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Pediatric Disaster Medicine Literature: A Scoping Review
- Yae Sul Jeong, Cullen Clark, Sarita Chung, Nathan Timm, Chris Wright, Brandon Kappy, Elizabeth Hewitt Brumberg, Eric Goralnick, April Parish, Rachel Stanley, Susi Miller, Caroline Stephens
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- Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 38 / Issue S1 / May 2023
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Introduction:
Over the last 20 years disasters have increasingly involved children, and pediatric disaster medicine research is growing. However, this research is largely reactive, has not been categorized in terms of the disaster cycle, and the quality of the research is variable. To understand the gaps in current literature and highlight areas for future research, we conducted a scoping review of pediatric disaster medicine literature. This work will help create recommendations for future pediatric disaster medicine research.
Method:Using a published framework for scoping reviews, we worked with a medical librarian and a multi-institutional team to define the research question, develop eligibility criteria, and to identify a search strategy. We conducted a comprehensive Medline search from 2001-2022, which was distributed to nine reviewers. Each article was independently screened for inclusion by two reviewers. Discrepancies were resolved by a third reviewer.
Inclusion criteria included articles published in English, related to all stages of the disaster cycle, and disaster education, focused on or included pediatric populations; published in academic, peer-reviewed journals, and policies from professional societies.
Results:967 pediatric disaster medicine articles were imported for screening and 35 duplicates were removed. 932 articles were screened for relevance and 109 were excluded. In 2000, three articles met inclusion criteria and 66 in 2021. We noticed reactive spikes in the number of articles after major disasters. Most articles focused on preparedness and response, with only a few articles on recovery, mitigation, and prevention. Methodology used for most studies was either qualitative or retrospective. Most were single site studies and there were < 10 meta-analyses over the 20 years.
Conclusion:This scoping review describes the trends in and quality of existing pediatric disaster medicine literature. By identifying the gaps in this body of literature, we can better prioritize future research.
Chapter 7 - Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
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Genetic Influences on Vulnerability to, and Protective Factors for, Adolescent Drinking
- Elizabeth A. Siewert, Michael C. Stallings, John K. Hewitt
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- Twin Research / Volume 7 / Issue 6 / 01 December 2004
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Using behavioral genetic analyses, we investigated and present a possible relationship between adolescent alcohol use and six domains of common problem behaviors in a community-based sample of 633 twin pairs who were under the legal drinking age of 21 (mean age = 15.0 years). The underlying etiology of the six problem behavioral domains, classified as conduct problems, hyperactivity, school problems, low self-esteem, neuroticism, and social withdrawal, was previously described (Siewert et al., 2003) as two heritable and genetically distinct dimensions of problem behavior. We took the two best-fitting models from that study (one that proposed a generalized behavior problem factor along with an internalizing behavior factor, and one that proposed an externalizing behavior factor along with an internalizing behavior factor) and extended the analyses in this study to include an index of alcohol use. Our results suggest that there is a strong genetic relationship between adolescent alcohol use and a broad spectrum of both externalizing and internalizing behavioral problems. The individual who seems to be at risk for either generalized or specifically externalizing behavioral problems is also at risk for adolescent alcohol use. However, the individual who exhibits internalizing problem behaviors appears to be protected from adolescent alcohol use. We propose that adolescent alcohol consumption needs to be understood in the context of these genetically influenced externalizing and internalizing propensities.
The Norfolk Island Eye Study (NIES): Rationale, Methodology and Distribution of Ocular Biometry (Biometry of the Bounty)
- David A. Mackey, Justin C. Sherwin, Lisa S. Kearns, Yaling Ma, John Kelly, Byoung-Sun Chu, Robert MacMillan, Julie M. Barbour, Colleen H. Wilkinson, Elizabeth Matovinovic, Hannah C. Cox, Claire Bellis, Rod A. Lea, Sharon Quinlan, Lyn R. Griffiths, Alex W. Hewitt
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Aim: To describe the recruitment, ophthalmic examination methods and distribution of ocular biometry of participants in the Norfolk Island Eye Study, who were individuals descended from the English Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian wives. Methods: All 1,275 permanent residents of Norfolk Island aged over 15 years were invited to participate, including 602 individuals involved in a 2001 cardiovascular disease study. Participants completed a detailed questionnaire and underwent a comprehensive eye assessment including stereo disc and retinal photography, ocular coherence topography and conjunctival autofluorescence assessment. Additionally, blood or saliva was taken for DNA testing. Results: 781 participants aged over 15 years were seen (54% female), comprising 61% of the permanent Island population. 343 people (43.9%) could trace their family history to the Pitcairn Islanders (Norfolk Island Pitcairn Pedigree). Mean anterior chamber depth was 3.32mm, mean axial length (AL) was 23.5mm, and mean central corneal thickness was 546 microns. There were no statistically significant differences in these characteristics between persons with and without Pitcairn Island ancestry. Mean intra-ocular pressure was lower in people with Pitcairn Island ancestry: 15.89mmHg compared to those without Pitcairn Island ancestry 16.49mmHg (P = .007). The mean keratometry value was lower in people with Pitcairn Island ancestry (43.22 vs. 43.52, P = .007). The corneas were flatter in people of Pitcairn ancestry but there was no corresponding difference in AL or refraction. Conclusion: Our study population is highly representative of the permanent population of Norfolk Island. Ocular biometry was similar to that of other white populations. Heritability estimates, linkage analysis and genome-wide studies will further elucidate the genetic determinants of chronic ocular diseases in this genetic isolate.
