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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"health crisis"”.
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De-Escalation and Safety Intervention in Mental Health Crisis
<p>The aims of this CNL Internship Project are to decrease the number of incidents in which patients are escorted out of the clinic via staff or SFPD due to violent/aggressive behavior, are put on a 5150 hold, or who are absent without official leave (AWOL) or leave against medical advice (AMA) by …
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Sick ‘scapes : boutique and corporate food geographies and Mexico’s public health crisis
… arranged to reinforce and deepen pre-existing health, gender, race, and class inequalities. Throughout the country there is an emerging elite boutique food movement heralded by public health officials and food activists as healthy and sustainable, yet, paradoxically, the country is also …
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A case study of community response to a health crisis from a communication perspective
… needles during intravenous drug use, a public health emergency was declared in March 2015. This epidemic was a symptom of the overall communal health issues within the area related to drugs, crime, prostitution and poverty. These problems affect residents’ physical and mental health, however, …
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Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis The Role Physicians can Play in Keeping Communities Safe
Gun violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Research shows that violence functions similarly to a communicable disease. An exposure such as someone witnessing violence or being a victim of violence is a major risk factor to the exposed person becoming a perpetrator of violence …
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"Liquid Poison": picturing a public health crisis through visual storytelling in the Nineteenth Century Press
… news accounts of New York City's "swill milk crisis" as reported in <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> were examined to illuminate the role of the illustrated newspaper in the development visual journalism. It is argued that visual reporting offered a new narrative about "swill milk" …
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Covid-19 in the Developing World: Managing One of The Gambia's Most Fatal Public Health Crisis
… highlighting a case study on The Gambia’s public health response between March 2020 to March 2021. The Gambia government missed an opportunity during a crucial grace period between December 2019 and March 17, 2020 (when the West African country confirmed its first case), to plan and implement …
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Managing emergency care operations through optimal patient routing decisions and predictive demand estimation during public health crisis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Optimizing pandemic testing policies and implications for future health crisis interventions: Lessons from educational institutions and community engagement
… society and posing significant threats to public health. Among the myriad sectors affected, educational institutions faced unique dilemmas in safely reopening while mitigating the risk of disease transmission. This dissertation presents an examination of strategies aimed at controlling the spread …
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TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM TRAINING: A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP AMONG COUNTY SERVICES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
<p>The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program is a community partnership that provides education, understanding, interventions, relationships, and protection for responding officers, individuals in crisis and the community. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of CIT …
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Does the Nature of the Crisis Matter? A Study of Global Bank Performance during a Credit Crisis, The Debt Crisis &; Health Crisis
… performance of banks during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the sovereign debt crisis, and COVID-19 crisis. An ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression model was used to observe the influence of bank specific, macroeconomic and industry related variables on global bank performance. …
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Telephone street triage : a service user perspective
… for service users seeking help during a mental health crisis. Simultaneously, the Police have reported concerns about the expectations placed on their officers in dealing with the rising numbers of people experiencing a mental health crisis. In 2014 the Home Office launched The Crisis Care …
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Why is the hidden disability of autism so visible in mental health inpatient services? The autistic view from personal stories.
… individuals are overrepresented on mental health wards in the UK compared to in the general population. This has implications for the provision of mental health care. It is important to understand why this minority group appear to be more inclined to reach mental health crisis and require …
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Self-Regulatory Brain Networks of Eating Behavior
Obesity is currently a public health crisis in North America not sparing the rapidly expanding population of older adults. While lifestyle interventions remain the most popular treatment for obesity, many individuals fail to monitor their eating behavior and lose weight. The over-reaching purpose …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Academic Achievement and Mental Health of Elementary Students: COVID-19 Effect on Students in Pre-k Through 4th grade
… to the damage to student learning, a mental health crisis emerged as many students lost access to school services. This mixed methods study aimed to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on United States elementary students’ academic achievement and mental health. I found in my study teachers and …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
… an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts, USA. Beginning locally in Massachusetts, I filmed parents reflecting on losing children to overdoses, first responders administering naloxone to save overdose victims, and public health …
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Moral Implications of Emergency Department Crowding
… operate beyond its capacity" has become a public health crisis in the United States. ED crowding can lead to compromised care which threatens the moral values medicine has been built upon (Cowan and Trzeciak 2005). This thesis offers a brief history of the development of hospital based EDs to …
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Furious Acts: AIDS and the Arts of Activism, 1981-1996
… Gran Fury, the NAMES Project, and the Gay Men's Health Crisis. My project is organized thematically to understand how artistic practice influenced collective identity, safer sex education, and the role of mourning in AIDS activism. I also examine how different artistic media (video, photography, …
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Covid-19 impact on Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the duration of the pandemic period
… measures to restrict the contagion of the health crisis, which had a disruptive impact on global value chains. To limit these adverse effects, policymakers — subject to budgetary constraints — implemented fiscal, monetary, and other stimulus packages to lessen the adverse impact on the real …
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A Secure and Privacy Preserving COVID-19 Notification System
The worldwide health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting people's life for over one year now. While waiting for an effective treatment, there have been various Contact Tracing Systems (CTS) developed and adopted across the globe to help stop the spread of the virus. While …
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Isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV infected children on antiretroviral therapy living in a high tuberculosis prevalence area a randomized controlled trial
… (TB) and HIV are dual epidemics and a public health crisis in Southern Africa. An estimated 2.5 million children are living with HIV, of which 2.3 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 230 000 child deaths from AIDS. In 2010 there were an estimated 8 million incident cases of …
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