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Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43(2): 376-397 Abstract Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland Anna Eriksson Uffculme: Willan Publishing, 2009 Torture, Truth and Justice: The Case of Timor-Leste Elizabeth Stanley, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009 Murdering Stepmothers: The Execution of Martha Rendell By Anna Haebich Perth: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2010 Crime and Everyday Life By Marcus Felson and Rachel Boba Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2010 The Scene of Violence: Cinema Crime Affect Alison Young Abingdon: GlassHouse Routledge, 2010. Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging Edited by Gregory Noble Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press, 2009 Border Crimes: Australia's War on Illicit Mi...

Factors Associated With Nonexclusive Breastfeeding in 5 East and Southeast Asian Countries: A Multilevel Analysis
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:41:57 +0100 | Journal of Human Lactation
This study aimed to examine individual-, household-, and community-level characteristics associated with nonexclusive breastfeeding (non-EBF) in infants younger than 6 months of age using Demographic and Health Surveys data collected between 2002 and 2005 in East and Southeast Asia. Multilevel logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios for factors associated with non-EBF. Exclusive breastfeeding rates in infants younger than 6 months were as follows: Vietnam, 15.5%; Timor-Leste, 30.7%; the Philippines, 33.7%; Indonesia, 38.9%; and Cambodia, 60.1%. The significant individual factors associated with non-EBF included first-born infants, working mothers, and higher maternal age. Communities with a higher proportion of wealthier households in Indonesia, trained delivery assistance...

Bats Without Borders: Long-Distance Movements and Implications for Disease Risk Management
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:53:28 +0100 | EcoHealth
Abstract Fruit bats of the genus Pteropus (commonly known as flying-foxes) are the natural hosts of several recently emerged zoonotic viruses of animal and human health significance in Australia and Asia, including Hendra and Nipah viruses. Satellite telemetry was used on nine flying-foxes of three species (Pteropus alecto n = 5, P. vampyrus n = 2, and P. neohibernicus n = 2) to determine the scale and pattern of their long-distance movements and their potential to transfer these viruses between countries in the region. The animals were captured and released from six different locations in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste. Their movements were recorded for a median of 120 (range, 47–342) days with a median total distan...

Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Southeast Asia.
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:45:04 +0100 | Advances in Parasitology
Authors: Sudomo M, Chayabejara S, Duong S, Hernandez L, Wu WP, Bergquist R Approximately 15 million people with lymphatic filariasis (LF) live in Southeast Asia. Wuchereria bancrofti (transmitted by the Mansonia and Anopheles vectors), Brugia malayi and Brugia timori (both transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus) are the filarial species in this region. The endemic countries are: Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Timor-Leste, which have all agreed to eliminate transmission of the disease by 2020. The public health interventions with respect to LF are based on the 1997 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA 50.29) which recommends elimination of the disease through mass drug administration (MDA) using diethylcarbamazine (DEC) and albendazo...

Torture, Truth and Justice: The case of Timor-Leste
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:17:03 +0100 | British Journal of Criminology - recent issues
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Timor-Leste: UN helps set up local factory to produce fortified food
Wed, 26 May 2010 05:00:00 +0100 | UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population
Vulnerable people in Timor-Leste will receive a nutritional boost, thanks to a new food fortification factory set up with assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)

Training and using mid-level eye care workers: early lessons from Timor-Leste
Sun, 23 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Conclusions: Adherence to current best practice in the design and delivery of the curriculum and course was insufficient to ensure productive graduates of ongoing clinical competency, positioned to make an impact on eye health. Attention needs to be directed to postgraduation integration into the workplace, and continuing support once there. The efficacy of this mid-level cadre and its impact on eye health requires further evaluation. (Source: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology)

Infant and young child feeding indicators across nine East and Southeast Asian countries: an analysis of National Survey Data 2000-2005.
Mon, 03 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Public Health Nutrition
CONCLUSIONS: All the countries studied should make greater efforts to improve timely initiation of breast-feeding and EBF for 6 months. Measures should be taken to reduce high bottle-feeding rate in the Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia and Vietnam, and improve complementary-feeding rate in Lao PDR, Myanmar, DPR Korea and Philippines. PMID: 20441662 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Public Health Nutrition)

The prevalence of common skin infections in four districts in Timor-Leste: a cross sectional survey
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | BMC Infectious Diseases
We examined the skin of 1535 participants aged between four months and 97 years. The majority of participants were male, aged between 11 and 20 years and had at least one condition of interest (56.0%, 56.0%, and 63.1%, respectively). Fungal infections were the most common presentation (39.0%) and males were more commonly affected than females (42.3% vs 34.0%, respectively, pvalue (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)