Medicine Infected by Politics: The American Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934

This article discusses the impact that politics and social beliefs have on the humanitarian goals of medicine, using the American occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) as a backdrop. First, the article explains how the United States intervened in Haiti in order to maintain its political hegemony in the Caribbean, develop Haiti as a new market for American investors, and civilize the supposedly backwards Haiti. Previously, historians have recognized the important role that medicine played during the occupation, but this article highlights how U.S. political, economic, and cultural motives distorted the practice of medicine in Haiti. For instance, from 1915-1922, the Americans established martial law and sought to eliminate resistance against the U.S. presence in Haiti. American brutality in these early years led to the selective practice of medicine, as the Americans only treated Haitian patients when it served to protect the health of U.S. Marines or pacify the Haitian populace. Thus, under the military, medicine\u27s goals morphed from patient health and well-being to order and control via health. Following the reorganization of the occupation, medicine sought to justify the continuation of U.S. control over Haiti. The widespread treatment of Haitian diseases served as wonderful propaganda for the Americans, but in reality, the aims of medicine were to confer the benefits of civilization upon Haiti and revitalize the nation\u27s economy via a healthy workforce. Thus, this article demonstrates the susceptibility of medicine to political and social aims

Assessment of Haiti’s electricity sector

INTRODUCTION: This report summarizes the current state of the electricity sector in Haiti, to form a knowledge base from which to subsequently evaluate options for how best to increase electricity access in Haiti. Accordingly, this report summarizes the results of an extensive review of the publicly-available information on the electricity sector in Haiti, supplemented by targeted interviews with selected individuals known to be knowledgeable about electricity in Haiti based on their recent involvement in assessing the sector or in pursuing/supporting development opportunities. [TRUNCATED

It Takes an Instigator, Vision and Passion, Promoting Health In Haiti: Developing a Partnership Between an Impoverished Nation and an NGO to Develop Advanced Practice Nursing Education, A Case Study

Four nurse educators went to Haiti after the 2012 earthquake to help rebuild the School of Nursing in Port-au-Prince. They were alarmed by the low level of health care in Haiti. Most people have no care, and those that do are treated by nurses who are not trained to do so. This article details the steps the nurses went through to start a family nurse practitioner program in Haiti to address the need for primary care and discusses how they created the partnerships necessary to start such an innovative program at the University of Haiti

PEROKOK AKTIF DAN PASIF DENGAN KADAR GLUKOSA DARAH

Latar Belakang: Penyakit Tidak Menular merupakan penyebab utama kematian di dunia dan yang penyebab kematian terbanyak di Indonesia. Salah satu Penyakit Tidak Menular adalah Diabetes mellitus yaitu suatu keadaan kadar glukosa dalam darah lebih dari normal. Keadaan ini sebagai akibat ketidak mampuan insulin dalam bekerja atau karena keterbatasan sekresi insulin. Nikotin yang terkandung dalam rokok dapat menyebabkan resistensi reseptor insulin sehingga insulin tidak dapat bekerja dengan baik dan nikotin yang beredar dalam darah memberikan efek gangguan sekresi insulin. Resistensi reseptor insulin dan gangguan sekresi insulin mengakibatkan peningkatan kadar glukosa dalam darah kalau terjadi secara terus menerus menimbulkan penyakit Diabetes Melitus. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh asap rokok terhadap kadar glukosa dalam darah. Metode: Penelitian observasional korelasi analitik, desain crossectional. Jumlah sampel 28 meliputi 14 sampel perokok aktif dan 14 sampel perokok pasif yang memenuhi kriteria inklusi dan ekslusi. Data dianalisis menggunakan uji Pearson Product Moment dengan tingkat kepercayaan 95%. Hasil: Uji Pearson Product Moment perokok aktif dan pasif dengan kadar glukosa (sig 1-tailed) : 0,047 < 0,05 dengan koefisien korelasi 0.323 artinya ada hubungan antara perokok dan kadar glukosa dalam darah. Kesimpulan: Ada hubungan signifikan antara remaja perokok aktif dan perokok pasif dengan kadar glukosa dalam darah. Kata kunci : perokok aktif, perokok pasif, glukos

Haiti Earthquake January 2010: What Actions and Policies Can the Government of Haiti Implement to Improve Emergency Management Response

In 2010, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake that destroyed much of its capital city and the governmental offices that should have guided the response to the disaster. This research focuses on how Haiti can benefit from the Caribbean Disaster Management Agency’s standards for disaster resilience as it works to recover from the earthquake. Unfortunately, Haiti has long been dependent on assistance from non-governmental organizations due to its extreme poverty; its recovery is complicated by the need to integrate disaster assistance and on-going economic and social assistance into its development of a more resilient society

Why didn't scientists predict the earthquakes?

The earthquakes that caused devastation in Haiti on 12 January 2010 and in Chile on 27 February 2010 have reminded us once more of the tremendous destructive power of nature. The magnitude 7 Haiti earthquake is believed to have claimed 230,000 lives; in contrast current estimates of fatalities caused by the magnitude 8.8 Chilean earthquake stand at less than 1,000, even though the earthquake released 500 times the energy of the Haiti event. However, in both countries there has been destruction of homes, businesses and infrastructure on a huge scale, creating a human and economic catastrophe that will take years to recover from

A Critical Review of the US State Department's 2015 Progress Report on Haiti

This review, published jointly by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Haiti Advocacy Working Group, looks at the US State Department's annual reports on US assistance to Haiti mandated under the 2014 Assessing Progress in Haiti Act. The review analyzes the various components of the reports and identifies significant omissions and deficiencies, including incomplete data, a failure to link projects and outcomes, and a failure to adequately identify mistakes and lessons learned.In addition, the review shares feedback from Haitian civil society groups and makes recommendations on how the US Agency for International Development and the State Department can improve future progress reports

Long-term impacts of tropical storms and earthquakes on human population growth in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Since the 18th century, Haiti and the Dominican Republic have experienced similar natural forces, including earthquakes and tropical storms. These countries are two of the most prone of all Latin American and Caribbean countries to natural hazards events, while Haiti seems to be more vulnerable to natural forces. This article discusses to what extent geohazards have shaped both nation&#x27;s demographic developments. The data show that neither atmospheric nor seismic forces that directly hit the territory of Haiti have significantly affected the country&#x27;s population growth rates and spatial population densities. Conversely, since the 1950s more people were exposed to atmospheric hazards, in particular, in regions which historically experienced higher storm frequencies

Early Signals on Mobile Philanthropy: Is Haiti the Tipping Point?

The following paper includes findings from a national survey of US charitable donors that was conducted the week after the earthquake in Haiti occurred and during intense fundraising efforts for emergency relief. This data indicates that mobile philanthropy, while not universally accepted is gaining traction with younger generations, and the text-to-gift efforts around Haiti could be the tipping point for greater adoption