BACKGROUND The repatriation of patients from foreign hospitals can foster the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MRB). We aimed to evaluate the incidence of MRB in patients treated in foreign hospitals and repatriated by international inter-hospital air transport in order to better manage these patients and adjust our procedures. METHODS The records from all consecutive aer...

Previous research from our Center has documented the importance of various psychological factors in predicting psychiatric resilience (Segovia et.al, 2012) and health (Segovia et. al, 2015) in repatriated Vietnam-era prisoners of war. Optimism was shown to be a better predictor of long-term psychiatric health than variables such as amount of antisocial/psychopathic traits, post-traumatic sympto...

Koser (1993) proposed a research model for examining the interaction between information and repatriation, which focused upon the receipt and evaluation of information about their homes by refugees in exile. That model is presented and tested using interview responses from Mozambican refugees in Malawi sampled in 1992. The goal was to disaggregate refugees' decision-making process in an attem...

Two questions are discussed in this research. The first is: how to understand the phenomenon that decolonization is a rarely mentioned word context of repatriation, while colonialism familiar issue Chinese people? second: people's attitude towards repatriating cultural objects removed from China during colonial era? This research aimed provide an in-depth view understanding history, internation...

The aim of this study is to analyse the institutional problems which restrain the repatriation of refugees and displaced persons to and within Bosnia and Hercegovina with examples from the municipalities of Ilidza, Bosnia and Hercegovina. With intention to fulfil the aim of this study we will try to answer what problems that are connected to the Dayton Peace Agreement and how those problems imp...

Private health insurance (PHI) is an important part of the Australian health system. During the introduction of the recent PHI reforms it was argued that, without the reforms, the public hospital system would undoubtedly collapse under the increased demand for public health services. The increase in PHI coverage might also have been expected to result in an increase in the revenue earned by pub...