UNLABELLED This article provides examples of adverse health effects, including weather-related injury, food insecurity, mental health issues, and water infrastructure damage, and the responses to these effects that are currently being applied in two Northwest Alaska communities. BACKGROUND In Northwest Alaska, warming is resulting in a broad range of unusual weather and environmental conditio...

Background: Health impact assessment (HIA) has been widely recommended for future social policies and investment, such as housing improvement. However, concerns have been raised about the utility and predictive value of an HIA. Use of existing research data would add more weight to forecasts by an HIA. Methods, results, and conclusions: A recent systematic review of housing intervention studies...

QUESTION Is there a means of assessing research impact beyond citation analysis? SETTING The case study took place at the Washington University School of Medicine Becker Medical Library. METHOD This case study analyzed the research study process to identify indicators beyond citation count that demonstrate research impact. MAIN RESULTS The authors discovered a number of indicators that ca...

there is much discussion going on lately whether dam construction is economic or not in termsof social consequences. accordingly, various techniques and software have been released to estimate the real social cost of dam construction among which, the software simpacts has been used extensively by researchers, worldwide. the present version of simpacts software only focuses on adverse effects of...

there is much discussion going on lately whether dam construction is economic or not in termsof social consequences. accordingly, various techniques and software have been released to estimate the real social cost of dam construction among which, the software simpacts has been used extensively by researchers, worldwide. the present version of simpacts software only focuses on adverse effects of...

background: migraine is one of the most common headaches that affect 11% or more adult population. recently, researchers have designed two questionnaires, namely headache impact test (hit) and migraine disability assessment (midas), with the aim of improving migraine care. these two tests provide a standard measurement about migraine's effects on people's life style that divide patients into 4 ...

more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...