Genetic and Environmental Analysis of Behavioral Risk Factors for Adolescent Drug Use in a Community Twin Sample
- Elizabeth A. Siewert, Michael C. Stallings, John K. Hewitt
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We investigated the etiology of six problem behaviors that might facilitate an understanding of behavioral pathways to substance use and abuse in adolescents. These behavioral measures, classified as Conduct Problems, Hyperactivity, School Problems, Low Self-esteem, Neuroticism, and Social Withdrawal were the result of a previously reported (Siewert et al., 2003) modification of the Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI; Tarter, 1990; Tarter & Hegedus, 1991). We developed these measures as interpretable components of risk for substance use and abuse in a community based sample of 633 twin pairs, who were under the legal drinking age of 21 (mean age = 15.0 years). Using multivariate analyses, model comparisons indicated that these six behavioral measures could be thought of as two heritable, and genetically distinct, dimensions of problem behavior. Two closely competing models resulted from our analyses. The best fitting model hypothesized a general genetic factor loading on all 6 behavioral measures with a second genetic factor loading on only the three internalizing behavioral measures with loadings of 0.25–0.59 and 0.26–0.44, respectively. A second model, which fit the data almost as well, hypothesized one genetic factor loading only on the externalizing behavioral measures, and a second genetic factor loading only on the internalizing behavioral measures, with a correlation between the two latent factors of 0.75. Because our analyses show that there are two genetically distinct factors influencing these six problem behaviors, we anticipate that there may be different patterns of relationship of these factors to risk for substance use, abuse, and dependence.
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Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action
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In “Politics,” Emerson describes the young nation's preference for democracy as only provisional, explaining, “Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.” This refusal to embrace as inevitable the political system under whose name the nation (at least ideally) had been founded is an example of Emerson's characteristic contrariness – a provocative stance against the tendency to be “very vain of our political institutions.” Here speaking as the radical (even anarchical) Emerson, he announces that “Every actual State is corrupt,” and the nature of this corruption is particularity of interests. His denunciation of political systems is actually an invocation of civic virtue: the problem with politics is that private and personal interests contaminate ideal “instincts.” In similar terms, Emerson repeatedly references the “colossal ugliness in the governments of the world,” which is force. And force, as Emerson defines it, is the exertion of the self-interest of those who hold power (the state) over those who don't (its citizens). If his attack on self-interest is consonant with republicanism, then, in declaring the state to be fundamentally “corrupt,” Emerson also speaks the essential tenet of liberalism. Because the power of the state is always understood to be a diminishment of individual autonomy, or freedom, the emphasis must be on limiting its power. In these terms we can see that the only distinction between liberalism and anarchy is that the liberal understands the state as a necessary evil.
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Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors from Crevecoeur and Adams through Jefferson, to Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, could theorise the social and political themes that were so crucial to their respective literary projects. They interrogated the political possibilities of social intercourse through the practice and analysis of correspondence. Hewitt argues that although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the nation.
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In 1891, five years after her death, Thomas Wentworth Higginson published in the Atlantic Monthly a selection of letters he had received from Emily Dickinson in the early years of their twenty-four-year correspondence. He justifies the publication of the letters, which he claims to do with “much reluctance,” by offering them not as an extension of Dickinson's body of work, but as documents that provide clues to the life and mind of the “partially cracked poetess at Amherst”:
It seems to be the opinion of those who have examined her accessible correspondence most widely, that no other letters bring us quite so intimately near to the peculiar quality and aroma of her nature; and it has been urged upon me very strongly that her readers have the right to know something more of this gifted and most interesting woman.
