Institutional Response to Crisis

The Institutional Response to Crisis panel focuses on analyzing and understanding institutions and the crises they might face, more specifically the limits and opportunities for preparing for a crisis, responding to crises, and the long-term consequences of crises. The panelists provide both theoretical analyses and specific, personal experiences to discuss these points. As panel moderator Noah Pickus, the director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University stated in his opening: Crises are no rare thing in human history and it seems as if of late we turn around everyday and there\u27s another one that stares us in the face. Questions/themes/discussion topics Should institutions respond to crises? How do institutions respond to crises? Response to crisis as a springboard for long term change within an institution Leadership opportunities within a crisi

Alberta Occupational Medicine Newsletter: September 1987

Editiorial Comments -- New Guidelines from Alberta Community and Occupational Health -- Compensation Appeals Forum Call for Papers, Case Comments, Letters, Etc. -- Adverse Health Effects from Industrial and Environmental Cadmium -- Upcoming Conferences -- The Case of the Phantom Driver -- Degenerative Spinal Disease and Compensatio

Alberta Occupational Medicine Newsletter: Summer 1985

Editorial Comments -- Notice Board- Upcoming Meetings and Conferences -- From the Journals: Cardiovascular Diseases - The Role of Occupations -- Occupational (Industrial) Hygiene, Its Role in Occupational Health Part II -- Rash Statements- 7 -- Silica and Cancer -- Spondylolisthesis- Etiology and Pathogenesis 'State of the Art

Alberta Occupational Medicine Newsletter: Winter 1986

Editorial Comments -- Work and Well Being 1987 -- Change in Medical Services Branch -- Letters to the Editor -- The Effects of Vibrating Tools on the Hand and Arm -- New Guidelines from Alberta Community and Occupational Health -- WBC and Occupational Health Professionals: Expectations -- Product Evaluation: A Kit for Creating the Ergonomically Sound Work Station -- Tuberculosis in A Rural Auxilliary Hospital -- Influenza Vaccination Recommendations for Health Care Workers: Attitudes and Compliance -- Upcoming Conference

Alberta Occupational Medicine Newsletter: Summer 1986

Editorial Comments -- Publications on Guidelines From Alberta Community and Occupational Health -- Upcoming Conference Announcement (Calgary, November '86) -- Infection Control Apsects of Occupational Health Programs in Health Care Facilites -- Rubella Immunity and the Health Care Workplace -- Indoor Air Quality in Health Care Facilities -- Rash Statements -

Alberta Occupational Medicine Newsletter: Spring 1985

Editorial Comments -- The Patient's Occupational History May Aid in Diagnosis -- Notice Board- Upcoming Meetings and Conferences -- Occupational (Industrial) Hygiene, Its Role in Occupational Health -- Perspectives: Hospital Occupational Health -- Rash Statements - VI Computer Contact Dermatitis -- Employee Assistance Programs - Now There is Somewhere to Turn -- Health Monitoring in the Workplace -- WHay does the Workers' Compensation Board have to Consider "Hepatitis B"? -