background vertically oriented global health initiatives (ghis) addressing the hiv/aids epidemic, including the president’s emergency plan for aids relief (pepfar), have successfully contributed to reducing hiv/aids related morbidity and mortality. however, there is still debate about whether these disease-specific programs have improved or harmed health systems overall, especially with respect...

BACKGROUND The treatment of acute pain in the emergency department is not always optimal. Peripheral nerve blocks using "blind" or nerve stimulator techniques have substantial disadvantages. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia may provide quick, safe, and effective pain relief in patients with proximal femoral fractures with severe pain. However, no evidence exists on emergency physician-perf...

introduction: pain may be described as a sensation of hurt or strong discomfort and is the body's way of sending message to the brain that an injury has occurred. pain medicines block these messages or reduce their effect on the brain. accurate administration of analgesia have a long –lasting effect on children whole experience of medical care and affects parents' and children's ...

In modern logistics operations, large-scale logistics companies, besides active participation in profit-seeking commercial business, also play an essential role during an emergency relief process by dispatching urgently-required materials to disaster-affected areas. Therefore, an issue has been widely addressed by logistics practitioners and caught researchers' more attention as to how the logi...

The Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) Users Group awarded Arthur D. Little, Inc. a contract to provide the next generation computer program for emergency relief system and effluent handling designs. The new computer program, SuperChems for DIERS, is a dynamic simulator, capable of performing emergency relief system and effluent handling designs for complex geometries and mul...

Relief demand and transportation links availability is the essential information that is needed for every natural disaster operation. This information is not in hand once a disaster strikes. Relief demand and network condition has been evaluated based on prediction method in related works. Nevertheless, prediction seems to be over or under estimated due to uncertainties and may lead to a failur...

Abstract The United States has a long history of providing ad hoc disaster assistance to agricultural producers. latest version – the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) follows five consecutive years appropriations for assistance. In response ongoing appropriations, there is growing interest in establishing permanent program. However, with that comes concerns over impact it could have on existing f...