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British Journal of Nursing, 2010
Having read many reports of the Haitian earthquake disaster, I am sure there are many nurses who would like to help but feel totally inadequate to volunteer. First of all, there is the problem of gaining relevant training and experience. There is no doubt that UK nursing education, even at degree level, is unlikely to prepare you adequately for the ...
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Having read many reports of the Haitian earthquake disaster, I am sure there are many nurses who would like to help but feel totally inadequate to volunteer. First of all, there is the problem of gaining relevant training and experience. There is no doubt that UK nursing education, even at degree level, is unlikely to prepare you adequately for the ...
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Counterterrorism or Humanitarian Aid?
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2014Worsening situations around the world up the risks to providers.
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JAMA, 1993
Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes, the world has yet to see a "peace dividend." Instead of two superpowers competing for sole possession of the best economic and political system, we now see numerous ethnic groups trying to found nations, define separate identities, and vent long-standing resentments.
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Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes, the world has yet to see a "peace dividend." Instead of two superpowers competing for sole possession of the best economic and political system, we now see numerous ethnic groups trying to found nations, define separate identities, and vent long-standing resentments.
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2011
This chapter contrasts the response to the Wenchuan earthquake (May 2008) which took place in a landlocked region of China with that of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which as an island nation, was theoretically easily accessible to external aid provision via air or sea.
Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit
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This chapter contrasts the response to the Wenchuan earthquake (May 2008) which took place in a landlocked region of China with that of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which as an island nation, was theoretically easily accessible to external aid provision via air or sea.
Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit
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Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 2013
When health care providers rushed to assist after the September 11 attacks, they were neither prepared nor cognizant of the risk of serious respiratory ailments or blood cancer they were exposed to. When community members and nurses traveled to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, many were not prepared for life in a makeshift camp without potable water ...
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When health care providers rushed to assist after the September 11 attacks, they were neither prepared nor cognizant of the risk of serious respiratory ailments or blood cancer they were exposed to. When community members and nurses traveled to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, many were not prepared for life in a makeshift camp without potable water ...
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Humanitarian aid in the archives: introduction
Disasters, 2015How 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 nineteenthâcentury to the present today, make ...
Davey, Eleanor, Scriven, Kim
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International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 2019
This article contributes to an overall understanding of the challenges faced by humanitarian aid international non-government organizations (INGOs) in specific culturally context-sensitive regions of Myanmar. This research is based on a review of literature, relevant case study analysis, and on ten semi-structured interviews with the humanitarian ...
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This article contributes to an overall understanding of the challenges faced by humanitarian aid international non-government organizations (INGOs) in specific culturally context-sensitive regions of Myanmar. This research is based on a review of literature, relevant case study analysis, and on ten semi-structured interviews with the humanitarian ...
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2014
Humanitarian aid is the assistance given to people in distress by individuals, organisations or governments with the core purpose of preventing and alleviating human suffering.The principles of humanitarian intervention are impartiality, neutrality and independence.
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Humanitarian aid is the assistance given to people in distress by individuals, organisations or governments with the core purpose of preventing and alleviating human suffering.The principles of humanitarian intervention are impartiality, neutrality and independence.
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Biosecurity for humanitarian aid
Science, 2021Matthijs P, van den Burg +15 more
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