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Causes of long wait time in health consultation services and strategies to reduce them: an observational study in rural Haiti

The Lancet Global Health, 2020
Background: WHO data show that wait times for clinic patients globally vary between 30 min and 2 h, but at Saint Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, wait times range between 3 h and 8 h.
Jude Altema, MD, Kenide Bien-Aime, RN, Marie Carine Roger, RN, Wendell Blaise, MD   +3 more
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Reemergence of cholera in Haiti

New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Summary Cholera was absent from Haiti until an inadvertent introduction by United Nations security forces in October 2010. The ensuing epidemic sickened 820,000 and caused 9,792 reported deaths 1 .
Daniel H.F. Rubin, Franz G. Zingl, Deborah R. Leitner, Ralph Ternier, Valusnor Compere, Samson Marseille, Damien Slater, Jason B. Harris, Fahima Chowdhury, Firdausi Qadri, Jacques Boncy, Louise C. Ivers, Matthew K. Waldor   +12 more
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Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human population growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic [PDF]

, 2011
Since the 18th century, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have experienced similar natural forces, including earthquakes and tropical storms. These countries are two of the most prone of all Latin American and Caribbean countries to natural hazards events,
Christian D. Klose, Christian Webersik
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Development of a comprehensive, sustained community mental health system in post-earthquake Haiti, 2010–2019

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2020
Between 2010 and 2019 the international health care organization Partners In Health (PIH) and its sister organization Zanmi Lasante (ZL) mounted a long-term response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, focused on mental health.
G. Raviola, A. Rose, J.R. Fils-Aimé, T. Thérosmé, E. Affricot, C. Valentin, S. Daimyo, S. Coleman, W. Dubuisson, J. Wilson, H. Verdeli, G. Belkin, G. Jerome, E. Eustache   +13 more
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Haiti

Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2015
This Selected Issues paper examines opportunities and challenges for growth in Haiti. Achieving a sustained increase in living standards in Haiti will require deep-seated reforms across a range of areas. Diversifying the export base is needed to cushion the impact of severe shocks that have reduced per capita income and prevented a sustained increase ...
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Peran anggota Satuan Reserse Kriminal dalam menanggulangi kejahatan jalanan

Jurnal Sosiologi Dialektika, 2020
Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor apakah yang menjadi penyebab terjadinya kejahatan jalanan di wilayah Polres Pelabuhan Tanjung Perak Surabaya dan untuk menganalisis upaya Satreskrim Polres Pelabuhan Tanjung Perak Surabaya ...
Farouk Ashadi Haiti
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Timely initiation of HIV antiretroviral therapy in Haiti 2004–2018: a retrospective cohort study

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. To describe trends in timing of ART initiation for newly diagnosed people living with HIV before and after Haiti adopted its Test and Start policy for universal HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) in July 2016, and to explore predictors of timely
Nancy Puttkammer, Canada Parrish, Yrvel Desir, Nathaelf Hyppolite, Nadjy Joseph, Lara Hall, Jean Guy Honoré, Ermane Robin, Georges Perrin, Kesner François   +9 more
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Did the Cholera epidemic in Haiti really start in the Artibonite Department?

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2013
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Rafael Llanes, Lorenzo Somarriba, Placido Pedroso, Emiliano Mariscal, Carlos Fuster, Yamila Zayas   +5 more
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Antibiotics in a Haitian neonatal intensive care unit: findings from a Plan-Do-Study-Act quality-improvement project

The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Background: In the critical care setting, delay in the administration of antibiotics has been associated with as much as a three-fold rise in mortality.
Jack Long, MD, Delight Wing, MD, Rose Pascale Paul, RN   +2 more
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Investigations of socioeconomic factors associated with follow-up compliance with malaria treatment in Haiti

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. To identify factors affecting compliance with follow-up during treatment in confirmed malaria patients at two health centers in Haiti. Methods.
Tamar E. Carter, Alexandre Existe, Madsen Beau de Rochars, Bernard A. Okech   +3 more
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