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Adapt and Overcome : The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic
Get PDFIn my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the history of emergency medicine as a specialty to put its recent emergence into context. Subsequently, I will discuss the opioid epidemic, its origin, and various causes that have contributed to its relevance and significance in public health. Then, I will examine data from emergency departments throughout the United States to track performance. After, I will describe opioid overdose cases from emergency departments throughout the country and strategies they have implemented to combat the epidemic. I will then discuss the relevance of social determinants of health. Last, I will conclude by tying in my thesis argument with the COVID-19 pandemic
other voices: storie e esperienze delle donne migranti e straniere in Italia
Get PDFThe influx of migrants into modern day Italy created a new literary genre, stories of migration and acculturation. Women migrants are excluded on two levels from the canon, being women and being migrants. This series of translations uses a sexual difference and intersectional feminist frameworks to help amplify the otherized voices of female migrants or second-generation writers with political undercurrents
Storytelling’s capacity for individual and collective healing: Vassar voices as latent commons
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Education from Perón to Videla to now: how education policy and curricula shaped national consciousness in Argentina during three periods of leadership
No full textWhen Global Health Emergency Meets Chronic Emergency: Parsing Out (Inter)National and Local Optics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Tenth Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak
Get PDFThis thesis examines community distrust as it has manifested in local responses to the national and international emergency response to the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u27s (DRC) tenth Ebola virus disease outbreak in the country\u27s war-torn east; in doing so it seeks to situate acts of resistance in locals\u27 lived experiences with the state and international community. Lack of trust in epidemic responses is not a new issue, and was thrown into sharp relief by the Ebola riposte in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia amidst the West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014-16: affected populations displayed “resistance” toward a medical humanitarian response comprised of international forces that historically enslaved, colonized and exploited them, and domestic state military forces representing extensions of a corrupt and violent government. While lessons were learned from this outbreak as to the importance of engaging with local communities and conditions from the outset of an outbreak response and acknowledging the consequences of long-term neglect of social determinants of health, local distrust has resurfaced and led to considerable barriers to Ebola containment efforts in the emergency medical response in the eastern DRC. Seeking to work against narratives perpetuated by the media which have depicted resistance in West Africa and the eastern Congo as signs of the irrationality and dangerous nature of Africans which hamper disease containment efforts, this thesis relies upon primary data collection via interviews with scholars, and practitioners on-the-ground in the DRC or in previous outbreaks, as well as surveys of affected communities to contextualize opposition to the Ebola response. Primary data gleaned from these sources which illuminate the voices of impacted populations, along with secondary research providing historical background of the eastern DRC and theoretical insights, helps reveal the particular conditions of chronic, lived emergency in the east: genocide at the hands of the Belgian King Leopold\u27s imperial Congo, subsequent Belgian colonization, neocolonization under the Western-backed dictator Mobutu, 10 years of war leading to the greatest number of deaths sine WWII, and continual resource pillage and extraction by armed groups known to commit routine, murderous attacks against civilians. This thesis explores the disjuncture between an externally imposed notion of “emergency” in the form of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), belonging to the international community’s lexicon of global health security, and a local, lived notion of crisis and insecurity in the eastern provinces. The project includes policy recommendations to better prioritize the voices of communities and their needs in future emergency health responses, and also facilitate the development of conditions in the country and the eastern region which render it less vulnerable to future Ebola outbreaks and in need of external medical aid
