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G Desrosiers

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PubMed1987

Emergency telephone calls: a multiple baseline study using instructional programming.

Three women with Down's syndrome and speech difficulties were taught to discriminate emergency fire situations and subsequently how to contact, with minimal verbal requirements, an emergency agency by telephone. A procedure modelled on Engelmann and Carnine's (1982) guidelines for instructional programs was applied using a multiple baseline design across subjects. Independent ratings of each learner at post-testing and follow-up confirmed the utility of the present program.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

[Present situation and future prospects for epidemiological surveillance within the framework of Quebec new health system (author's transl)].

Epidemiological surveillance in Quebec is part of the integral system of this activity throughout the whole of Canada and the United States. Since surveillance is aimed mainly at the ecosystem of the disease rather than just the cases, the activities are insured from the horizontal point of view by several organisations, aided by various Ministeries (health, agriculture, industry and commerce). The vertical structure (besides the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta as coordinator) includes the federal Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, its epidemiology and surveillance bureaus, as well as its territorial epidemiologists, provincial epidemiologists and their teams. Quebec has recently been given a new health structure, introduced in conjunction with the traditional organisations by the new Departments of Community Health, and the Social Centres of Community Services. This structure which is new to North America is characterised mostly by its close integration with community health. Moreover, it represents an excellent opportunity for developing an epidemiological surveillance complementary to local problems and for heightening their responsibility.

Communicable Disease Control↗
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Health profile of applicants for refugee status (admitted into Quebec between August 1985 and April 1986).

Refugees requesting asylum when in Canada are termed "Applicants for Refugee Status". The present epidemiological study of a large series of these refugees by the Community Health Department of St-Luke's Hospital in Montreal provides a picture of their social and health profiles. The refugees came from developing countries with serious internal conflicts. On the whole, their state of health was satisfactory. However, in some cases specific diseases were detected which were often connected with their geographical origin. These diseases, which included treponematosis, intestinal parasitosis and nutritional deficiency should in future give rise to health care programs specially adapted to the sub-populations concerned. As regards the problem of torture, both its underestimation and inadequate psychological follow-up among refugees are of great concern and call for special training in treating the effects of torture on its victims.

Adolescent↗