Trauma in sub-Saharan Africa: review of cost, estimation methods, and interventions.

Trauma is a widely acknowledged problem facing individuals and communities in developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa-a region that is home to some of the world's worst human rights violations, ethnic and civil conflicts, disease epidemics, and conditions of poverty-trauma is an all-too-common experience in citizens' daily lives. In order to address these conditions effectively, the impact of trauma must be understood.

Church attendee help seeking priorities after Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi and Louisiana: a brief report.

After a disaster, survivors find themselves seeking many types of help from others in their communities. The purpose of this exploratory study was to assist in mental health service planning by determining the type and priority of support services sought by church attendees after Hurricane Katrina. Surveys were given to church attendees from two Mississippi coast and four New Orleans area churches that were directly affected by Hurricane Katrina participants were asked to review a list of 12 potential sources of help and were asked to rank the items chronologically from whom they had sought help first after Hurricane Katrina.

Developing standards of care: a tale of two panels.

Objective: How will a group of experts convened to develop standards of care communicate in meaningfully different ways when interacting online in contrast to traditional face-to-face meetings. Furthermore, does online interaction facilitate discussion among participants from diverse cultural backgrounds and at what cost?

Design: A project to develop standards of care for deaf and hard of hearing adults used two panels of experts operating in two different formats: online and face-to-face. One panel interacted via an online system while the other met in a day-long face-to-face conference.