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The program provides an undergraduate degree or graduate certificate.

The article contains many referneces mostly for its diagrams and data, that pull information from government studies. Unfortunately there is not a Bibliogrpahy in the reading, but I am assuming that it would contain many government sources.

The study looks at the physical and mental health profiles of prisoners, and incarceration as both a health risk and health opportunity. This seems like a new way of studying the issue, as I've heard of studies only looking at the race of prisoners in the U.S. 

The article discusses the need for emergency medical responders to be able to have a healthy and productive de-brief session. This is imparitive because, as the article discusses, responders are one of the first individuals to be affected by disasters because their diverse involvement in the clean up. 

Ethnographic research, archival and field work in the affected countries over several years, data cited from other research articles, and collaborated with scientists in atomic energy/ radiation.

This article emphasizes that in existing research which concerns violence against health care workers in politically and culturally complex environments. This lack of research is primarily noted to be caused by the discrepancies between public opinion and government opinion. The suggestion put forth by the article is that aid organizations make their data easily accessible and are provided with greater funding when researching or assisting with violence against health workers.

The main findings of the article are the narratives of the people suffering from epilepsy can follow common "plots"; they have a starting point, cause, and the ongoing struggle with their condition and looking for a treatment/ cure. The narratives are given by the subjects, and can be interpreted differently by each reader. The actual patient experience of illness is subjective and can have social, cultural, and religious aspects tied to them.

This article was written by Miriam Ticktin a Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Zolberg Institute. She received her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University and an MA in English Literature from Oxford. Her research focusses on the intersections of the anthropology of medicine and science, and law.

The article addresses the public health inequities caused by for-profit ambulance agencies, which can put low-income families in a worse situation when they bill outrageously and/or sue their patients after sometimes providing sub-par or negligent treatment. Also shows the poor examples of emergency response when first responders are delayed due to understaffing or don't have the drugs/ equipment to adequately treat patients ("hospital shopping" done by desparate ambulance agencies). 

The app is used from people with widely ranging medical backgrounds from EMT to Doctor and so many in between and outside of that scope.