Appeal For Aid Research Articles

The spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment of the vehicle drivers suffering from duodenal ulcer disease: the effectiveness and safety

To evaluate the effectiveness and the safety of the spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment of the vehicle drivers (VD) presenting with duodenal ulcer disease. A total of 67 men suffering from duodenal ulcer disease (DUD) were allocated to two groups. The patients of group 1 (n = 35) were given the courses of balneotherapy that included bromine-iodine mineral baths with a temperature of 36-37 degrees C (8-9 procedures 10-15 min long each every second day) in combination with 8-9 peloid applications to the epigastric region (temperature 38-40 degrees C for 10-15 min every second day). The patients of group 2 (n = 32) were given the similar courses of therapy that included nitric thermal mineral baths with a temperature of 36-37 degrees C (8-9 procedures 10-15 min long each every second day) in combination with 8-9 peloid applications to the epigastric region (38-40 degrees C for 10-15 min every second day). The effectiveness and safety of these balenotherapeutic procedures for the treatment of duodenal ulcer disease in the subjects of the study and control (n = 47) groups were evaluated based on the results of the routine clinical and endoscopic examination, psychological and psychophysiological tests, and the comparative analysis of medical aid appeal-ability and disability cases during twelve months. Dynamics of clinical and instrumental characteristics (subjective, objective, clinical, endoscopic, psychophysiological) suggested the improvement of the health status in 88.6% and 84.4% of the drivers with duodenum ulcer in the two study groups respectively. Some of the patients comprising group 1 showed significant negative dynamics of the operative reaction system while the patients of group 2 demonstrated the marked improvement of the professionally significant functions and properties (PSF&P). The comparative analysis of medical aid appealability, disability cases, frequency of relapses and complications revealed the favorable clinical course of duodenal ulcer disease in both groups of patients who received the spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment. The spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment in the form of nitric thermal and bromine-iodine mineral baths in combination with peloid applications proved to be highly effective and safe for the vehicle drivers with duodenal ulcer disease, its two modalities (bromine-iodine an nitric-thermal baths) being almost similarly beneficial for the patients (88.6% and 84.4% respectively). At the same time, the former modality resulted in the well apparent deterioration of the driving qualityin certain subjects which suggests the necessity of psychophysiological testing for the evaluation of the performance of the operative reaction system. It is concluded that the spa and resort-based health-promoting treatment of the vehicle drivers suffering from duodenal ulcer disease should be considered as an indispensable component of the rational medical-psychological monitoring system providing a basis for the effective health and workability management.

AB0539 Prevalence of Primary SjÖGren's Syndrome in Byelorussian Population and Secondary SjÖGren's Syndrome Frequency in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Sclerosis Patients

BackgroundThe prevalence of Sjögren's syndrome (Ss), both primary and secondary, varies from 0.1% to 0.6% in European Union countries [1]. The prevalence of Ss has been studied in Belarus neither...

Prevalence and causes of back pain syndromes in children

We present a review of literature devoted to epidemiology, and the nosological and syndromal structure of back pain in children. The data of our own study of school-aged children with back pain are presented. The structure of back pain syndromes in 105 children has been analyzed using the medical aid appealability data. The results of a comprehensive clinical and instrumental study demonstrated that the children mostly had lumbosacral pain (52.4% of cases); neck pain was observed in 29.5% of cases; while thoracic pain syndromes were observed in 18.1% of cases. Congenital defect of the connective tissue was diagnosed in 16.19% of children; congenital abnormalities of the spine, in 15.2%; scoliosis (idiopathic and secondary), in 8.6%; and Scheuermann-Mau's disease, in 5.71%. The conclusion has been made about the high prevalence of back pain in schoolchildren. Muscular tonic syndromes were prevailing in the clinical structure in children; radicular syndromes were less frequent. Musculoskeletal disorders were the main causes of back pain. Congenital defect of the connective tissue was often observed, which was revealed as functional instability of the vertebral motor segment, spondylolisthesis due to weak ligaments, and disc protrusions. Congenital abnormalities of the spine, scoliosis, and Scheuermann-Mau' disease were observed less often.

