scholarly journals (P1-35) Adapting a Humanitarian Organization for Disaster Response, Operation Smile in Haiti, 2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s110-s110
Author(s):  
R. Zoraster ◽  
M. Beers ◽  
T. Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Operation Smile ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Humanitarian Organization

BackgroundOperation Smile International (OSI) is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) with experience providing surgical care throughout the world. OSI has vast logistical capacity, skilled and credential providers, and international relationships. Disaster response had been considered by OSI in the past, but never initiated. However, the magnitude of the Haiti disaster, coupled with request from Haitian OS Partners led to the initial disaster response of the OSI organization.Discussion and ObservationsThis presentation will: (1) Describe the considerations and rationale that led OSI to this intervention. (2) Discuss the process of developing a disaster response within a relatively short period of time. (3) The response itself, and (4) Present how the lessons learned will be adapted to future OSI capacity and planning.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arnet ◽  
Pascal C. Baumgartner ◽  
Vera Bernhardt ◽  
Markus L. Lampert ◽  
Kurt E. Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The University

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

There will be more pandemics. A pandemic might come from an old, familiar foe such as influenza or might emerge from a new source—a zoonosis that makes its way into humans, perhaps. The epilogue asks how the world will confront pandemics in the future. It is likely that patterns established long ago will re-emerge. But how will new challenges, like climate change, affect future pandemics and our ability to respond? Will lessons learned from the past help with plans for the future? One thing is clear: in the face of a serious pandemic much of the developing world’s public health infrastructure will be woefully overburdened. This must be addressed.

scholarly journals The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of urgent surgery: a perspective from the USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhiman Cheeyandira
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Urgent Surgery ◽  
The World ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Made In

Abstract Corona virus pandemic has affected all the 50 states in the USA. States such as NY, CA and WA being the most affected. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, as of 28 March 2020, the total number of cases in the USA is over 103 300 and number of deaths to 1668. In the coming weeks, COVID-19 rates are expected to begin skyrocketing and hit a peak in late April/May/June given lessons learned from China, Italy and others. COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) as confirmed cases approach 575 444 patients with 26 654 deaths across over 160 countries, as of 28 March 2020. There is a lot of impact on management of the urgent and emergent cases. This article highlights the changes that are being made in delivering urgent and emergent surgical care during the pandemic.

A Study on the Estimation of the Occurrence Frequency of Mega-drought by the Characteristics of Drought Damage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Youngseok ◽  
Kim Jinbok ◽  
Park Jongun ◽  
Park Moojong
Keyword(s):  
Drought Index ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Index ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Agricultural Drought ◽  
Drought Indices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Drought Damage

<p>Unlike natural disasters such as typhoons, torrential rains and floods, drought is a disaster caused by long-term effects as well as short-term effects. The effect of drought is caused by damage from a short period of weeks to a long period of years, which causes extensive and enormous damage to agriculture, life, society and economy. In addition, the recent climate change has affected the frequency and scale of rainfall in the global temperature, so it is necessary to prepare measures against it.</p><p>The past studies on drought have been conducted using drought indexes such as agricultural, meteorological, and hydrological methods to evaluate drought. The representative drought indexes for each drought are Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Agricultural drought is Crop Moisture Index (CMI), Crop Specific Drought Index (CSDI), Hydrological drought is Surface Drought Water Supply Index (SWSI), Reclamation Drought Index (RDI) and so on are used. However, these drought indices are only used as a method of predicting the depth of drought, and do not give the actual number of drought occurrences.</p><p>In this study, we want to determine the frequency of Mega-drought occurrences in consideration of the drought damage characteristics that occurred worldwide from 1900 to 2018. The drought damages in the world were used by EM-DAT (the Emergency Events Database) which manages disaster data in CRED (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters). Drought damages occurred in the world from 1900 to 2018 occurred more than once/years in 146 countries. The duration of drought persistence occurred in the country continuously for at least one to 17 years. The purpose of this study is to propose the criteria for mega drought by using the past victim data in connection with the incidence frequency.</p><p>Acknowledges : This research was supported by a grant(2019-MOIS31-010) from Fundamental Technology Development Program for Extreme Disaster Response funded by Korean Ministry of Interior and Safety(MOIS).</p><div> </div>

