BACKGROUND School violence in early adolescence, whose frequency and status have recently changed significantly. OBJECTIVE This study attempts to detect the cyber bullying inclination of youth in early adolescence when aggressiveness reaches its peak, to identify school violence, and to develop a school violence prevention program. Method: This study was a survey research, investigating parti...

INTRODUCTION The ongoing threat of a terrorist attack places public agencies under increasing pressure to ensure readiness in the event of a disaster. Yet, little published information exists regarding the current state of readiness, which would allow local and regional organizations to develop disaster preparedness plans that would function seamlessly across service areas. The objective of thi...

post disaster reconstruction in the destructed zones entails the social aspects in addition to the physical and urban aspects, because of the presence of affected people in the very location. the presented research aims to assess the social aspects of the post disaster conditions in the course of reconstruction, which take into consideration the related social factors in the affected community....

Social experimentation with random assignment is unique to the United States as an approach to public policy research. As far as I can determine, no other Western countries have conducted social experiments with a randomly assigned group. In the United States, we have now had sufficient experience with this form of policy research that it is appropriate to take a hard look at its conduct and it...

Cloud storage could be a storage of information on-line in cloud that is accessible from multiple and connected resources. Cloud storage will offer smart accessibility and reliability, sturdy protection, disaster recovery, and lowest price. Cloud storage having vital practicality i.e. securely, with efficiency, flexibly sharing information with others. New public–key cryptography that is named ...

Project Fleur-de-Lis (PFDL) was established to provide a tiered approach to triage and treat children experiencing trauma symptoms after Hurricane Katrina. PFDL provides school screening in schools in New Orleans and three tiers of evidence-based treatment (EBT) to disaster-exposed children utilizing a public health approach to meet the various needs of students referred to the program, some st...

BACKGROUND Members of the established public health systems and medical community must understand that, in medical surge events, members of the dental profession and other non-traditional disaster health care personnel are an additional source of assistance in response activities. METHODS The authors relied on hands-on experience, expert consultations, literature reviews and Web searches to i...

Mental health is an important aspect of public health after a disaster. This article describes what is known and what remains to be learned regarding the mental health impact of the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Public health surveillance efforts in Haiti and the United States in the first 2 months after the earthquake are described. Challenges in clinical assessment and public health ...

Special cartographic outputs are required by the disaster management. Such 2D, 3D and/or 4D territory models have to present area features important for: 1. understanding the accident wider territory layout, 2. personal orientation in the territory (landscape landmarks), 3. direct disaster location surroundings imagination, 4. assessment of area features important (and sensitive) for disaster b...

BACKGROUND As part of efforts to implement the human resources capacity building component of the African Regional Strategy on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) for the health sector, the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization, in collaboration with selected African public health training institutions, followed a multistage process to develop core competencies and curricula for t...