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Sun, 2011-10-30 23:35 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on discussions about Vulnerable Populations.

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Tropical Diseases Surfacing More in Texas - Texas and Mexico: Sharing a Legacy of Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Sat, 2012-04-28 11:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

chron.com - by Todd Ackerman - April 27, 2012

Houston scientists have launched an attack against little-known tropical diseases, scourges of the developing world, increasingly showing up in poor areas of Texas.

The diseases, spread by all manner of blood-sucking insects, cyst-forming tapeworms and tissue-invading bacteria and viruses, typically don't kill, but they cause chronic disabilities that trap sufferers in lasting poverty.

"They may have been here all along, but now that we're looking we're seeing these diseases more and more," says Dr. Peter Hotez, a Baylor College of Medicine infectious disease professor leading the effort. "They have a huge impact - heart disease, epilepsy, mental retardation – even though they fly beneath most everyone's radar."

Looking Back on the Limits of Growth

Wed, 2012-04-11 21:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Chart Sources: Meadows, D.H., Meadows, D.L., Randers, J. and Behrens III, W.W. (1972) /  Linda Eckstein

by Mark Strauss - Smithsonian Magazine - April 2012

Recent research supports the conclusions of a controversial environmental study released 40 years ago: The world is on track for disaster. So says Australian physicist Graham Turner, who revisited perhaps the most groundbreaking academic work of the 1970s,The Limits to Growth.

Written by MIT researchers for an international think tank, the Club of Rome, the study used computers to model several possible future scenarios. The business-as-usual scenario estimated that if human beings continued to consume more than nature was capable of providing, global economic collapse and precipitous population decline could occur by 2030.

(GO TO THE SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE ARTICLE)

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

The Club of Rome

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Former Cowboy Flying Free Health Care to Those in Need

Sat, 2012-04-07 18:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CNN Heroes - by Allie Torgan - April 6, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Stan Brock made a name for himself lassoing animals on 'Wild Kingdom'

Today, he runs a nonprofit that provides free health care to people all over the world

He started a nonprofit, Remote Area Medical. Since then, the all-volunteer group has held more than 660 medical clinics worldwide, providing free health care to half a million people.

  • (CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE)

    • Public Health Workbook to Define, Locate and Reach Special, Vulnerable, and At-Risk Populations in an Emergency

    Mon, 2011-10-31 00:10 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    OVERVIEW

    Following disasters in the United States, public health and
    emergency planners have assessed human service needs and
    issues that were met or unmet before, during, and after the
    crises. A primary lesson learned in the aftermath of 9/11, the
    anthrax attacks that followed, widespread power outages in the
    Northeastern United States, hurricanes in the South, mudslides
    in the West and diseases such as SARS and West Nile Virus is that
    traditional methods of communicating health and emergency
    information often fall short of the goal of reaching everyone in
    a community. Those with the greatest needs and greatest risk
    often are outside the channels of mainstream communication.

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