Mobile Health in Complex Emergencies: Preliminary Results from a Workshop, Lebanon, March 2017
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Abstract
pharmacist must demonstrate, working in emergency humanitarian interventions.Background: In the last decades many influential international humanitarian organizations had strengthened and enlarged their capacity to deliver humanitarian aid, and have realized the need to employ more professionals in the field of humanitarian assistance.Pharmacists have crucial importance in health care related interventions of assuring the use of quality drugs, disease prevention and health promotion.The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that pharmacists should be adequately represented in the staff of international health agencies.Appropriate competencies and skills of pharmacists working in international humanitarian aid are essential in successful implementation of health interventions.Methods: A literature search was conducted to identify the main essential health services provided by humanitarian organizations and internationally accepted functional, technical and personal competencies required for pharmacists.Semistructured interviews were conducted with expatriate pharmacists and expatriate medical coordinators, all of whom have worked in the fields of humanitarian aid missions.The interviews are recorded, transcribed and analyzed using a content analysis and discourse analysis methodology.Results: Six participants were interviewed, three pharmacists and three medical coordinators.The interviewees had worked in (overall) 32 humanitarian missions.The main functions of the pharmacists were focused on stock management and supply of medicinal products.However, pharmacists in humanitarian fields do not perform many functions related to the provision of effective Medication Therapy Management (MTM).Interviewees highlighted that the personal competences related to working under pressure, adaptability and flexibility, cultural sensitivity and teamwork skills are essential for the humanitarian aid pharmacist.Conclusion: This study highlights the critical competencies required for humanitarian aid pharmacists.Moreover, identifies the absence of these professionals in key activities related to MTM, which may lead to health related risks.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".