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An apolitical risk assessment of the 2024 US elections: The threat of widespread riots and significant business disruption.
J Bus Contin Emer Plan
January 2024
Halliburton.
Civil disorder has always plagued humanity, with violence being triggered by real or perceived grievances, rumours and speculation, and internal or external agitators. The risk to people, communities, businesses and the rule of law is not isolated to a particular country or society. The propensity for violence and how it is incited is, however, an evolving threat with the advent of the 'modern riot'.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNatural and human-made disaster and associated health outcomes among community-dwelling older adults in India: Findings from LASI, 2017-18.
PLoS One
July 2024
Department of Survey Research and Data Analytics, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Background: Droughts, flash floods, rail accidents, and riots are relatively regular occurrences for those living in many low- and middle-income countries like India. While such natural and human-made disasters put everyone in harm's way, their toll on specific segments of society-like older adults-is the heaviest. Therefore, in this study, we examine (1) the prevalence of natural and human-made disasters in India and (2) the association between natural and human-made disasters and several physical and mental health outcomes among older Indians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCommunal Riots and Its Psychological Impact: A Systematic Review Study in Indian Context.
Psychol Res Behav Manag
May 2024
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Objective: In the Indian setting, communal riots characterized by intergroup violence have been common and have had an impact on the lives of both people and communities. The goal of this systematic review is to investigate the psychological effects of Indian communal riots in depth. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, the study aims to identify recurring themes, patterns, and variances in the psychological effects encountered by victims of community violence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChallenges and way forward for implementation of sugar taxation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
August 2024
National Dental Research Institute Singapore, National Dental Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Background: Over consumption of added sugar beyond the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended level of 10% of daily energy intake has well-established negative health consequences including oral diseases. However, the average consumption of added sugar in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA-World Bank's regional classification) is 70% higher than the WHO recommended level. Imposing taxes on added sugar has been proposed by the WHO to decrease its consumption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDissection, media portrayals, and reaction: Black bodies and medical education in nineteenth-century newspapers.
Clin Anat
May 2024
Department of History, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA.
Throughout the nineteenth century, medical schools in both the Northern and Southern regions of the United States required a regular supply of bodies for medical study and experimentation. Physicians and medical students targeted the bodies of African Americans, both freedmen and the enslaved, to meet this demand. Simultaneously, the nation's booming newspaper market became a stage on which debates about the cruelty of slavery and the social consequences of pursuing medical knowledge played out in articles about the dissection of Black bodies.
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