To implement simplified infectious disease surveillance and epidemic disease control during the relocation of Bhutanese refugees to Nepal.
Longitudinal observation study of mortality and morbidity.
...Refugee health units in six refugee camps housing 73,500 Bhutanese refugees in the eastern tropical lowland between Nepal and India.
Infectious disease surveillance and community-based programs to promote vitamin A supplementation, measles vaccination, oral rehydration therapy, and early use of antibiotics to treat acute respiratory infection.
Crude mortality rate, mortality rate for children younger than 5 years, and cause-specific mortality.
Crude mortality rates up to 1.15 deaths per 10,000 persons per day were reported during the first 6 months of surveillance. The leading causes of death were measles, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infections. Surveillance data were used to institute changes in public health management including measles vaccination, vitamin A supplementation, and control programs for diarrhea and acute respiratory infections and to ensure rapid responses to cholera, Shigella dysentery, and meningoencephalitis. Within 4 months of establishing disease control interventions, crude mortality rates were reduced by 75% and were below emergency levels.
Simple, sustainable disease surveillance in refugee populations is essential during emergency relief efforts. Data can be used to direct community-based public health interventions to control common infectious diseases and reduce high mortality rates among refugees while placing a minimal burden on health workers.
The Catholic church has not censured Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa for holding parliamentary office in South Africa. He sees no conflict between Catholic teachings and his political mission to build ...jobs and housing and improve the moral climate in the country.
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Abstract
Superintendents’ agency in the US is shaped by governance systems within education systems. These Education Governance Systems have been in a state of flux and experienced turbulence for ...twenty years. The professional challenge this research addresses is how do 14 credentialed educational professional African American women superintendents with doctorates and track records of school improvement, navigate the turbulence to empower families, and Empower Young Societal Innovators for Equity, Renewal (EYSIER), Social Mobility, and Peace.
This chapter identifies three aspects of a theory of knowledge to action to emerge from the empirical evidence presented. First, African American women superintendents need to know how to access policy and legislation, how to stay up to date with policy and need to be empowered to challenge policy. Policy has the back of African American women fighting institutionalised racism. Second, African American women superintendents need role models, and mentors with wisdom who can create proactive and mobilising networks across the state and the nation to advocate for and to support the teachers’ and leaders’ professional learning to be the best teachers, leaders and superintendents they can be. Finally, the African American women superintendents who have been self-selecting, or identified as potential future superintendents by current superintendents and schoolboards, need to be part of succession planning that transcends the short elected lives of district school boards. Newly incumbent African American women superintendents need to be empowered by Education Governance Systems to enable them to deliver on their manifestos and track records of outstanding school improvement with the impact strategies they were employed to implement. The impact strategies include promoting high-quality home–school engagement and ensuring all students learn how to learn, are culturally sensitive, ask good questions and solve problems as Young Societal Innovators for Equity and Renewal. The chapter recommends a network of African American women superintendents implements this theory of knowledge to action and that their work is documented, and if successful in optimising students’ learning, and outcomes, disseminated to build capacity for EYSIER.
Endgame in Zaire Collins, Carole J.L; Askin, Steve
The Nation (New York, N.Y.),
04/1997, Letnik:
264, Številka:
16
Magazine Article
Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of Zaire, has ruled the country for some 30 years, but a rebel group led Laurent Kabila is rapidly gaining ground. The US should atone for past misdeeds in Zaire by ...helping to establish a democratic and human rights-oriented government in the country.
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40.
S. Africans changing prayers Collins, Carole J L
National Catholic Reporter,
11/1995, Letnik:
32, Številka:
3
Magazine Article, Trade Publication Article
DURBAN, South Africa-- It was a simple question: Has the end of apartheid and the dawn of democracy changed the way South Africans pray? The answers were varied and complex.
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