BACKGROUND Natural disasters result in significant numbers of disabling impairments. Paradoxically, however, the traditional health system response to natural disasters largely neglects health-related rehabilitation as a strategic intervention. OBJECTIVES To examine the role of health-related rehabilitation in natural disaster relief along three lines of inquiry: (1) epidemiology of injury an...

This article examines the scope for strategies to build natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. Natural assets include sources of raw materials such as forests and fisheries, and the airsheds, lands, and water bodies that provide environmental sinks for the disposal of wastes. These resources become assets when people have rights to access their benefits. Four str...

The purpose of the Integrated Natural Resources Management program in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENARID) is to bring national investment projects in the field of Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM). The impact evaluation study tests whether the selected technology has significantly contributed to restore and maintain of the ecosystem functions and productivity, and whet...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary rehabilitation is effective in all stages of COPD. The availability and utilization of pulmonary rehabilitation resources, and the characteristics of COPD patients receiving rehabilitation, were investigated in primary and secondary care in central Sweden. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data on available pulmonary rehabilitation resources were collected using questionnaires, to ...

the system analysis plays an important role in natural resources, water resources and industrial engineering. in recent years, most parts of iran like golestan province, due to the lack of integrated river basin management, have been suffered numerous losses in variant environmental, social and economic aspects. in this paper an application of system analysis has been applied to optimal pattern...