Higginson proposes that Dickinson's epistolary writing is valuable insofar as it offers biographical revelation. Four years later, Mabel Loomis Todd (who compiled the first edition of Dickinson's letters) cites the revelatory quality of the poet's epistolary writing as the reason for her own reluctance to publish the poet's correspondence: “It was with something almost like dread that I approached the task of arranging these letters, lest the deep revelations of a peculiarly shy inner life might so pervade them that in true loyalty to their writer none could be publicly used.”
1 - National letters
- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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- Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865
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When Habermas characterizes the eighteenth century as the “century of the letter,” he identifies epistolary writing as the textual apparatus that best represents not only the construction of the privatized individual, but also the bourgeois public sphere that comprises the relations between these autonomous individuals. Letter-writing offers an exemplary case of “audience-oriented privacy,” as well as a template for rational exchange that aims to emancipate itself from any type of domination. As Habermas explains, “Public debate was supposed to transform voluntas into a ratio that in the public competition of private arguments came into being as the consensus about what was practically necessary in the interest of all.” The rational consent that emerges from and in the public sphere demands a reconciliation between public and private interests, and Habermas identifies the letter as the textual form that best realizes this reconciliation.
We can see similar political work in one of the first documents of American national consolidation, the Articles of Confederation, which declares its participants to be in a “firm league of friendship with each other,” thereby insisting on private relations as the model by which to describe the political relations between the various states. Urging ratification of the Articles, one constituent writes, “when any Sociaty Gets Divded in Sentiment it is verry hard to unite them.” The Articles also illustrate the centrality of epistolarity to the formation of the nation, as consolidation is accomplished here by way of a document that takes the form of a letter.
Conclusion: Whitman's universal letters
- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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Given that the letter is a primary technology of union (the literary form whose function is to congregate aggregates) and given that from ratification to secession the epistolary mode was so frequently used to describe an American politics dedicated to managing union, we might expect that the poet of national union would likewise be invested in letter-writing as both practice and metaphor. After all, the inaugurating sentences of Walt Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass seems to offer a condensation of what we have seen to be Ralph Waldo Emerson's epistolary theory: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” Whitman's celebration of radical individualism is aligned with his celebration of communal identity and, thus, his “assumption” seems to depend on the very same presumption that characterizes the political work of the letter, which likewise functions to make identity and distinction (proximity and distance) commensurate.
We might also presume a certain affinity between Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the epistolary mode given his poem's sustained employment of the second-person address that likewise characterizes familiar letters. When, for example, Whitman describes his intimate relationship to us in “Song of Myself” (“This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you” [45]), the conceit would seem to be that we are addressed as the recipient of a private and intimate document.
Introduction: Universal letter-writers
- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001, another terror spread through the United States, as anxieties about biological weapons being delivered by post in private letters turned the innocuous act of mail receipt and delivery into a site of terror and a potential act of terrorism. Rumors that terrorist instructions were being encrypted into email seemed to corroborate the belief that sites of interpersonal communication were now hazardous spaces. This conjunction between postal communication and acts of violence, of course, had been realized before, as the last decade of the twentieth century seemed to illustrate with a particular intensity: Ted Kaczynski's (‘Unibomber’), letter bombs; computer viruses that were increasingly spread by email; the seeming tendency of American post-office workers to turn from the monotony of mail-sorting to murderous rampages (a phenomenon that coined the phrase “going postal”). As we will see, this conjunction is not even a twentieth-century phenomenon. Early republican novels, for example, often describe letters as disseminating particular kinds of social injuries: because of letters, women are seduced, or lovers commit suicide. And in the antebellum period, abolitionist writing was often described by proslavery ideologues as a “plague” disseminated through the American South by way of the national post office. Even the phrase “going postal” has a nineteenth-century analogue in the tale of another disgruntled post-office worker, Bartleby, who finds himself drawn to a very different form of workplace violence.
4 - Jacobs's letters from nowhere
- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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- Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865
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Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery begins by acknowledging the loss of origins that characterized the identity of African American slaves: he writes, “I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth.” But he goes on to suggest that “As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-road post-office called Hale's Ford.” That his birthplace is referenced as proximate to a post office might not be especially significant, except that as his autobiography continues, he elaborates on the centrality of the post office to the dissemination of knowledge among plantation slaves. Striving to recall the first moment in which he was self-conscious of his status as chattel slave, Washington describes his mother waking him with prayers about “Lincoln and his armies.” This recollection induces him to wonder how it is that “slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country.” Although Washington claims that he has “never been able to understand” how such knowledge was acquired, he almost immediately answers the question when he explains that slaves, even those located in the most remote locations, “kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the ‘grape-vine’ telegraph”:
[N]ews was usually gotten from the coloured man who was sent to the post-office for the mail. In our case the post-office […]
Contents
- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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- Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State University
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