Scientific rationale for medical and preventive measures improvement in lyme disease endemic areas (based on the data of Udmurt Republic)

Aim. To provide the scientific rationale for medical and preventive measures improvement in Lyme disease endemic areas. Methods. Epidemiologic and biostatistical analysis of preventive measures holding in Lyme disease endemic areas was performed. Results. A decrease in mean longstanding prevalence of Lyme borreliosis by 31.5% was observed in the Udmurt Republic since 1999 to 2010. The tick-invaded area has increased by 25%, there was an increase in a borrelia-harboring ticks rate by 34.6%. The number of patients seeking medical aid because of the tick bites has increased by 25.4%, which can be attributed to increased social awareness. 62.5% of patients diagnosed with Lyme borreliosis were over 41 years old, the rate of unemployed patients was 61.1%. High prevalence of Lyme borreliosis in peasants living in highly endemic areas (southern part of the Udmurt Republic) related to low medical aid appealability due to tick bites and therefore untimely medical preventive measures, was registered. The prevalence of erythema migrans-free disease has increased 4.3 times. Among the Lyme borreliosis forms associated with erythema migrans, the 1.6 times increase in multiple erythema prevalence was observed, with increase by 24 times in the areas of high disease prevalence. The most severe disease course was observed in patients over 61 years old with erythema migrans-free disease. A single oral dose of doxycycline should be used for disease prevention in all patients seeking medical aid because of the tick bite. Conclusion. The offered preventive algorithm for Lyme disease allowed to prevent the disease development in 99.7% of all cases, the economical efficacy of doxycycline prophylaxis counted on 1 borrelia-harboring tick bite was estimated as 20 400 rubles.

Health care services use by patients who died from oncological diseases during the last year of their lives

Medical aid appealability of 568 people who died from oncological diseases during the last year of their lives has been analysed. The investigated cohort consisted of 288 men, 280 women at the age from 24 to 94. The statistics of various medical aid appealability is mentioned below.

Clinical and epidemiological features of the modern course of urogenital chlamydiosis

The paper has stadied the modern clinical and epidemiological features of urogenital chlamydiosis, the morbidity state, its structure, dynamics and regional characteristics. It has been found out that the basis of the disease incidence of urogenital chlamydiosis is made up of people of the most reproductive age – 20-34 years, of the male, gender whose major cause of an appeal for medical aid to a hospital is a random unprotected sexual contact. Thus, there is a need to develop and introduce into the daily practice of physicians specially elaborated programs in the field of STI counseling, which have been successfully used abroad in recent decades, and with the help of which it has been possible to achieve a reduction in the incidence of nongonococcal urethritis by 4-5 times.

Depicting distant suffering: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in the age of american empire

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the visual culture of late-nineteenthcentury humanitarianism on display in evangelical periodicals. Probing how American evangelicals exploited innovations in print journalism and photography to arouse sympathy for suffering strangers during the 1890s illumines the linkages between late-nineteenth-century pictorial humanitarianism and earlier struggles to abolish slavery, while also foreshadowing the increasing entanglement of appeals for aid with the sensationalistic mass culture that intensified after the turn of the century. Studying the visual strategies evangelicals employed to inspire empathetic engagement with distant and culturally different others in an increasingly modern, interconnected, and imperial era also exposes the ambivalent and contested nature of late-nineteenth-century humanitarianism. While American Protestants shared many assumptions about the nature of Christian charity, conflicting perspectives on the ethics of “sensational journalism,” diverging views on the spiritual integrity of American culture, and contrary opinions about the probity of American imperial expansion produced subtle but significant differences in attitudes toward almsgiving. The “collective culture of humanitarianism” that emerged during the 1890s was, I argue, shot through with tensions and fissures made visible in the diverse ways evangelicals dealt with the challenges of depicting distant suffering.

