BACKGROUND International humanitarian aid workers providing care in emergencies are subjected to numerous chronic and traumatic stressors. OBJECTIVES To examine consequences of such experiences on aid workers' mental health and how the impact is influenced by moderating variables. METHODOLOGY We conducted a longitudinal study in a sample of international non-governmental organizations. Stud...

12 A generation of malnourished North Korean children is at risk of sustaining lifelong physical impairment as disease and years of starvation take their toll, according to international relief workers in North Korea. The scale of the impending disaster was revealed in a study conducted by international aid agencies, which details the devastation wrought by more than five years of severe food s...

BACKGROUND Global health policy and development aid trends also affect humanitarian health work. Reconstruction, rehabilitation and development initiatives start increasingly earlier after crisis, unleashing tensions between development and humanitarian paradigms. Recently, development aid shows specific interest in contexts affected by conflict and fragility, with increasing expectations for h...

Aid and the resulting development sector have expanded in developing countries past decades. Many studies explored effects of aid, but few studied on decisions around labor supply occupational choice. Using primary data from Sierra Leone, this article contributes to literature by exploring how presence a large influences preferences skilled workers. Four key findings emerge. First, is an attrac...

BACKGROUND The seroepidemiology of Leptospira infection in workers occupationally exposed to raw meat has been poorly studied. This work aimed to determine the association between Leptospira exposure and the occupation of meat worker, and to determine the seroprevalence association with socio-demographic, work, clinical and behavioral characteristics of the meat workers studied. METHODS We pe...

This essay reflects on the implementation of federal government emergency aid in Brazil context COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting elements from work Social Workers growing demand for supply material provisions. Economic and social conditions have particularities that impact operationalisation this benefit, which is aimed at poor, add complexity impose limits. When considering structural limits se...

Hearing loss is a major handicap in developing countries with paucity of trained audiologists and limited resources. In this pilot study trained community health workers were used to provide comprehensive hearing aid services in the community. One hundred and eleven patients were fitted with semi-digital hearing aid and were evaluated over a period of six months. They were assessed using self-r...

In this paper we evaluate how to effectively use the crowdsourcing service, Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), to content analyze textual data for use in psychological research. MTurk is a marketplace for discrete tasks completed by workers, typically for small amounts of money. MTurk has been used to aid psychological research in general, and content analysis in particular. In the current study...

In this paper, we present a single-shift workforce planning tool: the Head Count Allocation Solver (HCA) for a high volume manufacturing facility with several machine groups at each operation. Each machine group at a given operation requires a number of workers with specified skill levels and qualifications, and each qualified worker has a preference for operations and machine groups based on h...