, gender, education, and race. Imprecise increased risks were observed for physicians and su...

In the early 1990s, occupational therapists were challenged to refocus their evaluation processes. Specifically, they were urged to focus on their clients’ abilities to do what they want and need to do and to carry out meaningful occupation rather than evaluating the components underlying occupational performance problems (Fisher, 1992a, 1994a; Law et al., 1994; Mathiowetz, 1993; Trombly, 1993)...

Introduction Transformation Through Occupation (TTO) is a model in its conceptual stage, therefore referred to as a prototype. The prototype originates in South Africa and was formulated by a team of occupational therapy lecturers who wanted to develop a conceptual framework that guided occupational therapy practice within a transforming society. With guidance from the Transformation Through Oc...

C hronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is now the fourth leading cause of death worldwide and, by all reasonable projections, its incidence will increase. The worldwide burden of COPD morbidity and mortality is already large, and will become staggering in this century. In this issue of the journal, Meldrum et al describe the impact of COPD on the UK. In their poignant review, they point ...