INFLUENCE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS ON WORKING CAPACITY AND MEDICAL AID APPEALABILITY OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN OMSK

Influence of weather conditions on working capacity and medical aid appealability of primary school children has been studied. The study was carried out as an experiment in natural conditions of a secondary school during 2008-2009. For the same period, medical aid appealability of the children was studied. The data of children’s sensitivity to weather factors (wind velocity, air temperature, atmospheric pressure and other) have been given. There have been proposed preventive measures for reduction of children’s meteosensitivity.

‘It's gotten a bit old, charity’: Young adults in New Zealand talk about poverty, charitable giving and aid appeals

AbstractAn extensive body of literature exists on the phenomena of poverty, charitable giving and the effectiveness of aid appeals. To date psychological research has predominantly focused on individualistic models to explain people's understandings of poverty and their charitable giving practices. Based upon a social constructionist epistemology, this study investigates how understandings of aid appeals, poverty and charitable giving are discursively produced and constructed in relation to one another through an analysis of New Zealand young adults' talk about these issues. Data were collected from three focus group discussions among pre‐existing friendship groups comprising three male and nine female students aged between 18 and 25. A brief video clip of aid appeals was used to stimulate discussion on poverty and charitable giving. Analysis of these discussions revealed three discursive themes relating to the aid appeals: local versus international need, emotional arousal and insufficient information. Drawing upon these themes the participants constructed poverty as relative or extreme, and largely explained by educational deficits. They constructed charitable giving as solicited through aid appeals, as compromised through immunity to such appeals, and as diminished through positionings of self‐help and self‐responsibility. These discursive constructions were drawn on by participants to legitimate their own non‐donor position. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Marketing and development out of poverty: introduction to the special issue

Abstract Reducing poverty by meeting the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is an interdisciplinary undertaking, in which Marketing Science logically plays a role. The papers in this special issue cover a range of methods, from traditional consumer research experiments (on images of poverty, donation behaviour) and sample surveys on the credibility of celebrity marketing, to observational studies of community values and customs (on micro‐finance or agricultural enterprise). Consumers of aid appeals, celebrity lobbying and financial services—these methods reveal—are behaviourally complex. They are infused with contradictory, competing and complementary tendencies. Underlying those different tendencies however is a common but often overlooked thread. For poverty to be significantly reduced by 2015, attention needs to be paid not only to goals, that is to task but also towards understanding the human relationships in the poverty reduction market. Marketing practise and research can contribute to poverty reduction by helping build (1) perspective‐sharing, (2) accommodation to local needs and (3) appreciation of socio‐economic and socio‐cultural behavioural systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Somalia: Aid Appeal

Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical SeriesVolume 44, Issue 3 p. 17328B-17328B Somalia: Aid Appeal First published: 14 May 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6346.2007.00863.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume44, Issue3May 2007Pages 17328B-17328B RelatedInformation

How to Date a Rothschild

David Wachtel ms 8892 in the collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (jts) is a lavishly illustrated Hebrew prayerbook produced in Italy in the late fifteenth century. Known as the Rothschild Mahzor, its recent history has been well attested in both scholarly literature and in the popular press. 2In the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed over 70,000 volumes in April 1966, the Seminary Library received many donations of books in response to its worldwide appeal for aid in replenishing its holdings. In December of the same year, Baron Edmond de Rothschild of the French branch of that illustrious family presented the mahzor to the Seminary Library.3 The manuscript had descended in the Rothschild family through Edmondo father Maurice (1878-1957) who in turn had inherited it from his own father, the famous philanthropist and patron of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (1845-1934). A handwritten note in French found in the manuscript described the contents of the mahzor and related that the manuscript had been completed on 24 Adar, in the year 252 (i.e., March-April 1492) in the city of Florence in Tuscany [...fini le 24 Adar de Vannee de la creation 252 ( =MarsAvril 1492) en la ville de Fiorimi en Toscane ]. The Seminary included this information in subsequent press releases and publications, including a partial facsimile edition that appeared in 1983. The dating of 1492 was in full agreement with Rothschild family records, which had consistently catalogued the manuscript as having been produced in that year.4 Naturally, this information seems to derive from the text of the mahzor itself, which contains, interestingly, two separate colophons (figs. 1 and 2): a draft version on folio 477V, the final leaf of the manuscript, as well as an illuminated version on folio 469v.5The texts of the two versions vary only slightly and both are extremely elaborate and extensive, each comprising a page and a half of text beginning on the recto and culminating on the verso of their respective folios. The final paragraph of the colophon, which contains the dating information, reads in part:

