This paper gives a brief explanation of the earthquake in Bam. It also reports on the rescue and relief operations, including the construction of emergency shelters and temporary housing, and on the country’s plan for the reconstruction of the city, which includes debris removal, the rebuilding of rural and urban residential and commercial units, the reconstruction of state and public buildings...

We assessed the validity of a syndromic case management approach for reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among 371 pregnant women attending antenatal care facilities in Kingston, Jamaica, using an algorithm previously validated in high-risk Jamaican women. For our antenatal attenders, the algorithm had low sensitivities for all RTIs (66.7% for cervicitis, 35.4% for trichomoniasis, 11.1% for ba...

Compared to other large industries, the building industry is highly fragmented, with most projects undertaken by temporary, project-based organizations consisting of many small firms. The client may consist of a variety of stakeholders within a company, perhaps including a building committee, groups of end-users and facilities management personnel. The design team may be led by an architect, bu...

In the planning phase of every construction project, layout of temporary facilities is a crucial task; site layout can affect safety, travel cost and time, construction productivity, and space utilization. However, site layout planning can be a complicated problem, due to the interdependency of influencing factors. Although interaction among activities is one of the major drivers of site layout...

BACKGROUND In the past few decades many countries have worked to increase the number of women delivering in facilities, with the goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia to understand where and with whom women deliver. Furthermore, we aim to test potential drivers of facility ...

Although it has physical effects, temporary landscape as a new issue provides various potentialas a place events that can’t be ignored because of wide range effects on promoting and upgrading the quality ofspace. The purpose of this study is to analyze the status and mechanism of temporary landscape. As a basic andpractical research, it is done by using the correlation method and descriptive-an...

[n the August 1994 issue of AjOr. authors Atwood, Holm, and James ("Activities of Daily Living Capabilities and Values of Long-Term-Care Facility Residents," pp. 710-716) concluded that residents of long-term-care facilities tended to report greater ability in activities of daily living (ADL) than did staff members. In my many years as an occupational therapist, [ have also found this to be tru...

PROBLEM On 6 February 2013, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami that struck the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, killing 10 people and displacing over 4700. APPROACH A post-disaster assessment of the risk of epidemic disease transmission recommended the implementation of an early warning alert and response network (EWARN) to rapidly detect, assess and respond to potential outb...

BACKGROUND It is preferable that children and adolescents requiring in-patient care for mental health problems are managed in age-appropriate facilities. To achieve this, nine specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in-patient units have been commissioned in New South Wales (NSW) since 2002. AIMS To examine trends in child and adolescent in-patient admissions since the ...