Health workers return medals for Ebola care in protest at UK “hostile environment” policy
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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k3243
Abstract: Around 20 aid workers who were honoured for their work in west Africa during the 2014-15 outbreak of Ebola disease have returned their medals to the UK government as a protest against the “hostile environment”… read more here.
Keywords: return medals; health workers; hostile environment; workers return ... See more keywords
Confused out of care: unanticipated consequences of a ‘Hostile Environment’
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105634
Abstract: The UK’s 2014 Immigration Act aimed to create a ‘Hostile Environment’ for migrants to the UK. One aspect of this was the restriction of access to secondary care for overseas visitors to the UK, although… read more here.
Keywords: hostile environment; confused care; care; access ... See more keywords
A Novel Fault-Tolerant Navigation and Positioning Method with Stereo-Camera/Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Inertial Measurement Unit (MEMS-IMU) in Hostile Environment
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DOI: 10.3390/mi9120626
Abstract: Visual odometry (VO) is a new navigation and positioning method that estimates the ego-motion of vehicles from images. However, VO with unsatisfactory performance can fail severely in hostile environment because of the less feature, fast… read more here.
Keywords: mems imu; hostile environment; navigation positioning; method ... See more keywords