Central African Republic: Aid Appeal

Central African Republic: Aid Appeal

Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the humanitarian aid supply chain and discuss the extent to which certain business supply chain concepts, particularly supply chain agility, are relevant to humanitarian aid.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies elements of good practice in conventional business supply chains and applies them to the humanitarian aid supply chain, making use of published practice‐based literature and web sites associated with humanitarian aid. Particular emphasis is placed on the concept of “agility” in supply chain management. A model of an agile supply chain for humanitarian aid is developed.FindingsHumanitarian supply chains have similarities with business supply chains, but there are significant differences. Many humanitarian supply chains have a short and unstable existence with an inadequate link between emergency aid and longer‐term developmental aid. Unlike many business supply chains, typical emergency aid appeals assign inventory to a particular destination at the supply chain source.Practical implicationsThis research note is a starting‐point for empirical studies to test the agile humanitarian supply chain model.Originality/valueThis paper seeks to integrate humanitarian aid practice with concepts in the academic supply chain literature. In particular, proposes that humanitarian donors need convincing of the value of supply chain processes.

Edward Dominic Fenwick Papers 1803-1832: Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop (review)

Reviewed by: Edward Dominic Fenwick Papers 1803-1832: Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop M. Edmund Hussey Edward Dominic Fenwick Papers 1803-1832: Founding American Dominican Friar and Bishop. Edited and annotated by Luke Tancrell O.P. (New York: The Dominican Province of St. Joseph. Distributed by Dominican Publications, 487 Michigan Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC 20017-1585. 2005. Pp. 428. $60.00.) Although the outline of Edward Dominic Fenwick's life is quite clear, yet his quiet and unassuming character has left him a somewhat elusive person. He was born at his family's estate in rural Maryland, the son of Ignatius Fenwick, a gentleman-farmer, and Sarah Taney, both members of that relatively small but extremely influential group of Anglo-American Catholics descended from the settlers of Lord Baltimore's predominantly Catholic colony. Edward studied at the English Dominican College in Bornheim, Belgium, and was ordained a priest in 1793. After teaching in Belgium and England for eleven years, he returned to America in 1804 to establish the Dominican Order in this country. In 1806 Bishop Carroll sent Fenwick to Kentucky, where the need for priests was great and where Fenwick's family inheritance enabled him to establish St. Rose Priory. In 1816 Fenwick moved from the now well established St. Rose Priory in Kentucky to Somerset, Ohio, where he established his Ohio base. In 1819 Bishop Benedict Flaget of Bardstown, Kentucky, wrote to Rome that the State of Ohio had three permanent congregations and from 250 to 300 Catholic families scattered throughout the State and that two Dominican priests, Rev. Mr. Fenwick and his nephew, Rev. Mr. Nicholas Young, were serving them. Bishop Flaget went on to recommend that Ohio be made a separate diocese with its own bishop. On June 19, 1821, documents establishing the diocese of Cincinnati and appointing Edward D. Fenwick its first bishop were issued in Rome. Eleven years later, during his annual visitation of his diocese, Fenwick fell victim to the cholera epidemic and died in a hotel room in Wooster, Ohio. By the time John Martin Henni arrived from nearby Canton to give his bishop the last sacraments, he found him already buried because of the great fear of contagion. In 1920 Vincent F. O'Daniel, O.P., in the as yet only biography of Fenwick, quite ably added many details to this brief outline. Now Luke Tancrell, O.P., has collected all of Fenwick's extant papers in a substantial work that will allow Fenwick to become better appreciated and will enable historians to write more [End Page 132] comprehensive studies of the Church in the Midwest and of the Dominican Order in the United States. The papers which Tancrell has collected are mostly letters, including reports about his diocese and religious order to members of the Roman Curia, appeals for aid to members of the European royalty and nobility, and many letters to other American bishops concerning pastoral questions and an exchange of news about their dioceses. The papers also contain other documents, including pastoral letters, land deeds, promissory notes, and Fenwick's Last Will and Testament. Following the Table of Contents, Tancrell provides a brief synopsis of each paper. Introductory essays provide valuable commentary. The footnotes are clear and informative. Unfortunately, constraints of space required that documents written in other languages are given here only in Tancrell's English translation. This work should become an important resource for American Catholic historians. M. Edmund Hussey Hilliard, Ohio Copyright © 2006 The Catholic University of America Press

