15 research outputs found
Building New University Hospital ā What Citizens Know and Policy Makers Should be Aware of
Survey of citizensā attitudes in the process of strategic decision making is one of the
most important methods for determining health care priorities. We describe the results
of a survey carried out in December 2001, with an aim to collect and analyze the attitudes
of the citizens and health care professionals toward the possibilities and strategies
of construction of the University Hospital in Blato, Zagreb. The first referendum on the
construction of the new hospital was conducted among Zagreb citizens in 1982, when
they agreed that the new University Hospital was much needed. Zagreb citizens confirmed
once again their attitudes toward and opinions on the need to continue the construction
of new hospital in the city outskirts. By 1992, when the construction of the hospital
was halted due to insufficient financial means, Zagreb citizens had already
invested over 150 million in the project. It is interesting that today, 89.4% of the citizens
and 74.5% of physicians agree that the new hospital building should be completed.
Also, 66.7% of the citizens and 88% of physicians think that this hospital should be a
University hospital that could offer the most complex treatments and medical education.
To finish the construction of the new hospital further 200 million needs to be invested.
Survey showed that 71% of citizens and 82.2% of physicians think that funds
should be raised from some form of credit or budget rather than by special local tax, additional
tax or voluntary tax. This project will significantly determine the future of hospital
and health care system in Croatia due to its capacities in terms of space, technology,
and staff. Before the decision to continue with the new hospital construction be
made, the expected future needs, demands, and supply of the health care services in hospital
sector in Zagreb and Croatia should be provided using SWOT analysis for each of
existing the facilities
Regenerative agriculture in Aotearoa New Zealand - research pathways to build science-based evidence and national narratives.
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The effect of increasing rates of nitrogen fertiliser and a nitrification inhibitor on nitrous oxide emissions from urine patches on sheep grazed hill country pasture
Rupture of splenic artery aneurysm in primipara five days after cesarean section: case report and review of the literature
Relationship of early-life trauma, war-related trauma, personality traits, and PTSD symptom severity: a retrospective study on female civilian victims of war
Background: Consequences of war-related traumatisation have mostly been investigated in military and predominant male populations, while research on female civilian victims of war has been neglected. Furthermore, research of post-war posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women has rarely included early-life trauma in their prediction models, so the contribution of trauma in childhood and early youth is still unexplored. Objective: To examine the relationship of early-life trauma, war-related trauma, personality traits, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress among female civilian victims of the recent war in Croatia. Method: The cross-sectional study included 394 participants, 293 war-traumatised adult women civilians, and 101 women without war-related trauma. Participants were recruited using the snowball sampling method. The applied instruments included the Clinician-Administrated PTSD Scale (CAPS), the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R), the War Stressors Assessment Questionnaire (WSAQ), and the Early Trauma Inventory Self Report-Short Form (ETISR-SF). A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the prediction model of PTSD symptom severity measured by CAPS score for current PTSD. Results: The prevalence of current PTSD (CAPS cut-off score=65) in this cohort was 20.7%. The regression model that included age, early-life trauma, war-related trauma, neuroticism, and extraversion as statistically significant predictors explained 45.8% of variance in PTSD symptoms. Conclusions: Older age, exposure to early-life trauma, exposure to war-related traumatic events, high neuroticism, and low extraversion are independent factors associated with higher level of PTSD symptoms among women civilian victims of war
The Radicalisation and Ethnicization of Elections: The 1990 Local Elections and the Ethnic Conflict in Croatia
Internally displaced "victims of armed conflict" in Colombia: the trajectory and trauma signature of forced migration.
While conflict-induced forced migration is a global phenomenon, the situation in Colombia, South America, is distinctive. Colombia has ranked either first or second in the number of internally displaced persons for 10 years, a consequence of decades of armed conflict compounded by high prevalence of drug trafficking. The displacement trajectory for displaced persons in Colombia proceeds through a sequence of stages: (1) pre-expulsion threats and vulnerability, (2) expulsion, (3) migration, (4) initial adaptation to relocation, (5) protracted resettlement (the end point for most forced migrants), and, rarely, (6) return to the community of origin. Trauma signature analysis, an evidence-based method that elucidates the physical and psychological consequences associated with exposures to harm and loss during disasters and complex emergencies, was used to identify the psychological risk factors and potentially traumatic events experienced by conflict-displaced persons in Colombia, stratified across the phases of displacement. Trauma and loss are experienced differentially throughout the pathway of displacement