This article describes the Inuulitsivik midwifery service and education program, an internationally recognized approach to returning childbirth to the remote Hudson coast communities of Nunavik, the Inuit region of Quebec, Canada. The service is seen as a model of community-based education of Aboriginal midwives, integrating both traditional and modern approaches to care and education. Develope...

BACKGROUND This study determined the accuracy of pure tone air conduction (AC) thresholds obtained using a synchronous telemedicine approach without a sound booth in a rural South African community. The global need for increased hearing healthcare currently far exceeds the capacity for delivering these services, especially in developing countries. A tele-audiology approach using a portable diag...

BACKGROUND In 2010 and 2011, Haiti was heavily affected by a large cholera outbreak that spread throughout the country. Although national health structure-based cholera surveillance was rapidly initiated, a substantial number of community cases might have been missed, particularly in remote areas. We conducted a community-based survey in a large rural, mountainous area across four districts of ...

In this paper we present a first approach to evaluate the plant regeneration processes after wildfires. Ten burnt areas were selected and their NDVI variations were monitored throughout the post-fire period. The main objective was to recognise the different regeneration patterns of each burnt area. Several variables (such as the amount of rain, lithology, slope, aspect, etc.) were considered in...

OBJECTIVES To assess the cost effectiveness of community thrombolysis relative to hospital thrombolysis by investigating the extra costs and benefits of a policy of community thrombolysis, then establishing the extra cost per life saved by community thrombolysis. DESIGN Economic evaluation based on the results of the Grampian region early anistreplase trial. SETTING 29 rural general practic...

This summary aims at presenting an overview of the CEC-ESPRIT AVS-RIO (Advanced Video Surveillance Advanced Video Surveillance – Cable Television Based Remote Video surveillance System for Protected sites Monitoring) project. The peculiarity of the project consists both in the video-surveillance application considered (i.e. the monitoring of tourist and naturalistic places), and in the communic...

Assessing and predicting ecosystem responses to global environmental change and its impacts on human well-being are high priority targets for the scientific community. The potential for synergies between remote sensing science and ecology, especially satellite remote sensing and conservation biology, has been highlighted by many in the past. Yet, the two research communities have only recently ...