or one big earthquake. Unfortunately, in the case of Haiti, it was the latter. In fact, it was the strongest earthquake in that part of the world in the last 200 years.
Dear EarthTalk: What are the primary environmental concerns in the aftermath of the big earthquake in Haiti?Dover, Frank
Many patients are presenting to medical clinics in Haiti with blood pressures of 200/115 who have never been on medication or who no longer have medication available following the earthquake. Many of the medical clinics throughout Haiti are currently without facilities to run blood work, ...
The paper investigates discursive devices employed in newspaper articles on the 2010 Haiti earthquake to represent the First World, mainly the USA, and the Third World Haiti, with regard to ascription of blame for the catastrophe. It reveals that van Dijk's ideological square of US versus THEM ...
We became involved in a collaborative effort to improve nephrology care in Haiti after participating in the emergency response to the 2010 earthquake. The focus of this ongoing project is overcoming barriers to implementation with the goal of improving training and resources for Haitian health-care ...
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in donor aid flowing to Haiti over the past few decades, and despite agriculture being the primary source of income for at least 60% of Haitians [4], the RGA [19], conducted in 2008 to 2009, prior to the great Haitian earthquake of 2010, ...
This report aims to provide a better understanding of a specific niche response, the ECD response, in post-earthquake Haiti 2010. It concentrates on the UNICEF ECD Kit, a dominating ECD response, examining the efficiency, effectiveness, impact, relevance or appropriateness, sustainability and the ov...
Study of member agencies' responses to the earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. weak governance.While recognising the effects of the disaster on the whole country, this study is required to focus on the impact within urban areas, and to ask, what can be learnt for international NGOs for ...
In 2011, as part of post-earthquake assistance from Cuba to Haiti, the Cuban medical brigade reported the distribution and biological aspects of the most well-known mosquito vectors of Haiti [35,36,42]; this report showed a wide distribution ofA. albimanusacross Haiti. In 2013, a study look...
This documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care in post-earthquake Haiti even with unprecedented availability of free healthcare servic... AM Klasing - 《New York New York Human Rights Watch》 被引量: 15发表: 2011年 The effects of maternal weight and age on pre-eclampsia...