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Military Medicine , Military Personnel , Afghanistan , Canada , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The National Children's Study (NCS) was an ambitious attempt to map children's health and development in a large representative group of children in the United States. In this introduction, we briefly review the background of the NCS and the history of the multiple strategies that were tested to recruit women and children. Subsequent articles then detail the protocols and outcomes of 4 of the recruitment strategies. It is hoped that lessons learned from these attempts to define a study protocol that could achieve the initial aims of the NCS will inform future efforts to conceptualize and execute strategies to provide generalizable insights on the longitudinal health of our nation's children.
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Child Development , Child Welfare/trends , National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)/trends , Patient Selection , Child , Child Welfare/legislation & jurisprudence , Female , Humans , Longitudinal Studies , Male , National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)/legislation & jurisprudence , Pilot Projects , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Among the 28 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a variety of training methodologies--including simulators, moulage scenarios, didactics and live animal laboratories-are used to prepare military medical personnel to treat injured civilians and soldiers. For ethical, educational, practical, and economic reasons, the necessity of animal use for this purpose has come into question. This article reports the results of a survey examining the prevalence of animal use in military medical training exercises among all NATO nations, finding that more than three-quarters of these countries do not use animals.
