Coordinated and effective interventions are critical for relief efforts to be successful in addressing the health needs of children in situations of armed conflict, population displacement, and/or food insecurity. We reviewed published literature and surveyed international relief organizations engaged in child health activities in complex emergencies. Our aim was to identify research needs and ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Relief In article number 2214693, Yunjiao Zhang and co-workers demonstrate 2D cobalt oxyhydroxide nanosheets (Co NSs) with excellent multienzyme-like activity as potential inhibitors of NLRP3 inflammasome pyroptosis. Owing to the robust reactive oxygen species scavenging oligomerization inhibiting ability, Co NSs block assembly activation inflammasome, thereby exhibit...

This work presents a concept for combining paper based and electronic objects in order to improve information access in mass casualty incidents. We propose to improve the relief workers’ documentation task by combining PBPTs (paper based patient tags) with RBPTs (RFID based patient tags). This combination, which we call RFID Enhanced Patient Tags (REPTs), is capable of combining advantages from...

0471 The tsunami that marked a solemn end to 2004 left behind unprecedented devastation. The world was shocked at the increasing casualty fi gures and the real-time images of the disaster brought by the news media. These included clips and photographs of dead bodies, grieving relatives, and suffering patients admitted to makeshift emergency wards. The photographs did help in organizing a quick ...

BACKGROUND Program effectiveness is influenced by the degree and quality of implementation, thus requiring careful examination of delivery processes and how the program is or is not being implemented as intended. Implementation fidelity is defined by adherence to intervention design, exposure or dose, quality of delivery, and participant responsiveness. As part of the process evaluation (PE) of...

This study was undertaken to assess the socio-economic impact of producing export oriented agricultural crops on the livelihoods of the farmers, in eastern Ethiopia. A random sample of 305 farmers was studied. Comparisons were made between producers and non-producers using the Ztest and regression analysis. It was found that producers of export oriented crops are better off than the non-produce...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the predictive relationships between employee health risk factors (HRFs) and workers' compensation (WC) claim occurrence and costs. METHODS Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to estimate the predictive association between HRFs and claim occurrence and cost among a cohort of 16 926 employees from 314 large, medium an...

In response to Hurricane Katrina, CDC and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (LDHH) implemented active surveillance on September 9, 2005, to monitor for injuries and illnesses at functioning hospitals and other acute-care facilities in the greater New Orleans area (Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, and St. Tammany parishes). On September 20, the system was...

Background Morita therapy, as a treatment for mental illness, aims to enable patients accept their bad emotions so that they can effectively self-direct and regulate themselves, no longer be controlled by emotions, ultimately eliminate illness. Positive thinking refers the individual’s purposeful, non-judgmental attention here now. It emphasizes an attitude of acceptance observe inner experienc...