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		<title>Responding to emergencies: more than ‘first aid’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the humanitarian sector come of age? What lessons can we learn from past experience? What needs to be reformed so that we can better respond to people’s health needs in emergencies? Egbert Sondorp, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, introduces this new issue of Health Exchange and invites you to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1713&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: reaching out to the most isolated people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katia Eloi Cénat is a 32-year-old Haitian nurse. After the earthquake which struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, her right arm was amputated. Katia worked as a Psychologist&#8217;s Assistant for MSF, before joining Handicap International in October 2010, where she received on-the-job training as a Rehabilitation Technician. She speaks about her experiences here. “Today we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1710&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health partnerships in a post-conflict state: a responsive way of working</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/health-partnerships-post-conflict-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Somaliland, a health partnerships programme involving a small specialist NGO (THET) and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (now part of an Academic Health Science Centre called Kings Health Partners) has supported the transition from immediate post-conflict health needs to a focus on health system strengthening. Emily Burn and Yassmin Mohamed from THET tell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1707&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the day after tomorrow: community health in Japan</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/beyond-the-day-after-tomorrow-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent aftershocks hit Japan in early 2011, health systems and staff were tested to the extreme in trying to meet people’s health needs. Ryuki Kassai, from the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, tells the story of what happened and the lessons that he and other medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1704&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural and social disasters: lessons learned by community programmes in Central America</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/natural-and-social-disasters-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[community engagement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Hamlin Zuniga, from the People’s Health Movement, reports on the devastating impact that poverty and poor infrastructure can have when disasters occur, both environmental and human made. She discusses the work of community-based health programmes in responding to health needs in these situations and what can be done better in future.  Disasters are both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1701&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental health and psychosocial care in emergencies: time for an overview?</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/mental-health-psychosocial-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The psychological and mental health needs of refugees and people in emergency situations have, in the past, been overlooked. Now recognised as important, a range of ‘psychosocial’ activities has developed, but are these interventions appropriate and effective? Willem van de Put, from HealthNet TPO, reports on the impact of these activities and whether it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1696&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban health: a 21st Century crisis</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/urban-health-2/</link>
		<comments>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/urban-health-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rapid urbanisation is leading to major health crises around the world. Many people living in urban slums are unable to access any primary health care services. In emergencies, this situation deteriorates and, with little or no health infrastructure, outbreaks of disease are to be expected. How can humanitarian actors deal with this? Ronak Patel and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1692&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health system strengthening in fragile states: DRC and Liberia</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/health-systems-strengthening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merlin believes it is important to adopt a long-term vision for health systems in fragile states from the earliest opportunity. Fiona Campbell, Head of Policy, shares Merlin’s experiences of working in different contexts to try to do this. She argues that NGO responses should aim to realise this vision and that funders should be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1688&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can we improve disaster response? Reforming the reforms</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/06/reforming-the-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005 reforms in the humanitarian sector attempted to improve global responses to disasters. What have these reforms achieved? How useful are they now? Ron Waldman addresses these questions in the light of recent humanitarian experiences in Pakistan and Haiti. He argues that three reforms have not worked as well as they were intended to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1670&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs and the cluster approach: a worthwhile investment?</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/01/ngos-and-the-cluster-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://healthexchangenews.com/2011/07/01/ngos-and-the-cluster-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cluster approach to humanitarian disasters offers NGOs the opportunity for greater engagement and influence in humanitarian action. It also presents new practical and (for some NGOs) ethical challenges which each NGO must consider when deciding to participate. Linda Doull, Director of Health and Policy at Merlin, asks: Is cluster engagement a worthwhile investment for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1497&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unlocking scientific inquiry: how the public can experience science differently</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2010/06/28/unlocking-scientific-inquiry-how-the-public-can-experience-science-differently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Dunn Public engagement with health research is about unlocking scientific inquiry rather than disseminating information. This was the key message to come out of a lunchtime event on 23 June at the Wellcome Trust, in London, to discuss the theme of the latest issue of Health Exchange: Engaging the Public in Health Research. Sîan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthexchangenews.com&#038;blog=6555503&#038;post=1469&#038;subd=healthexchangenews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public engagement with health research</title>
		<link>http://healthexchangenews.com/2010/06/23/public%c2%a0engagement%c2%a0with%c2%a0health%c2%a0research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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