Cancer Prevention in Indigenous Communities from Guatemala: A Needs Assessment Study.

Background: Guatemala lacks cancer prevention strategies and has low screening rates.

Objective: To assess the history of chronic conditions, risk factors, and cancer screening uptake among three Indigenous populations of Southwestern Guatemala.

Methods: We conducted a health needs assessment.

Blackout 2003: preparedness and lessons learned from the perspectives of four hospitals.

Introduction: The blackout in North America of August 2003 was one of the worst on record. It affected eight US states and parts of Canada for >24 hours. Additionally, two large US cities, Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio, suffered from a loss of water pressure and a subsequent ban on the use of public supplies of potable water that lasted four days.

Disaster modeling: medication resources required for disaster team response.

Introduction: Responses to disasters involve many factors beyond personnel, such as medical and non-medical equipment and supplies. When disaster teams respond, they must do so with sufficient amounts of medicine and supplies to manage all of the patients expected for several days before re-supply. In order for this process to be efficient and expedient, accurate and advanced planning for supplies needed by disaster workers is necessary.