In the anti-human trafficking movement, multi-disciplinary teams have emerged as a best practice for collaborating and coordinating efforts in combating human trafficking. Many are comprised of federal, state local partners representing law enforcement, prosecutors service providers. The concept sustaining is relatively new area discussion movement. This paper explores Greater New Orleans Human...

Recognition of the urgent need to improve the provision of long-term care, as well as the known variations in standards of nursing home care around the world, prompted the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology (IAGG), in association with the World Health Organization (WHO), to form a task force. This task force was charged with the identification of the key concerns, research ...

This meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) was convened at The Carter Center from 9:00am to 4:00pm on October 18, 2002. The Task Force reviewed the status of global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, as well as the control of African trypanosomiasis. The names of members of the Task Force or their representatives who participated in the meeting, the pre...

In February 2013, C edric Annweiler invited a number of international experts to form a task force, and they met in Boston in July 2013 to evaluate the evidence regarding the role of vitamin D in the mental health of older adults. The discussions resulted in the task force concluding that vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia in older adults [1]. As noted by t...

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has initiated a near-continuous review of cardiopulmonary resuscitation science that replaces the previous 5-year cyclic batch-and-queue approach process. This is the first of an annual series of International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations summary articles t...

Obesity, simply defined, is the state of being excessively overweight. It afflicts a significant and possiblygrowing proportion of people in developed as well as developing societies. It has emerged as the most prevalentserious public health problem of the new millennium. Obesity may not be regarded simply as a cosmetic problem affecting certain individuals, but a crisis that threatens ...