BACKGROUND Between 2001 and 2014, British military nurses served in Afghanistan caring for both service personnel and local nationals of all ages. However, there have been few research studies assessing the psychological impact of delivering nursing care in a war zone hospital. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to explore the challenges and psychological stressors facing military nurses in...

INTRODUCTION Mortality in war is traditionally divided into two categories: killed in action and died of wounds. Mortality in civilian trauma is generally divided into three categories: immediate death (50%), early death (30%), and late death (20%). Can we identify a trimodal death distribution among war victims? METHODS We analyzed data for casualties in the Lebanon War from June 6 to Septem...

health, fail at their work or drop out of university. A university is a specialised community, with a particular pattern of selection, varying techniques for processing its material and with a 'wastage rate' that is of national concern. There are special stresses?social, academic and cultural?to which its population are subject. These can erode a vulnerable, developing personality, provoke a la...

The Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) is the U.S. Army’s lead research laboratory for improving the care of combat casualties. The Institute follows a rigorous process for analyzing patterns of injury and the burden of disease to determine where research can be conducted in order to positively impact care. This analysis led the USAISR to focus research on: preventing death from bleeding; ...

The lack of a detailed landslide inventory makes research on the vulnerability of people to landslides highly limited. In this paper, the authors collect information on the landslides that have caused casualties in China, and established the Landslides Casualties Inventory of China. 100 landslide cases from 2003 to 2012 were utilized to develop an empirical relationship between the volume of a ...