INTRODUCTION Medical information systems during past military deployments had limited injury surveillance capability as data were not accessible during deployments and did not capture causes of injury. This paper describes nonbattle injury (NBI) results from an ongoing surveillance program that identifies injury occurrences and causes during deployments for Operations Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and E...

background: evaluating the malaria status of the economic cooperation organization (eco) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd millennium development goals (mdgs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. methods: by 2009, we reviewed the mdgs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. the main stakeholders...

It is important to understand barriers Physical Activity (PA), particularly for under researched populations. While a lack of PA has been acknowledged as an issue those living in Afghanistan, there have no published studies exploring within this population. Therefore, the purpose study was explore Afghans and how these differ depending on where they reside: UK or Afghanistan. 930 participants, ...

Disease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) are the leading causes of morbidity during wars and military operations. However, adequate medical data were never before available to service public health centers to conduct DNBI surveillance during deployments. This article describes the process, results and lessons learned from centralized DNBI surveillance by the US Army Center for Health Promotion and P...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with client perceptions of the quality of primary care services in Afghanistan. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of outpatient health facilities, health workers, patients and caretakers. SETTING Primary health care facilities in every province of Afghanistan. Main outcome measure Numerical scale of client perceptions of service quality. RESULTS Client...

As instability from Afghanistan increasingly escalates into Pakistan, can improved India-China relations be a primer for security in the region? Acts of terrorism and destabilisation are now daily occurrences in Pakistan, against the country‟s population, army, police and intelligence services. Given Pakistan‟s political-military basis this appears to be a growing existential threat not only to...

The Afghanistan population living far from rivers relies upon groundwater delivered from karezes (sub-horizontal tunnels). Karezes exploit unconfined groundwater in alluvial fans recharged largely by snowmelt from the Hindu Kush, the central mountain range of the country. Since the multi-year drought that began in 1998, many karezes have stopped flowing. This study characterizes the hydraulics ...

Between 1981 and 1989, a total of 7683 cases of Plasmodium vivax [corrected] malaria were imported into the USSR from Afghanistan, mainly by demobilized military personnel. For 23.8% of these cases the clinical manifestations appeared within a month of returning to the USSR, for 22.5% after 1-3 months, for 20% after 4-6 months, for 2% after > 1 year, and for 0.6% after > 2 years. For 13 patient...

OBJECTIVE Mental disorders are common in military organizations, and these frequently lead to functional impairments that can interfere with duties and lead to costly attrition. In Canada, the military mental health system has received heavy investment to improve occupational outcomes. We investigated military occupational outcomes of diagnosed mental disorders in a cohort of 30,513 personnel w...

This study aims to analyze the dynamics of relations between Indonesia and Afghanistan during reign Joko Widodo before after Afghan coup by transnational Islamic movement Taliban. Even though Taliban is back in power Afghanistan, government are still going well. research a qualitative descriptive using concept multitrack diplomacy answer problem this research. The method collect data literature...