Outbreaks of infectious diseases have increasingly led to crises in recent decades. These crises are often very complex. There are many disciplines involved, the effects extend internationally, there is pressure, there are scientific uncertainties and there is talk of changing social perceptions. In the past, e.g. the outbreak of SARS, has shown that in crisis, it is not sufficient to publish...

During disasters, aid organizations often respond using the resources of local volunteer members from the affected population who are not only inexperienced, but who additionally take on some of the more psychologically and physically difficult tasks in order to provide support for their community. Although not much empirical evidence exists to justify the claim, it is thought that preparation,...

Overlevenden van concentratiekamp Ravensbrueck hebben hun herinneringen 65 jaar lang uitgedragen aan een breed publiek. Daarmee vestigden ze een beeld van het kamp dat door de jaren heen nagenoeg onveranderd bleef. Het was voor hen een houvast in een veranderend Europa. Uiteenlopende groepen vulden deze onwrikbare herinnering echter aan en gaven hieraan steeds opnieuw betekenis. Onwrikbare...

Since a substantial and still growing part of trauma victims concern people from ethnic minority groups, the key questions for many mental health care professionals nowadays are: Are the regular trauma models and evidencebased interventions effective for affected ethnic minority groups? And which specific ingredients in intercultural trauma therapy appear to be culturally sensitive? In this paper...

This unique volume presents the experience of 37 U.S. military nurses sent to the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of war to care for the injured and dying. The personal and professional challenges they faced, the difficulties they endured, the dangers they overcame, and the consequences they grappled with are vividly described from deployment to discharge. In mobile surgical field hospitals and...

In this thesis we investigate improvements in efficiency of wireless communication networks, based on methods that are fundamentally different from the principles that form the basis of state-of-the-art technology. The first difference is that broadcast and superposition are exploited instead of reducing the wireless medium to a network of point-to-point links. The second difference is that the...

This article examines the narratives of suffering expressed by a group of South Asian immigrant survivors of domestic violence who accessed a mental health clinic in New York City. These accounts illustrate women's own perceptions of their suffering and symptoms and provide a window into the South Asian immigrant community's ideologies and moral domains regarding gender, violence, and sickness,...