C-Urge project is a doctoral network set up to research and better understand the complexity of climate and enviromental change, that is happening on global, as well as on a local scale.
Through various research approaches set in various countries, we aim to highlight the notion of urgency and need to enrich the debate around the topic of environemtal change, that is both fast, and subtle and poses a serious challenge for the future.
A photo essay to introduce you to the EATWELL project.
In the spirit of life long learning
The WHO, a well respected organization, pushed for a similar framework of 'public health security'.
Legislation in the United States that supported a global model of health care in order to address pandemics and other hazards.
Growing issues with pathogenicity and mutability in diseases that makes it harder to deal with retroactively instead of proactively.
The number of emergency workers lost during 9/11:
343 Fire Fighters - http://nyfd.com/9_11_wtc.html
60 Police Officers
8 EMTs and Paramedics - http://www.world-memorial.org/Tribute/EMS/medics.html
EMS Lesson's Learned from 9/11
http://www.jems.com/articles/2006/08/lessons-learned-911.html
Changes were made to the mutual aid system. Resources that had, in the event, run out or were needed sooner than they were used are now better stocked and available. Some new trainings were implemented.
More stories from 9/11 by EMS
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/mck_report/ems_response.pdf
-Due to recent terror attacks, there has been an insurgence in French xenophobia. Has this changed these policies? What is the current public opinion on the treatment of undocumented foreigner with illness?
-How do other countries manage ill undocumented foreigners? What is the international consensus in first world countries?
-What is the cut-off for illness in the cases discussed?
The authors reference main research articles and books written about the subject from the past.
They also reference epidemiological and sociological studies in supporting their mental health arguements.
Other health references, such as the DSM and Indexes are referenced in the article.
How at-risk populations came to be, how norms of citizenship lead to them, and how they propagate through Ukraine institutions such as medicine in science.
Bhutan, Haa district