Threat intensifies ideological investment (e.g., ethnocentrism, religiosity) as well as a diverse and orthogonally related set of responses, such as aesthetic preferences or tendencies to seek physical proximity with others. An emerging consensus unifies these diverse threat-responses as superficially varied expressions of a single underlying process designed to reduce anxiety. In contrast, evo...

Background: Millions of children are affected by disasters every year. Children need not be passive victims, however, but instead may contribute to disaster risk reduction activities. Objective: This paper provides a theoretical foundation for children's involvement in disaster risk reduction activities. Method: The paper reviews and analyses the literature on children's participation, on their...

Cardiovascular complications are the most common cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Noninvasive stress testing is rarely helpful in assessing risk, and for most patients there is no evidence that coronary revascularization provides more protection against perioperative cardiovascular events than optimal medical management. Patients likely to benefit from perioperative beta blockade...

Research on disaster risk reduction education (hereafter, DRR education) focuses educational acts that take place between instructors and learners. Current research principally analyzes the knowledge skills transmitted from to learners, with expectation teach learners so can engage proactively in DRR-related activities respond appropriately an actual disaster. However, previous studies have poi...

Evidence has been accumulating for some time regarding the reduced life-expectancy experienced by people living with a mental illness. In developed world settings this can involve a two-decade reduction in life expectancy, whilst in the developing world the gap may be as high as thirty years. Whilst genetic risk factors and suicide contribute to this ‘scandal of premature mortality’...