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Perceived Attitudes And Staff Roles Of Community Based Outpatient Clinics In Disaster Management, Pauline Antoinette Hodge-Hilton

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Objective: Natural and manmade disasters have claimed the lives of thousands of individuals in the US and caused billions of dollars in property damage. First responders carry the responsibility of disaster management, leaving other health care professionals such as medical clinic staff underutilized to support the clinic staff. We explored how medical and support staff in Community-based Outpatient VHA Clinics (CBOC) perceive their roles in disaster response, their attitudes about clinic readiness and continuity of care during disasters, and their ability to function in a post disaster environment.

Methods: A mixed method study was conducted to answer questions related to …

Update - June 2011, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

[ Clinical Bioethics and Religion: Robert Orr's Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor ]
-- Forging a Path for Christian Ethics (Review)
-- A Passionate, Faith-Inspired Physician - Ethicist (Review)
-- Excepts from Robert Orr's Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor

-- 2012 Jack W. Provonsha lecture opens the Alumni Postgraduate Convention
-- Editorial

[ Claritás - Clarity in Ethics Essay Contest - White Coats: Purple Pens ]
-- First-place 2010 essay winner, Gregory A, Lammert, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University

-- Dental Ethics at Loma Linda University
-- Non-violent Revolution: Blessed Are the Peacemakers
-- …

Update - September 2005, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Just Care: Rationing in a Public Health Crisis
-- Editorial
-- Graduate profiles
-- Jack W. Provonsha Lecture Series: Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Religious Perspective

Update - June 2005, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Universal Access to Health Care and Religious Basis of Human Rights

Social Welfare Systems And Their Effects On Adolescent Violence, Injecting Drug Use, And Negative Health Behaviors, Elvin A. Hernandez

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Youth and young adults who are injection drug users (IDU’s) often live and survive in physical and emotional environments that are associated with negative behaviors and outcomes. Past environmental and social factors, such as participation in social welfare systems or institutionalization in foster care or juvenile hall, have been found to be associated with IDU-involved young adults’ health behaviors when they become older. Social networks, which include drug, sex, or hangout networks, may influence their health outcomes and behaviors. The goals of this dissertation include an investigation of how reported past social welfare participation and institutionalization is associated with IDU-involved …

Update - September 2004, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- A Statement on Racism
-- Editorial
-- Review and Critique of "A Statement on Racism"
-- Homelessness and Poverty
-- Review and Critique of the Seventh-day Adventist Policy Statement Titled "Homelessness and Poverty"
-- News from the Center for Christian Biothics
-- Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions

Update - June 2004, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Examining the Ethics of Praying With Patients
-- Editorial
-- Agape and the Deeply Forgetful
-- Congratulations to this year's clinical ethics graduates

Update - November 2003, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Editorial
-- Hindu Perspectives on Genetic Enhancements in Humans
-- HIPAA: Privacy and Public Good
-- 2003 Graduates

Update - January 2003, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Editorial
-- Of One Piece of Cloth: A Journey Discovering Personal and Social Ethics
-- Seventh-day Adventist, Social Policy, and Social Ethics
-- A Dream, the Way, and the Self
-- Seventh-day Adventist Call for Peace
-- Photos from the Contributors Convention . . .

Update - June 1994, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Can America Afford the Booming Elderly Population?
-- The Booming Elderly Population: The Economic Crunch and Generational Equity
-- Our Burgeoning Elderly Population: Rationing Scarce Resources
-- Medicine and the Aging America: Nurturing and Caring for Older Adults
-- Meet Our AM Students
-- Park Ridge Center Conference: November 3 & 4
-- The New Relatedness for Man and Woman in Christ: A Mirror of the Divine

Update - May 1991, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Strategies for Moral Decision-Making: Confessions of a Moral Underling

[ The HIV Status of Health Professionals: Do Patients Have a Right to Know? ]
-- Risk Transmission of HIV form Infected Clinician to Susceptible Patients
-- Does the Patient Have a Right to Know the HIV Status of the Health-Care Worker?
-- Health-Care Professionals With Aids: A Patient's Right to Know?

Update - October 1990, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Richard Lamm highlights Ethics and Aging Project
-- A Personal View

[ The Nazi Doctors ]
-- Where Did They Go Wrong?
-- The Slippery Slide of Medical Ethics
-- From Health to Holocaust: Adventists and the Nazi Doctors

-- LLU's Ethics Center supports campaign against international tobacco trade

Update - March 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Endowment effort succeeds!
-- In honor of my father
-- Are Apartheid and Nuclear War Biotheical Issues? (Editorial)

[ ABORTION: Understanding Our Differences ]
-- Excerpts from a husband and wife 'debate' regarding abortion

-- The Ethics of Biomedical Ethicists (Critique)