Pity the poor nongovernmental organizations trying to work in North Korea…It is, by all accounts, a lose-lose situation. 1 Brad Glosserman The Japan Times In this issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Yim, Choi, and Van Rooyen provide us with a unique glimpse into the sensitivities and complexities surrounding the delivery of humanitarian aid in North Korea and the compelling struggle tha...

Sudan (population 33·5 million) has suffered civil war and disruption for the past 21 years. Conflict in the Darfur region in the West of Sudan, bordering Chad, has displaced 1·5 million and resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Many have been forced out of their traditional areas into makeshift situations with limited supplies of water and food, together with difficulties in a...

1 Environmental Medicine Consortium, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA 2 Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA 3 North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC, USA 4 Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Me...

for Steady-State Simulation Analysis Emily K. Lada SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, 27513-8617, USA, [email protected] James R. Wilson Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7906, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7906, USA, [email protected] Natalie M. Steiger Maine Business School, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469-5723, USA, [email protected]...

BACKGROUND Several mortality estimates for the Darfur conflict have been reported since 2004, but few accounted for conflict dynamics such as changing displacement and causes of deaths. We analyse changes over time for crude and cause-specific mortality rates, and assess the effect of displacement on mortality rates. METHODS Retrospective mortality surveys were gathered from an online databas...

study. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America Department of Statistics, National Cheng-Ku...