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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic condition that affects
approximately 100,000 people in the United States and millions more
globally. Individuals with SCD endure the psychological and
physiological toll of repetitive pain as well as side effects from
the pain treatments they undergo. Some adults with SCD report
reluctance to use health care services, unless as a last resort,
due to the racism and discrimination they face in the health care
system. Additionally, many aspects of SCD are inadequately studied,
understood, and addressed. Addressing Sickle Cell Disease examines
the epidemiology, health outcomes, genetic implications, and
societal factors associated with SCD and sickle cell trait (SCT).
This report explores the current guidelines and best practices for
the care of patients with SCD and recommends priorities for
programs, policies, and research. It also discusses limitations and
opportunities for developing national SCD patient registries and
surveillance systems, barriers in the healthcare sector associated
with SCD and SCT, and the role of patient advocacy and community
engagement groups. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1
Introduction 2 Societal and Structural Contributors to Disease
Impact 3 Screening, Registries, and Surveillance 4 Complications of
Sickle Cell Disease and Current Management Approaches 5 Health Care
Organization and Use 6 Delivering High-Quality Sickle Cell Disease
Care with a Prepared Workforce 7 Developing and Delivering the Next
Generation of Therapies 8 Community Engagement and Patient Advocacy
9 Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Sickle Cell Disease Action
Appendix A: Public Meeting Agendas and Submissions to the Committee
Appendix B: Literature Search Terms and Strategy Appendix C:
Committee and Staff Biographies Appendix D: Newborn Screening
Results Reporting Protocols for Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell
Trait Appendix E: Sickle Cell Data Collection Program Appendix F:
Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center: A Case Study Appendix G:
Emory Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program Appendix H: Health Resources
and Services Administration Sickle Cell Disease Programs Appendix
I: Select Treatments Currently Under Development for Sickle Cell
Disease Appendix J: Other Training Models for Hematologists
Appendix K: Sickle Cell Community-Based Organizations and Patient
Groups in the United States Appendix L: Summary Table of Strategic
Plan and Blueprint for Sickle Cell Disease Action Appendix M:
Summary Table of Sickle Cell Trait Discussion in Report Appendix N:
Glossary
When over 900 followers of the People's Temple religious movement
committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and
fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as
brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals
that originally inspired People's Temple members. ""Hearing the
Voices of Jonestown"" restores the individual voices that have been
erased, so that we can better understand what was created - and
destroyed - at Jonestown, and why. Piecing together information
from interviews with former group members, archival research, and
diaries and letters of those who died there, Mary McCormick Maaga
describes the women leaders as educated political activists who
were passionately committed to achieving social justice through
communal life. She provides evidence that shows many of these women
voiced their discontent with the actions of the People's Temple in
the months right before the mass suicide. The book puts human faces
on the events at Jonestown, confronting theoretical religious
questions as Maaga attempts to reconcile how worthy utopian ideals
come to meet such tragic and misguided ends.
When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group
committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and
fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as
brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals
that originally inspired Peoples Temple members. Hearing the Voices
of Jonestown restores the individual voices that have been erased
so that we can better understand what was created - and destroyed -
at Jonestown, and why. Piecing together information from interviews
with former group members, archival research, and diaries and
letters of those who died there, Maaga describes the women leaders
as educated political activists who were passionately committed to
achieving social justice through communal life. The book analyzes
the historical and sociological factors that, Maaga finds,
contributed to the mass suicide, such as growing criticism from the
larger community and the influx of an upper-class, educated
leadership that eventually became more concerned with the symbolic
effects of the organization than with the daily lives of its
members. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown puts human faces on the
events at Jonestown, confronting theoretical religious questions,
such as how worthy utopian ideals come to meet such tragic and
misguided ends.
With the Novel Engineering approach, “students become excited
about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This
excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and
literacy, as well as in their abilities to work together, think
creatively and analytically, and communicate their ideas.”
—from Chapter 1 of Novel Engineering This book will both
introduce your students to an exciting integrated curriculum and
support you as you use it in your own elementary or middle school
classroom. Novel Engineering shows how your students can work
through engineering design challenges inspired by a broad range of
literature—novels and short stories, biographies and histories,
or even picture books. By way of introduction, the book offers
clear conceptual background and practical advice on how the
approach works: Your students pull information from literature to
identify a problem. Then, using details from the story or text,
they go through an engineering design process to develop functional
solutions for their “clients”—the book’s characters. To
support your efforts and bring the concept to life, the book gives
you five in-depth case studies featuring the use of novels, a
biography, and a nonfiction historical text. In addition to
demonstrating what a Novel Engineering project looks like in an
actual classroom, the case studies give you practice in thinking
about what your students’ work might look like and how you would
respond. One case describes a class in which students help the
shipwrecked Swiss Family Robinson build a shelter to keep them cool
under the hot sun. Another tells of students who design a hearing
aid for the main character in El Deafo—and then style it as a
fashion accessory. You’ll see that the books used in the case
studies are just suggestions. You don’t have to adopt texts
outside your existing English language arts or social studies
curriculum. You also don’t have to buy a specific
building-materials kit. You just have to embrace the idea that
literacy and engineering can support each other in your
classroom—and then watch the excitement build.
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