Global health aid provided by medical students in Singapore to vulnerable populations in Asia includes efforts in preventive medicine, for example, administration of vaccines and installation of water tanks, health education to improve knowledge on diseases afflicting communities, health screening, and affordable treatment for specific conditions. The Manila Medical Mission is a student group, ...

Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) with expertise in the collection, analysis and presentation of data and the development of supporting technologies, have potential to inform humanitarian aid organizations and help increase the efficiency of their operations. This study analyzes the role of V&TCs during recent response efforts and identifies a number of challenges of organizational na...

The article is devoted to the topic of liability for torts committed within scope volunteering and humanitarian aid. main concepts, as aid, are defined. It has been established that characterized by fact it acts on basis representation; persons who wish become volunteers added their lists concluding an appropriate contract with non-profit organizations institutions whose behalf they will perfor...

To the Editor, I read with interest the report byWalk et al [1] cataloguing the impressive achievements of a 2009 humanitarian mission by the US Naval Ship Comfort. The authors took pains to point out the efforts to partner with host nation surgeons and medical doctors to provide appropriate screening and—when possible—postoperative follow-up, and mentioned the goals of incorporating education ...

from War-Torn Societies Project Summary: Examines the circumstances giving rise to the refugee dependency syndrome, its manifestation in different phases of humanitarian assistance programmes and psycho-social implications into the long-term. The author looks at the proliferation of emergency aid situations, elements conducive to dependency, and the influence of trauma on coping mechanisms, par...

Global internal displacement Worldwide, in 2012, a total of 28.8 million persons were displaced from their homes due to generalized violence and human rights violations, while remaining within the borders of their countries of origin, the highest figure ever recorded. Based on the United Nations report, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the international humanitarian aid community us...

Humanitarian aid's psycho-therapeutic turn in the 1990s was mirrored by the increasing emotionalization and subjectivation of fund-raising campaigns. In order to grasp the depth of this interconnectedness, this article argues that in both cases what we see is the post-Fordist production paradigm at work; namely, as Hardt and Negri put it, the direct production of subjectivity and social relatio...

The Social Construction of Disaster Disaster is widely perceived as an event beyond human control. The capricious hand of fate has moved against unsuspecting human communities, creating massive destruction and despair.[i] The sudden randomness of the event accentuates the cruelty of its effects, as surely the victims would have acted differently, had they known the risk. Other nations and organ...

Through the experience of being stationed on the USS Mercy hospital ship (T-AH19) and a preliminary comprehension of the personnel and material arrangements, processing and functional formats, and the multi-platform contributions of US Navy hospital ships, we briefly introduce the characteristics of US hospital ships regarding medical support, emergency rescue exercises, communications and trai...

ENGINEERING Correction for “Inkjet-printed point-of-care immunoassay on a nanoscale polymer brush enables subpicomolar detection of analytes in blood,” by Daniel Y. Joh, Angus M. Hucknall, Qingshan Wei, Kelly A. Mason, Margaret L. Lund, Cassio M. Fontes, Ryan T. Hill, Rebecca Blair, Zackary Zimmers, Rohan K. Achar, Derek Tseng, Raluca Gordan, Michael Freemark, Aydogan Ozcan, and Ashutosh Chilko...