The Lynching of Persons of Mexican Origin or Descent in the United States, 1848 to 1928

The lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent has been largely over-looked by historians of American mob violence. This essay offers the first attempt to construct a systematic set of data on the subject. The authors contend that between 1848 and 1928, mobs lynched at least 597 Mexicans. Traditional interpretations of western violence cannot account for this phenomenon. The actual causes of mob violence against Mexicans were several-fold: race and the legacy of Anglo American expansion, economic competition, and diplomatic tensions between Mexico and the United States. Throughout this era, Mexicans formulated numerous means of resistance against Anglo mobs. These included armed self-defense, public protest, the establishment of mutual defense organizations, and appeals for aid to the Mexican government. The central aim of this essay is to broaden the scholarly discourse on lynching by moving beyond the traditional limitations of the black/white paradigm. Placing the experience of Mexicans into the history of lynching expands our understanding of the causes of mob violence and the ways in which individuals and groups sought to resist lynching and vigilantism. The essay is based on numerous archival sources in both Spanish and English. These include diaries, letters, memoirs, folk culture, newspapers, government documents, and diplomatic correspondence.

Liberian aid appeal launched as medical crisis deepens

As the humanitarian crisis in Liberia spirals, the United Kingdom has launched a multimedia emergency aid appeal. Coordinated by the UK disasters emergency committee (DEC), money raised from the Liberia crisis appeal will support 11 of the United Kingdom's best known charities and allow them to scale up their aid work. Brendan Gormley, chief executive of the committee said, “The appalling conditions caused by the climax of the bloody civil war in Liberia will lead to widespread deaths …

Song of War

The international community has re-discovered Afghanistan after ignoring the civil war that has raged there since 1992. The reason for this is yet another war, this time waged by the United States against the ruling Taliban and their guest Osama bin Laden. War fought in the name of peace is an unconvincing slogan to many, particularly those who reap the results of conflict generation after generation. Women and children in Afghanistan know better than anyone else what war has brought them, and their stories are cautionary tales to those who believe in the healing powers of more violence and forced displacement. When Hafeeza spoke to us about her experience of war and the Taliban from a refugee camp in Peshawar, it was in the year 2000, when the world's interest in Afghanistan had slipped to its lowest point ever. The un international appeal for humanitarian aid brought in so little money that it embarrassed them to announce the figures. Pakistan had officially declared that it too was tired of supporting millions of destitute refugees when two decades had gone by with no hope of improvement. It had sealed the border with Afghanistan, turning back the new waves of drought-cum-war refugees at the border and rounding up illegal entrants to send them home. Haifa million new refugees came into Pakistan that year. The Pakistan government refused them refugee status and asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr) to set up the new refugee camps inside Afghanistan instead. At that point the tale of Hafeeza proved that the condition of new refugees from Afghanistan was urgent and serious, meriting immediate international action and a more sympathetic consideration from the Pakistan government. While the latest Afghan war has certainly focussed international attention on the plight of war victims, nonetheless humanitarian assistance is still falling short of targets and the Pakistan government is still refusing to open its borders to accept the displaced. But

