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Students' Involvement in International Humanitarian Aid: Learning from Student Responses to the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Aid delivery has been critiqued for its failure to be locality-specific and culturally relevant for recipients. Humanitarian responses to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami involved volunteers, professionals, and social work and other students.
Dominelli, Lena, Vickers, Tom
core   +2 more sources

Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Principles to guide a volunteer humanitarian faith-based short-term medical mission in Nepal: A case study

open access: yesChristian Journal for Global Health, 2018
Global health inequities, natural disasters, and mass migration of refugees have led to an increase in volunteer humanitarian responses worldwide. While well intentioned for doing good, there is an increasing awareness of the importance for improved ...
Rebecca Houweling, Barbara Astle
doaj   +1 more source

Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beliefs and perceptions that impair cleft care treatment in Madagascar: A qualitative study during humanitarian mission

open access: yesJournal of Cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies, 2017
Context: During humanitarian cleft care mission in developing countries, a considerable noncompliance of the patient remains evident despite the provided medical support.
Nirina Adrien Jean Vivier Mandrano   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regional approaches to international humanitarian law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) are a global concern. The enforcement of IHLhas traditionally focused on the State level. As States have shown an unwillingness or inability to address violations, attention has moved to the ...
Burchill, Richard M
core   +3 more sources

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanitarian access

open access: yes
This chapter first establishes the multi-directional nature of humanitarian access. It then looks at the legal basis for humanitarian access in international humanitarian law (IHL). Next, the chapter explores restrictions to humanitarian access, including bureaucratic restrictions and security-related issues, before outlining tools for managing access ...
Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanitarianism

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter explores how humanitarianism navigates between resilience and vulnerability to set boundaries around what can and cannot be done in the name of humanitarian action. Humanitarianism has widely adopted a resilience approach, yet vulnerability remains a key indicator in targeting, although its application is increasingly complex.
Bankoff, Greg   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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