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Living on the Edge: Young People, Social Work and Climate Policy and Action

ASEAN Social Work Journal
Today’s young people will be on the frontline of experiencing the worst effects of the climate crisis as they age in a world in which climate-induced disasters will be increasing in intensity and frequency unless ‘net zero’ is reached before the ...
Lena Dominelli
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Self-efficacy and humanitarian aid workers

Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2021
As a result of frequent exposure to trauma, aid workers are at high risk for negative psychological symptoms. Training specifically geared at fostering critical incident self-efficacy in humanitarian aid workers may bolster critical incident self ...
Christine R. Turner, Donald Bosch, Anne A. T. Nolty   +2 more
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Rapid Response Crop Maps in Data Sparse Regions [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Spatial information on cropland distribution, often called cropland or crop maps, are critical inputs for a wide range of agriculture and food security analyses and decisions. However, high-resolution cropland maps are not readily available for most countries, especially in regions dominated by smallholder farming (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa). These maps
arxiv  

Humanitarian Aid, Fertility and Economic Growth [PDF]

Economica, 2010
This paper examines the effect of humanitarian aid on fertility and economic growth. In an overlapping generations model, where health status in adulthood depends on health in childhood, adult agents allocate their time to work, leisure and childrearing activities.
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Botulism in the Highlands: Understanding the High-Altitude Effect

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Botulism is a foodborne, life-threatening neuroparalytic disease caused by Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria. Its incidence is unknown and underestimated due to missed diagnoses, especially in remote areas.
Momen Almomen, Ziad Memish
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Humanitarian health education and training state-of-the-art: a scoping review

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionIn the past decade, humanitarian emergencies have been increasing, leading to an higher demand for humanitarian health professionalization.
Awsan Bahattab, Awsan Bahattab, Monica Trentin, Monica Trentin, Ives Hubloue, Francesco Della Corte, Francesco Della Corte, Luca Ragazzoni, Luca Ragazzoni   +8 more
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Identity in transition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of international humanitarian workers’ experiences of returning home

Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2021
This interpretative phenomenological analysis explores aid workers’ understanding of identity and belonging through the transition from working in humanitarian aid to returning home.
Emilia Marie Wersig, Kevin Wilson-Smith
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Decolonising humanitarianism or humanitarian aid?

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Tammam Aloudat, Themrise Khan
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Accounting for Charitable and Humanitarian Aid in Budgetary Institutions in Ukraine [PDF]

Bìznes Inform
The article examines and systematizes the order and features of accounting for charitable and humanitarian aid in budgetary institutions of Ukraine. First of all, the essence of charitable assistance and its difference from humanitarian aid were studied,
Shavrina Yuliia V., Sliunina Tetiana L.
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Forecasting Internally Displaced Population Migration Patterns in Syria and Yemen [PDF]

, 2018
Armed conflict has led to an unprecedented number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) - individuals who are forced out of their homes but remain within their country. IDPs often urgently require shelter, food, and healthcare, yet prediction of when large fluxes of IDPs will cross into an area remains a major challenge for aid delivery organizations.
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