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...findings echo previous studies on the mental health toll faced by the more than 1.6 million U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In a comprehensive survey released this month by the think tank Rand Corporation, researchers concluded that nearly 20% of returning military personnel from these two fronts - about 300,000 service members - suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Left untreated, PTSD and depression could cost the nation as much as $6.2 billion in medical care and indirect costs during the two years that follow deployment, the Rand researchers estimated. "We need to remove the institutional cultural barriers...
...dropped just a single percentage point, to 46%. That's worse than in most African countries, and means almost half India's children remain at risk of "health problems such as stunted growth, mental retardation, and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases," according to the most recent National Family Health Survey, a study of more than 230,000 people, from which the figures are taken...
...TIME 100 is not a list of the smartest, the most powerful or the most talented--it is a thoughtful and sprightly survey of the most influential individuals in the world. Influence, like those other categories, is subjective, but you try to measure it in the effect people have on the world. You look at how Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor, has reached millions of people via YouTube with his poignant "last lecture" and its message of fortitude and good humor in the face of death. Influence like that is a form of power, but power is not always...
...collaboration with the Undergraduate Council, announced Wednesday that students will be able to fill out online evaluations of services they receive at UHS beginning this fall. During Mental Health Week, which kicked off Feb. 23, the UC passed legislation recommending that the College-UHS Advisory Committee create a survey to solicit feedback on UHS visits on a periodic basis. Susan I. Putnins ’08, a student representative to the advisory committee, said she hoped moving the evaluation online would encourage more students to respond. “We talk a lot amongst ourselves about our complaints with...
...administrative positions, increase the power of the divisional deans, and institute a year-long slowdown on Faculty hiring to allow for further planning. With the administration growing, Zipser—who in her current post helped Senior Vice Provost Evelynn M. Hammonds design and analyze a University-wide faculty survey focused on gender and ethnicity—pledged to be a voice for professors. “The most important thing for me to do when I get there is to really listen to the Faculty and to understand what their needs are,” she said...