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CDC director says racism is 'serious public health threat'
The Hill
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 8 declared racism a "serious public health threat," becoming the largest federal agency to do so.
"A growing body of research shows that centuries of racism in this country has had a profound and negative impact on communities of color," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement published on the agency's website.
Walensky noted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt most severely in communities of color, which have experienced disproportionate case counts and deaths.
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Webinar: Safety for All: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Lethalit
May 13, 2:00-3:30PM EST
David Thomas, International Association of Chiefs of Police
This webinar will focus on the nexus between intimate partner violence perpetrators, and the danger they pose to their significant other, third parties, and law enforcement. It will look at the role lethality/risk assessments can play in mitigating the lethal violence committed by these individuals. Register Today.
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Announcement on sexually transmitted disease surveillance
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
On April 13, during the second annual STD Awareness Week, CDC released Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2019. Reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have increased for the sixth consecutive year – reaching a new, all-time high. These infections remain common, costly, and challenge the health and wellness of millions of people across the United States.
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Firearms injuries involving young children in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic
Children's National Hospital via Cision
A recent study published in Pediatrics found that the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a surge in firearm injuries in young children and inflicted by young children.
The findings, led by Children's National Hospital experts, show that there was an increased risk of firearm injuries in young children and injuries inflicted by young children during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to the pre-COVID study period. These increased incidents correlate with an increase in new firearm ownership.
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'Marry your rapist' laws in 20 countries still allow perpetrators to escape justice
The Guardian
Twenty countries still allow rapists to marry their victims to escape criminal prosecution, according to the UN’s annual state of world population report.
Russia, Thailand and Venezuela are among the countries that allow men to have rape convictions overturned if they marry the women or girls they have assaulted.
Dr Natalia Kanem, executive director of the UN Population Fund, which published the report on April 14, said such laws were “deeply wrong” and were “a way of subjugating women.”
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Violence and its effects on healthcare service, access, and strategies
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing via Medical Xpress
Many factors, including need, affect healthcare use. Strategies geared to enhancing the provision and access to healthcare must consider the various mechanisms that contribute to healthcare need and use. Until now, the mechanism of violence and its impact on both health and healthcare use has not been investigated. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is one of the first to examine the association between violence exposure and healthcare service utilization in Mexico. Results are published in the International Journal of Health Equity.
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Women found to be more vulnerable than men regarding persistent mild TBI
The National Law Review
A recent study published in JAMA Neurology explored whether post-acute mild traumatic brain injury symptoms differ between men and women. The researchers concluded that the study “found that women were more vulnerable than men to persistent mTBI-related cognitive and somatic symptoms, whereas no sex difference in symptom burden was seen after an orthopedic injury. Post-concussion symptoms were also worse in women ages 35 – 49 years than in older and younger women, but further investigation is needed to corroborate these findings and identify the mechanism involved. The results suggest that individualized clinical management of mTBI should consider sex and age, as some women are especially predisposed to chronic post-concussion symptoms even 12 months after injury.”
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How spanking may affect brain development in children
The Harvard Gazette
Spanking may affect a child’s brain development in ways similar to more severe forms of violence, according to a new study led by Harvard researchers.
The research builds on existing studies that show heightened activity in certain regions of the brains of children who experience abuse in response to threat cues.
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New method for measuring human decomposition could significantly impact medicolegal death investigations
National Institute of Justice
In a criminal trial that involves a death, it often is critical to know when the person died. But law enforcement and medical examiner communities need more accurate and standardized methods, with known error rates, to estimate time since death.
To help get us closer to those standards, National Institute of Justice-supported researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, designed and demonstrated a new method for estimating time since death that builds on the commonly used Megyesi et al. method for measuring human decomposition. Using the Megyesi et al. method, forensic examiners divide observations into three portions — head and neck, trunk, and limbs — and assign scores to each section based on the presence or absence of set decomposition criteria. Those scores then generate a total body score — a number that correlates to observed human decomposition stages. The new method calculates a decedent’s total body score by summing decomposition scores from 16 regions of the body instead of three.
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