There remains a critical gap in understanding challenges faced by humanitarian workers who may be key in providing assistance during complex emergencies. This study examines self-reported views by humanitarian workers working in Palestine concerning three concepts: resilience, generalized self-efficacy, and importance of workplace empowerment. Aid workers in Palestine face unique obstacles plac...

Social workers not only help service users, they also each other, and know the group as a space through which opportunities to give receive multiply. In Italy, initiative ‘Social Workers Helping Each Other’ was launched practitioners stay resilient mutually supportive during COVID-19 pandemic. these unprecedented turbulent times, social have been called on face new challenges concerns for users...

A large-scale workplace-based suicide prevention and early intervention program was delivered to over 9,000 construction workers on building sites across Queensland. Intervention components included universal General Awareness Training (GAT; general mental health with a focus on suicide prevention); gatekeeper training provided to construction worker volunteer 'Connectors'; Suicide First Aid (A...

Social capital is important to disadvantaged groups, such as sex workers, as a means of facilitating internal group-related mutual aid and support as well as access to broader social and material resources. Studies among sex workers have linked higher social capital with protective HIV-related behaviors; however, few studies have examined social capital among sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa. ...

We review definitions of generalized parallel transports in terms of Cheeger-Simons differential characters. Integration formulae are given in terms of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology classes. These representations of parallel transport can be extended to situations involving distributions as is appropriate in the context of quantized fields. LAPTH-750/99 SPhT-T04/080

There is no doubt that health worke ers are the cornerstone of functioning health systems. Chronic underefunding of health systems in developing coune tries has led to the current health worker crisis, which threatens the achievee ment of the Millennium Development Goals. In recognition of this, WHO has devoted The world health report 2006 to health workers.1 WHO calls for national leadership s...

In this paper we establish a one-to-one correspondence between S1-gerbes with connections, on the one hand, and their holonomies, for simply connected manifolds, or their parallel transports, in the general case, on the other hand. This result is a higher-order analogue of the familiar equivalence between bundles with connections and their holonomies for connected manifolds. The holonomy of a g...

The parallel linear transports defined by flat linear connection are axiomatically described. On this basis a number of properties, some of which are new, of these transports and connections are derived.