Dorit nitzan kaluski biography
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Michael Toole
Annual Review of Public Health, 1997
Populations affected by armed conflict have experienced severe public health consequences mediated by population displacement, food scarcity, and the collapse of basic health services, giving rise to the term complex humanitarian emergencies. These public health effects have been most severe in underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Refugees and internally displaced persons have experienced high mortality rates during the period immediately following their migration. In Africa, crude mortality rates have been as high as 80 times baseline rates. The most common causes of death have been diarrheal diseases, measles, acute respiratory infections, and malaria. High prevalences of acute malnutrition have contributed to high case fatality ra
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Dorit Short Bio 10 September 2022
Prof Dorit Nitzan is a physician, specialized in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, with training and experience in in public health and emergencies.
She served in various senior roles in the World Health Organization (WHO) for 17 years. From 2005 to 2012 she was the WHO Representative and Head of Country Office in Serbia and Montenegro and a Manager of Public Health Services for South-East Europe. From 2012 to 2016, Dorit served as the WHO Representative and Head of Country Office in Ukraine. She was subsequently appointed WHO Regional Emergencies Director in the WHO European Region and was based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She retired in February 2022. At the start of the war in Ukraine, Dorit joined NATAN Disaster Relief NGO and headed, together with a logistics and operations colleague, the first humanitarian medical aid team for the Ukrainian refugees on the Polish-Ukrainian border. A few weeks later she was recalled to WHO as the Emergenc
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Lead poisoning among internally displaced Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian children in the United Nations-Administered Province of Kosovo
Background: This study assessed the association between lead poisoning prevention activities and blood lead levels (BLLs) among children living in lead-contaminated camps for internally displaced persons in the United Nations-Administered Province of Kosovo.
Methods: We conducted a population-based study to examine the relationship among geometric mean BLLs in children (i) born before any lead poisoning prevention activities were instituted, (ii) born when specific interim interventions were instituted and (iii) born after relocation and medical therapy were available. The study population consisted of 145 of the 186 children born in the camps between månad 1999 and July 2007.
Results: Lower mean BLLs were funnen in children born following implementation of the interventions as compared with the children born before the intervention