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Negative consequences of conflict-related sexual violence on survivors: a systematic review of qualitative evidence

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Conflicts exacerbate dynamics of power and inequalities through violence normalization, which acts as a facilitator for conflict-related sexual violence. Literature addressing its negative outcomes on survivors is scant.
Elena Rubini   +5 more
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Vulnerability of migrant women during disasters: a scoping review of the literature

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Disasters have an unequal impact on the population because of differences in conditions of vulnerability, exposure, and capacity. Migrants and women are among the groups that are at greater risk for and disproportionately affected by disasters.
Monica Trentin   +6 more
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Complementary Currencies for Humanitarian Aid [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021
The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory toward direct currency injection, something new has happened: namely the empowerment of communities to create their own local currencies, a tool known as Complementary Currency systems.
Leanne Ussher   +3 more
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Information as Humanitarian Aid

open access: yes, 2021
For a plethora of decisions we make on a daily basis, we can rely on timely, tailored information delivered via digital services. The technologies and the knowledge needed for the design, development and delivery of digital services have become increasingly accessible.
Kenny Meesters, Yan Wang
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Humanitarian aid in the archives: introduction

open access: yesDisasters, 2015
How might historical perspectives assist the goal of improving humanitarian responses? This introduction to a special issue of Disasters on the history of humanitarian action explores this question and outlines how the other submissions to the edition, each with its own approach and focus area from the nineteenth‐century to the present today, make ...
Davey, Eleanor, Scriven, Kim
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Teaching extent and military service improve undergraduate self-assessed knowledge in disaster medicine: An online survey study among Swedish medical and nursing students

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to identify the possible needs for undergraduate disaster medicine education in Sweden and to make informed recommendations for the implementation of disaster medicine content in medical and nursing schools in ...
Yohan Robinson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The COVID-19 pandemic response and its impact on post-corona health emergency and disaster risk management in Italy

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted societies, influencing countries' Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM) systems.
Alessandro Lamberti-Castronuovo   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grand challenges in humanitarian aid [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2018
Fund and study these priorities for natural and social sciences to meet a gaping need, urge Abdallah S. Daar, Trillium Chang, Angela Salomon and Peter A. Singer. Fund and study these priorities for natural and social sciences to meet a gaping need.
Abdallah S, Daar   +3 more
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Humanitarian aid

open access: yesMorecambe Bay Medical Journal, 2005
Until he chanced upon a video in 1991 about the suffering of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in the conflict with Azerbaijan, Anthony Peel was a general surgeon specialising in biliary, pancreatic and breast surgery in a district general hospital in the North East of England, a position from which he had expanded his interests in training and standards ...
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