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A critical exploration of the concept of equity.

EnviroInjustice Researchers

Enviornmental injustice researcher's program pages.

Environmental Injustice Concepts

Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice.

Environmental Injustice Reading

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Collections of readings that examine and conceptualize environmental injustice.

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Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environments

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

http://reliefweb.int/report/world/attacks-humanitarian-aid-workers-five…

http://www.msf.org/en/article/kunduz-updated-death-toll-%E2%80%93-42-pe…

https://aidworkersecurity.org/about

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed?

Google Scholar has this article being cited 22 times in various works. The topic pool focuses on the effects of humanitarian aid on groups that are considered to be in the gender based minority.

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In what situations/settings would the system be difficult to work with?

Places in third world countries where phone access may not be a prominent and thus conditions more closely related to those distinct areas.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed?

This has been referenced in "Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi" by R Hindmarsh.

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the article or report?

"Does our clinical practice acknowledge what we already know—namely, that social and environmental forces will limit the effectiveness of our treatments?"

"This means working at multiple levels, from “distal” interventions—performed late in the process, when patients are already sick—to “proximal” interventions—trying to prevent illness through efforts such as vaccination or improved water and housing quality."

"Yet risk has never been determined solely by individual behavior: susceptibility to infection and poor outcomes is aggravated by social factors such as poverty, gender inequality, and racism."

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

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What other organizations does this organization interact and collaborate with? What organizations does this organization criticize or distance itself from? How is collaboration conceptualized and talked about?

This group works in varying social ecologies therefore requiring it to be very flexible and prepared for the any possible social ecology it may encounter. It can range from sparse medical facilities in Chad in which they have to set up working clinics and shelter for individuals to war-stricken Yemen in which Safe health locations are key to adequate healthcare.