scholarly journals An American Hero: Faith-Based Emergency Health Care in Karen State, Myanmar and Beyond

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Horstmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Emergency Health Care ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Freedom Fighters

This article examines the vastly expanded mobility of displaced Karen villagers in the evangelical humanitarian movement, the Free Burma Rangers. This builds on ethnographic fieldwork on humanitarian cultures in the Thai-Burmese borderlands conducted since 2007 with a Thai research team and funded by Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity. While refugees are too often presented as victims, the article argues that by joining the mission, the Karen freedom fighters become ambassadors of a political ideology and evangelism. Bringing Christianity with them from their displaced homes, displaced Karen meet the evangelical humanitarian organization in the Karen hills or in the Thai refugee camps, train with them, and supply the villagers left behind with emergency health care and religious messages. Sponsored by American evangelical churches, the US military, and resettled Karen communities in the West, the freedom fighters of the Free Burma Rangers mobilize people and resources all over the globe. Recently, they have expanded their operations beyond Myanmar to places as far as Syria, Iraq and South Sudan, thus getting involved in what it presents as a global struggle between good and evil.

Adolescent Caesarean Delivery in the US Military Health Care System

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Klein ◽  
Ginny Gildengorin ◽  
Peter Mosher ◽  
William P. Adelman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Caesarean Delivery ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Military Health Care ◽  
The Us ◽  
Care System

Taking Social Cohesion to Task: Perceptions of Transgender Military Inclusion and Concepts of Cohesion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Spindel ◽  
Robert Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
General Public ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
Unit Effectiveness ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unit Cohesion

Abstract Recent political debates over the inclusion of transgender servicemembers in the US military center around the impact such inclusion will have on unit cohesion and effectiveness. Missing from the debate, however, are the perceptions of those who do the soldiering. What are their perceptions of cohesion? Do they, like political leaders and the general public, believe unit cohesion leads to military effectiveness? In other words, how much does the narrative at the elite level—that insists excluding minority groups is a military necessity—match the perceptions of those who serve? Drawing on an original survey of 151 current and former members of the US military, our results suggest that servicemembers’ perceptions mirror those in the general public: political ideology is correlated with beliefs that minority groups disrupt unit cohesion. We find that conservatives are more likely to believe that the inclusion of transgender soldiers will negatively impact cohesion and undermine unit effectiveness. Moreover, conservatives are more likely to endorse a conceptualization of cohesion that hinges on the social—“people like me” or “band of brothers”—dynamics of cohesion rather than more professional, task-oriented conceptions of cohesion. However, military experience affects these perceptions: respondents with combat experience, who held/hold a higher rank, and who are currently serving are more likely to endorse a task-based conception of cohesion that ties cohesion to professionalism and competence, rather than social identity.

scholarly journals Prediction of Peaks of Seasonal Influenza in Military Health-Care Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 7s2 ◽  
pp. BECB.S36277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna L Buczak ◽  
Benjamin Baugher ◽  
Erhan Guven ◽  
Linda Moniz ◽  
Steven M. Babin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Influenza Activity ◽  
Active Duty Personnel ◽  
Preventive Public Health

Influenza is a highly contagious disease that causes seasonal epidemics with significant morbidity and mortality. The ability to predict influenza peak several weeks in advance would allow for timely preventive public health planning and interventions to be used to mitigate these outbreaks. Because influenza may also impact the operational readiness of active duty personnel, the US military places a high priority on surveillance and preparedness for seasonal outbreaks. A method for creating models for predicting peak influenza visits per total health-care visits (ie, activity) weeks in advance has been developed using advanced data mining techniques on disparate epidemiological and environmental data. The model results are presented and compared with those of other popular data mining classifiers. By rigorously testing the model on data not used in its development, it is shown that this technique can predict the week of highest influenza activity for a specific region with overall better accuracy than other methods examined in this article.

scholarly journals Stigmatized Love, Boundary Making and the Heroic Love Myth: How Filipina Women Construct Their Relationships with American Military Men

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Reyes;Reyes
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
American Military ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Marriage Migrants ◽  
Boundary Making

This chapter provides an empirical examination of how Filipina women construct their intimate relationships with US military men, and compares marriage migrants with those ‘left behind’ when the US military withdrew from their permanent bases in the Philippines. First, I’ll situate the case in theories on interracial love and marriage. Second, I outline my data and analytic approach. Following this, I focus on my findings. I show how the women talked about the base through the lens of childhood nostalgia. This is important to understand to contextualize their views of US servicemen and provide the backdrop from which these relationships were formed. Next, I show how they draw on love myths to frame their relationships and draw symbolic boundaries around their own relationship and others that may seem similar. Finally, I discuss how they further embraced their familial roles of wife and mother. Being legally or informally married to a US serviceman shapes a woman’s role in her family. Their childhood memories and current conceptions of motherhood and as a wife are interconnected with how they see their relationships with these men.

Contractual and stewardship timescapes: The cultural logics of US–Philippines environmental conflict and negotiations

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-629
Author(s):  
Victoria Reyes
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Environmental Toxins ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal Arguments

In 1992, the US military withdrew from its bases in the Philippines. But they left behind environmental toxins that continue to pollute the land and people. Why was the US military able to leave without cleaning up this environmental damage? What can the environment tell us about the broader Philippine–US relationship? In this article I analyse a 2002 class action lawsuit against the United States regarding environmental damages caused by the US military. I argue that at the heart of these legal arguments are different understandings of time and history, what I call a contractual timescape versus a stewardship timescape.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in the Active Component US Military

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (12) ◽  
pp. 2194-2201
Author(s):  
John M. Young ◽  
Shauna L. Stahlman ◽  
Shawn S. Clausen ◽  
Mark L. Bova ◽  
James D. Mancuso
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Active Component ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Similar Rate ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Adjusted Risk ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Us ◽  
Lower Magnitude

Objectives. To assess COVID-19 disparities in the active component US military with an emphasis on race and ethnicity. Methods. In this retrospective cohort study, we calculated the incidence of COVID-19 testing, infection, and hospitalization in the active component US military in calendar year 2020. Results. Overall, 61.3 per 100 population per year were tested for COVID-19, 10.4% of tests were positive, and 1.1% of infected individuals were hospitalized. Non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics had a rate of testing for COVID-19 similar to that of Whites but had a higher risk of infection (adjusted risk ratio [ARR] = 1.25 and 1.26, respectively) and hospitalization (ARR = 1.28 and 1.21, respectively). Conclusions. Although of lower magnitude than seen in civilian populations, racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection and hospitalizations exist in the US military despite universal eligibility for health care, similar rate of testing, and adjustment for comorbidities and other factors. Simply making health care coverage available may be insufficient to ensure health equity. Interventions to mitigate disparities in the US military should target the patient, provider, health care system, and society at large. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(12):2194–2201. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306527 )

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