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Contextualizing effective use of health information systems in humanitarian setting: The role of transparent interaction

Vila-Pozo MM
2024-05-14 • Pediatric Anesthesia • ISCRAM 2024
2024-05-14 • Pediatric Anesthesia • ISCRAM 2024
Humanitarian organizations strive for efficient and effective interventions, with information systems playing a crucial role. However, integrating data collection and processes within th...
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Review

Imperfect relief: Challenges to the impartiality and identity of humanitarian action

DuBois M, Healy S
2024-03-25 • International Review of the Red Cross
2024-03-25 • International Review of the Red Cross
One of the four core humanitarian principles, impartiality's substantive ethical and deeply operational nature directs aid agencies to seek and deliver aid on the basis of non-discrimina...
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Commentary

Involving older people in the preparedness, response, and recovery phases in humanitarian emergencies: a theoretical framework on ageism, epistemic injustice, and participation

van Boetzelaer E, van de Kamp J, Keating P, Sharma SK, Pellecchia U,  et al.
2024-01-01 • The Lancet Healthy Longevity
2024-01-01 • The Lancet Healthy Longevity
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Letter

Gaza, 9 years on: a humanitarian catastrophe

Musa AM, Crawley J, Haj-Hassan TA, Inglis R, Maynard N
2023-11-30 • Lancet
2023-11-30 • Lancet
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Commentary

What cannot be mitigated or adapted to, will be suffered. Loss and damage in health and humanitarian terms

Schwerdtle PN, Devine C, Guevara M, Cornish S, Christou C,  et al.
2023-09-09 • The Journal of Climate Change and Health
2023-09-09 • The Journal of Climate Change and Health
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Protocol

Responsible exit of humanitarian aid agencies at the end of programmes: a scoping review protocol

Bahati D, Sy H, Kalhor A, Marchal B
2023-08-23 • BMJ Open
2023-08-23 • BMJ Open
INTRODUCTION
In humanitarian settings, aid agencies are constantly challenged by difficult decisions such as when and how to terminate aid without harming the aid recipients, local i...
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Review

Ethics, climate change and health – a landscape review

Sheather J, Littler K, Singh JA, Wright K
2023-08-14 • Wellcome Open Research
2023-08-14 • Wellcome Open Research
Anthropogenic climate change is unequivocal, and many of its physical health impacts have been identified, although further research is required into the mental health and wellbeing effe...
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Commentary

Elderly people in humanitarian crises, a forgotten population: A call for action

van Boetzelaer E, Browne JL, Vaid S, Pellecchia U, van de Kamp J,  et al.
2023-07-17 • PLOS Global Public Health
2023-07-17 • PLOS Global Public Health
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Research

Health trajectories of international humanitarian aid workers: growth mixture modelling findings from a prospective cohort study

de Jong K, Martinmäki SE, te Brake H, Komproe IH, Kleber RJ,  et al.
2023-05-17 • BJPsych Open
2023-05-17 • BJPsych Open
BACKGROUND
Most staff stay healthy during humanitarian work, although some worsen. Mean scores on health indicators may be masking individual participants struggling with health...
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Commentary

A humanitarian’s perspective of critical care in conflict zones

Lee JS, Godard A
2023-04-12 • Intensive Care Medicine
2023-04-12 • Intensive Care Medicine
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Research

Incidence and severity of sexual harassment, and its impact on mental health in a cohort of international humanitarian field-workers

Martinmäki SE, de Jong K, Komproe IH, Boelen PA, Kleber RJ
2023-02-07 • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
2023-02-07 • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
To date, there have been no cohort studies of sexual harassment incidence and its relation to mental health within humanitarian field-workers. Research among numerous occupations suggest...
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Commentary

Humanitarian paediatrics: A statement of purpose

Martinez Garcia D, Amsalu R, Harkensee C, Janet S, Kadir A,  et al.
2022-12-30 • PLOS Global Public Health
2022-12-30 • PLOS Global Public Health
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Commentary

Guilt by association: Restricting humanitarian assistance in the name of counterterrorism

Marin AP, Ali R
2021-10-13 • International Review of the Red Cross
2021-10-13 • International Review of the Red Cross
In certain contexts associated with counterterrorism, some governments and military forces have stigmatized civilians, not because of the acts they perform but rather from loose associat...
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Video

Speculative futures: Stretching the frontiers of humanitarian thinking

Tiller S, Krishnan A, Guevara M
2020-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Innovation
2020-05-20 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Innovation
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Commentary

Research ethics review in humanitarian contexts: the experience of the independent Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières

Schopper D, Upshur R, Matthys F, Singh JA, Bandewar SS,  et al.
2009-07-28 • PLOS Medicine
2009-07-28 • PLOS Medicine
Doris Schopper and colleagues describe the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review, and discuss challenging e...
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Commentary

Oops, what about ethics?

Oladimeji O, Isaakidis P, Zachariah R, Hinderaker SG, Koghali M,  et al.
2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
Ethics approval of research studies is essential for the protection and rights of study subjects, whether this is for prospective research or record reviews. This article shares a painfu...
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Letter

Dilemmas in access to medicines: a humanitarian perspective

Smith JS, Aloudat T
2017-03-11 • Lancet
2017-03-11 • Lancet
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Video

The storm and the flood: Humanitarian responsibilities and COVID-19

Healy S, Spiegel PB, Dahab M
2020-05-13 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Research
2020-05-13 • MSF Scientific Days International 2020: Research
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Research

Ethical guidance or epistemological injustice? The quality and usefulness of ethical guidance for humanitarian workers and agencies

Sheather J, Apunyo R, DuBois M, Khondaker R, Noman A,  et al.
2022-03-16 • BMJ Global Health
2022-03-16 • BMJ Global Health
This paper explores the quality and usefulness of ethical guidance for humanitarian aid workers and their agencies. We focus specifically on public health emergencies, such as COVID-19. ...
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Commentary

Caring for Rohingya refugees with diphtheria and measles: on the ethics of humanity

Asgary R
2020-03-01 • Annals of Family Medicine
2020-03-01 • Annals of Family Medicine
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees arrived in Bangladesh within weeks in fall 2017, quickly forming large settlements without any basic support. Humanitarian first responders pro...