HEALTH CARE IN TRANSITION: DIR ...
This book should be read by all who are seriously interested in the problems of health care in the 1970s. Mrs. Somers covers a highly complex topic ...
Hurricanes and child health: l ...
A hurricane is a large rotating storm with a central area of very low pressure and strong winds greater than 74 mph (118 km/h). 1 The hurricane is ...
Impact of a Comprehensive Heart ...
Objectives. To assess the impact of a comprehensive heart failure management program, functional status, hospital readmission rate and estimated hos ...
Improving Effective Surgical De ...
The humanitarian response to major disasters is often marred by duplication and fragmentation, resulting in insufficient resources and services rea ...
Initial Response of Healthcare ...
Study Summary—Of 323 healthcare epidemiology professionals surveyed during the H1N1 crisis, 30.7% reported shortages of antiviral medication and 39.0 ...
Instability, investment, disast ...
This article examines whether natural disasters affect fertility—a topic little explored but of policy importance given relevance to policies regardi ...
Designing All-Hazards Incident ...
In this presentation, current emergency response practice in Japan will be reviewed in comparison with Incident Command System, which has been the de ...
Loss of Resources and Hurricane ...
Matthew Ehrlich, M.P.H.,1 Emily Harville, Ph.D.,1 Xu Xiong, M.D., Dr.PH.,1 Pierre Buekens, M.D., Dr.PH.,1 Gabriella Pridjian, M.D.,2 and Karen Elkind ...
Medical student disaster medici ...
Background Disaster medicine education is an enormous challenge, but indispensable for disaster preparedness. Aims We aimed to develop and implement ...
Postreduction Management of Int ...
Objective. To evaluate the current management of patients with intussusception who have undergone successful reduction by contrast enema in a tertia ...
Mental Health Problems among Ch ...
Background: On May 12, 2008, a destructive earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale struck Sichuan Province, southwest China. Beichuan County ...
Priority setting in a hospital ...
Objective: To describe priority setting for admissions in a hospital critical care unit and to evaluate it using the ethical framework of “accountab ...
Total quality management (TQM) ...
Hospitals are turning to total quality management (TQM) to lower costs of providing care. A hospital library in a TQM environment needs to embrace c ...
Need for continual education ab ...
Background: Disaster Medicine training is not included in medical education curriculum in China, even though the country has suffered various disaste ...
The Compassion Fatigue Scale: I ...
Objective—The present study has two goals: to assess the difference between secondary trauma and job burnout and to examine the utility of secondary ...
NPY Moderates the Relation betw ...
Background—Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been found to be anxiolytic in animals and humans. A recent study found NPY expression to be inversely correlated ...
Oral and Enteral Resuscitation ...
In the aftermath of a mass disaster, standard care methods for treatment of burn injury will often not be available for all victims. A method of flui ...
Post clubfoot release skin necr ...
Complications of pedal wounds closed primarily after release of neglected cases of club foot are well known in literature. We treated a 12-year-old b ...
Pre-hospital management of pati ...
The physiological variables of oxygen saturation, blood pressure and pulse rate were compared in the pre-hospital phase and on arrival at hospital i ...
Psychological Distress among Ad ...
A devastating earthquake occurred on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan, China. This study investigated the prevalence and factors in association with psycholog ...
Public Health-Specific National ...
Local health departments (LHDs) are at the hub of the public health emergency preparedness system. Since the 2003 issuance of Homeland Security Pres ...
Comparative hospital databases: ...
Objectives-To establish an accurate and reliable comparative database of discharge abstracts and to appraise its value for assessments of quality o ...
Race, socioeconomic status, and ...
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on the 29th of August 2005 and displaced virtually the entire population of the city. Soon after, observers pred ...
Deseeatrcehrminants of psycholo ...
Background: The goal of this study was to collect information to inform the design of a mental health response following the massive December 2004 ea ...
IRmeseaprcah ct of resilience e ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate a resilience-enhancing program for youth (mean age = 13.32 years) from Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Russ ...