Advancing an Ecosystem Approach in the Gulf of Maine

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Maine ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Ecosystem Modeling ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Near Term

<i>Abstract</i> .—As we move towards an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) in the Gulf of Maine (GoM), it is valuable to collectively gauge where we have been, where we are now, and where we anticipate we might be headed with respect to ecosystem modeling. We do so by providing a brief history of ecosystem modeling in the GoM region, focused on a set of network models at various points in time over the past 70 years. We then describe current and ongoing ecosystem modeling efforts in the GoM region, with a particular emphasis on how they are being used in a living marine resource (LMR) management context. We then discuss how such models could be used to advance an EAF in the near term with a focus on the appropriate application of classes of models for addressing various types of research and management questions. Finally, we highlight major lessons learned from our modeling endeavors in an LMR context in the GoM region, so that we and other regions around the world can continue to move towards an EAF.

scholarly journals The World Still Is Not Flat: Lessons Learned from Organismal Interactions with Environmental Heterogeneity in Terrestrial Environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W Sears ◽  
Eric A Riddell ◽  
Travis W Rusch ◽  
Michael J Angilletta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Heterogeneity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrestrial Environments ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Different Time Scales ◽  
Physiological Systems

Abstract Over the past decade, ecologists and physiologists alike have acknowledged the importance of environmental heterogeneity. Meaningful predictions of the responses of organisms to climate will require an explicit understanding of how organismal behavior and physiology are affected by such heterogeneity. Furthermore, the responses of organisms themselves are quite heterogeneous: physiology and behavior vary over different time scales and across different life stages, and because physiological systems do not operate in isolation of one another, they need to be considered in a more integrated fashion. Here, we review case studies from our laboratories to highlight progress that has been made along these fronts and generalizations that might be made to other systems, particularly in the context of predicting responses to climate change.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arnet ◽  
Pascal C. Baumgartner ◽  
Vera Bernhardt ◽  
Markus L. Lampert ◽  
Kurt E. Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The University

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

Implementing a Successful Sustainability Plan at Queen’s University

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Stakeholder Group ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Sustainability Movement

Over the past decade universities from around the world have begun recognizing their need and  responsibility to incorporate sustainable ideals into their teaching practices and daily operations. This same recognition has taken place at Queen’s University where over the past several years a sustainability  movement has been gathering momentum. Individuals from every stakeholder group are beginning to  explore how Queen’s can implement a successful campus wide sustainability plan. It is however unclear  how exactly this commitment should be approached. In spite of the large number of universities making  similar commitments there appears to be no ‘cookie cutter’ model for success. Every university has its own  unique challenges and opportunities that must be addressed early in the planning phases. By combining the lessons learned at other institutions of higher education with the challenges and opportunities at Queen’s this paper lays out a strategy for how Queen’s should approach sustainability.

scholarly journals Changing habitats of the world

Oryx ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin W. Holdgate
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
World Environment

The world is being altered by human action more rapidly now than natural forces changed it during any short period in the past. There are predictions of massive ecological changes and extinctions of species on a unprecedented scale. The author examines what is actually happening, what the consequences are likely to be, and what corrective action can be taken. He emphasizes that, as with all exercises in crystal gazing, this cannot be an error-free analysis. Despite the vast scale of current scientific activity, our knowledge of the processes affecting the world environment and our monitoring of changes are far from adequate. Too many statements—including widely quoted estimates of extinctions—are based on extrapolation from limited data. This is a speculative paper intended as a spur to further analysis rather than as a definitive review. It is based on an address to the Annual General Meeting of the Fauna and Flora Preservation Society on 10 September 1986.*

scholarly journals Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the Novel Coronavirus Disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sai Krishna Gudi ◽  
Komal Krishna Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Short Span ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

In a short span, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has captured global consciousness by significantly affecting the day-to-day life of humans and emerged as a public health emergency. Undoubtedly, it indicates that lessons learnt from the past epidemics of coronaviruses such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), had not enough and thus left us ill-prepared to deal with the challenges that COVID-19 pandemic is currently posing. Currently, as a global pandemic, COVID-19 poses major challenges and thus forcing the entire world to lockdown. However, the disease has prepared humankind in facing such outbreaks at present as well as in the future. Besides, it has also taught numerous lessons that are worth considering and implementing to make the world a better reality.

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