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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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A revision of the World Health Organisation psychiatric disability assessment schedule
… and validate a contemporary revision of the World Health Organisation-Psychiatric Disability Assessment Schedule (1988). Data used was based on data from the WHO Collaborative Study on Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders (Sartorius et al., 1986). The second aim of this study …
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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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Evaluation of the World Health Organization’s basic emergency care course and online cases in Uganda
… illness and injury. The Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) rolled out the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course, the first openaccess short course to provide comprehensive basic emergency training for health workers in low-resource settings. The BEC and its new …
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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
Infectious diseases attract a lot of mediatic, cultural and political attention. But are those diseases like Ebola, or ‘disease x’ actually what kills us? Since 1946, the WHO is the most authoritative figure in the fights against infectious disease outbreaks. So how does the WHO maintain this power …
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An examination of the implementation of the World Health Organisation's anti-tuberculosis treatment, the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS), in poor South African communities
… Directly Observed Treatment Short Course, of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in poor South African communities. Research for this dissertation was carried out over a two-year period in one poor community, a tuberculosis (TB) quarantine hospital and several primary care clinics. This …
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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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Road traffic crash fatalities: An examination of national fatality rates and factors associated with the variation in fatality rates between nations with reference to the World Health Organisation Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 - 2020
… the Decade of Action for Road safety by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO has published baseline road traffic crash (RTC) fatality data for all member nations. The WHO has also suggested five Pillars of Action, mechanisms that may be instigated at the national level within the …
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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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Large-Scale Online Conversations About Public Health: Predicting Real-World Outcomes
… overdose remains one of the most severe public health challenges in the United States. Although online communities contain vast amounts of firsthand accounts, personal experiences, and peer-to-peer discussions about drug use, it is still unclear how these conversations can be analyzed to …
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