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Fieldwork Summary Report-World Health Organization
<p>My fieldwork experience took place at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where I completed over 420 hours of practical experience. My fieldwork focused in the field of mental health, working on disorders management (psychosis, depression and suicide) and evidence-based …
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A headquarters for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1960.
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Improving implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist in high-income contexts
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is used in over 130 countries to improve patient safety by reducing preventable surgical complications. Previous studies have demonstrated that there is significant variation in adherence to and implementation of the SSC in …
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Evaluation of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHO DAS II) - German Version
ABSTRACT Backgroud: The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II) is a new measure of functioning and disability that is conceptually compatible with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). In contrast to other measures of health …
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Leprosy in Brazil: How Can Brazil Meet the World Health Organization's Goal of Leprosy Control?
… has the second most cases of leprosy in the world. Brazil's incidence of leprosy decreased significantly with the start of multi drug therapy in 1981, but over the past ten years, the incidence has remained fairly fixed. OBJECTIVE: Brazil has not met the World Health Organization's leprosy …
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Financing Global Health Governance: The World Health Organization, the WHO Foundation, and the Shifting Landscape of Development Financing
… the structural financing challenges facing the World Health Organization (WHO) and their implications for global health governance. It argues that WHO’s financial fragility is not merely a technical problem but the result of long-standing political and institutional choices that have shifted the …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… The article reported that the head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS initiative admitted that the threat of an AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals was “officially” over. These texts are particularly important for such an endeavor because, as I will argue below, the controversy …
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The Politics of Operationalizing the World Health Organization Activities: Global Politics, Health Security and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
… response’ and operational capabilities of the organization to further expand authority in outbreak response. This study concludes that the WHO, through the collection and distribution of knowledge, and efforts to increase operational capability as seen through the Global Outbreak Alert and …
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Epipathogenesis of caries: Analyses of family structure, fear, and fatalism upon World Health Organization decayed, missing, and filled teeth severity in Appalachia West Virginia and Pennsylvania
… economic, and biologic factors impacting dental health over the life-course.;Purpose: This study examined dental caries experience and family structure, dental fear, and fatalism in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.;Method: Using a cross-sectional study design, 2002-2009 Center for Oral Health …
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A Mathematical Study Of Malaria Models Of Ross And Ngwa
… or P. ovale. The disease is a killer; the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 40% of the world's total populations live in areas where malaria is an endemic disease and as global warming occurs, endemic malaria will spread to more areas. The malaria parasite kills a child …
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EXAMINE THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF COACHING MENTORING PROGRAMS ON TEACHER BURNOUT
<p>The World Health Organization has included “Burnout” in the International Classification of Diseases as an occupational phenomenon (World Health Organization, 2019). This phenomenon in teaching profession has created devastating attrition that urgently needs attention. The purpose of this study …
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Application of Child Growth Standards to Children Born Preterm in Epidemiologic Research: A Comparison of Methods and Implications for Inferences
… norm. The most widely used growth standards, the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards (WHO-GS), are based on a cohort of term-born children (births ≥37 weeks gestational age [GA]) and are not directly applicable to preterm-born children (births
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Methods for particulate matter emissions reduction in wood burning cookstoves
… in tremendous damages to human and environmental health. For example, in 2012 the World Health Organization estimated that 4.3 million people died prematurely from illnesses attributable to inefficient household use of biomass fuels.
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Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department Setting
… committing suicide every 12.8 minutes. The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2020 roughly 1.53 million people will commit suicide annually, and 10-20 times more will attempt suicide. This translates to one death due to suicide every 20 seconds and one suicide attempt every …
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The composition of certain lipids in man : a comparative study of lipids in total serum, in the serum B-lipoprotein fraction and in arterial atheromatous plaques in certain groups of people
… disease (I.H.D.), which has been defined by the World Health Organization (1957) as "the cardiac disability, acute and chronic, arising from reduction or arrest of blood supply to the myocardium in association with disease processes in the coronary arterial system".
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Men's knowledge, understanding and factors influencing their beliefs about male circumcision in rural communities in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… in men. MMC is now recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS as part of HIV prevention strategies in countries with heterosexually-driven HIV epidemics. This research project assesses men's knowledge, understanding and factors influencing their beliefs about male …
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Tuberculosis in Pakistan : improving control strategies
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified 25 countries as heavily struck by the tuberculosis misery. Pakistan came sixth in this list. High death and disease rates have put the Pakistan National TB Control Program in question. The performance is weak and its impact on reducing the burden …
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An SCIR Model of Meningococcal Meningitis
… the impact a vaccination program can have on the health of the population of epidemic prone countries. Analysis of the model shows the local stability of the disease free equilibrium, the existence of an endemic equilibrium and computation of the reproduction number, ℜ0 . Using a MATLAB program we …
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INVESTIGATION OF THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE
… Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), and World Health Organization in 2003 (Castro, El-Atat, McFarlane, Aneja, & Sowers, 2003). Previous genetic studies with monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs suggested a strongly heritable pattern for CMS risk factors, i.e. it is estimated that …
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Pain Management in Patients with Oncological Diseases – the Role of Nurses // Управление на болката при пациенти с онкологични заболявания – роля на медицинската сестра
… of The Cancer Prevention Program of WHO (World Health Organization), along with prophylaxis, early diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases. Pain must be treated effectively, which means efficient control and pain assessment. Assessing pain is vital for an adequate treatment …
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