From Cambrai to Woolton: Lancashire’s First Female Religious House

Refugees, displaced persons and enemy aliens, either individually or in groups, are, regrettably, well known to the early twenty-first century. Resettlement arrangements, counselling and aid appeals are also well-used practices. In May 1795 sixteen women, many elderly, reached Woolton in south Lancashire three weeks after leaving France. They were homeless, virtually destitute and had suffered the trauma and hardship of incarceration for eighteen months in a French prison. The women had little control over their immediate destination, were dependent on the philanthropy of others, and within a few short weeks were at work teaching in a school to earn their livelihoods. They also had to live within a neighbourhood totally unfamiliar with nuns and religious communities. The Benedictine convent of Our Lady of Consolation from Cambrai in northern France had been relocated to Woolton.

“An unprecedented influx”: Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada

During the dreadful famine summer of 1847, as thousands of indigent Irish streamed from floating coffin ships to meet their fate in the cities and countryside of British North America, growing number of people vociferously expressed fears that had been simmering for well over decade. Disquieted members of Canada's House of Assembly, for example, unanimously agreed to address Queen Victoria with their apprehensions concerning the unprecedented influx of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland in state of destitution, starvation, and disease, unparalleled in the history of this province. [1] Genuine concern for the condition of the immigrants was swiftly tempered, and then virtually disappeared, as native-born and immigrant Protestants considered the possible ramifications that the accelerated introduction of large numbers of Irish Catholics would have on British North American society. Within decade, the same Toronto newspaper that had once greeted the famine migration with humanitarian appeals for aid had hardened its opinion into nativist resolve to bar further Irish-Catholic emigration entirely. In response to news from the United States that thousands of unenlightened and bigoted Romanists might slip northward across the border, the Globe predicted a great calamity, dangerous to our civil and religious liberty, calamity which every true patriot, Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, should endeavour, by all means in his power, to avert. [2] The first clear episode of nativism--the emphatic rejection of immigrants because of their foreign identification--in pre-Confederation Canadian history was triggered by the events of the late 1840s. Strikingly, this response to the famine Irish, which was fueled by mixture of Protestant anxiety over the global spread of Roman Catholicism and an antipathy to Celtic peoples, has to date received little historiographical attention. [3] Yet the Canadian experience coincided with nativism in the United States, more widely recognized phenomenon that became an integral component of nationalism and political-party formation. Canada's nativism may even have matched America's in fervor during the mid-nineteenth century, although its manifestations were certainly different. This study seeks to identify and explain the nativist response to the famine Irish who made their way to Canada. British North American nativism was complex and varied, depending on economic, demographic, and social themes in various provinces, yet its disparate elements may be characterized by several interrelated themes. The first might be understood as critical mass dynamic, which suggests that dramatic number of Irish-Catholic immigrants rapidly surpassed an acceptable threshold when they settled among or near native-born and immigrant Protestants. The international context of anti-Catholicism, pervasive impulse in the Western world of the nineteenth century, represents another basic principle at work. The third addresses chronology, suggesting confluence of events as this immigrant cohort altered and was in turn shaped by British North America's political, economic, and social landscapes. Nativism was one of the tremors that rippled across North America as powerful ethnoreligious plates collid ed in the mid-nineteenth century. This event will be best understood by first considering the theoretical and historiographical contexts of and then by focusing on the themes just described. Nativism has been recurrent social and political force in the last two centuries of American history. John Higham, who concentrated his energies on American movements, defined nativism as the intense opposition to an internal minority on the ground of its foreign... connections, or defensive type of nationalism. Though Higham cautioned that the word nativism, of nineteenth-century derivation, over time assumed pejorative connotations, his definition provides durable intellectual device for analyzing host population's reaction to immigrants. …