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Child abuse and neglect linked to early death in adulthood
UCL
Children who experience sexual or physical abuse or are neglected are more likely to die prematurely as adults, according to a new study analyzing data from the 1950s to the present by researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
The IAFN2021 Virtual Conference Registration Has Been Extended!
Join us for this year's virtual conference, offering dozens of recorded sessions available in six tracks, plus poster sessions, keynotes, exhibitors, and more! Register by October 29. Complete the conference offerings on your own timeline from October 1 through November 30, 2021. New live sessions have been added! Register Today!
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Have You Thought About Expanding Your Role as a Forensic Nurse?
In celebration of Forensic Nurses Week, IAFN invites you to a panel discussion to explore a variety of forensic nursing subspecialties. Join us November 9, 4:00-6:00 PM EST, to learn more about the career opportunities available for forensic nurses. Register Today.
Subspecialties include:
- Education
- Death Investigation
- Mass Casualties
- Human Trafficking
- Child Abuse
- Elder Abuse
- Forensic Nurse Legal Consultant
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Corrections
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Solitary confinement condemns many prisoners to long-term health issues
Kaiser Health News
Research has long shown that solitary confinement — isolating prisoners for weeks, months, years and sometimes decades — has devastating effects on their physical and mental health. Once released, either to the general prison population or to the outside world, they can face a suite of problems, like heart damage and depression. They’re often hypersensitive to light, sound, smell or touch. People, said Craig Haney, a professor of social psychology at the University of California-Santa Cruz, “become a source of anxiety rather than support.” And the coronavirus pandemic may have made the situation worse.
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LGBQ teens more likely to contemplate suicide at younger age
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Kids who are gay, bisexual or questioning their sexuality may be vulnerable to contemplating suicide at a tender age, a new U.S. government study finds. It has long been known that teenagers who are part of sexual minorities have a higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, compared to their heterosexual peers. That includes kids who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning. Experts said the new findings—published online Sept. 27 in the journal Pediatrics—add another layer: Those kids also start to grapple with suicidal thoughts at a younger age—with an increased risk appearing as early as age 10.
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Child restraints are high-risk interventions that can be fatal
Cornell Chronicle
Intended as a safety intervention – but high-risk and potentially fatal if used improperly – physical and mechanical restraints have resulted in the deaths of dozens of children living in out-of-home care settings since 1993, a Cornell analysis finds.
The study by the Residential Child Care Project in the College of Human Ecology’s Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research provides the only national accounting of child fatalities from restraints – such as holding down or handcuffing – that are meant to contain aggressive or violent behavior that could cause injury. No central data source exists despite many states’ regulations limiting restraints, such as banning basket holds.
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Meta-analysis: 90% of adults who are homeless experienced childhood trauma
St. Michael's Hospital via Medical Xpress
A new paper published by Unity Health Toronto researchers found most adults experiencing homelessness have faced an incredible burden of childhood trauma.
The paper, published in The Lancet Public Health, found nine in 10 homeless adults have been exposed to at least one adverse childhood experience and over half have been exposed to four or more adverse childhood experiences.Previous research in the general population has shown that those exposed to four or more childhood traumas were 17 times more likely to have attempted suicide than those who had not experienced trauma in childhood.
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Resource package for strengthening countries' health systems response to violence against women
World Health Organization
To support and guide countries and partners to strengthen a health systems response to address violence against women, WHO has produced several tools, including
clinical and policy guidelines,
implementation handbooks and manuals,
training curriculum, and
evidence-based policy, prevention and intervention strategy packages.
This resource package consolidates these documents to support countries to develop or update their national or subnational guidelines, protocols, standard operating procedures, health provider training materials, and multisectoral action plans to prevent and respond to violence against women.
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India may raise the age of marriage for girls. Not everyone thinks that's a good idea
NPR
On a hot afternoon in August, 16-year-old Punam Mitharwal finished a routine college test and made her way to the nearest post office in her northern Indian town of Hisar to send a special bit of mail. It was a short letter written in Hindi on a postcard addressed to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Half a dozen of her girlfriends accompanied her, each with a similar letter. They all contained a specific request — to raise the legal age of marriage for girls to 21.
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This molecule could be the key to understanding why concussions have such long-term effects
Smithsonian Magazine
Imagine you fall down the stairs in your house and bang your head. Or perhaps you hit your noggin during a car accident. Or maybe you are football player who has just taken yet another blow to the head. You are diagnosed with a mild or a severe concussion, and you end up in a hospital and even an ICU.
Eventually your injury heals weeks later, or so it seems, because your CT scans look clear, and you go on with your life. But in a few years, strange things start to happen. Bright lights and loud noises begin to bother you. You have trouble sleeping. You can’t concentrate, can’t keep up with your daily routine and your work performance plummets. That’s because deep within your brain, in the areas where the imaging technology can’t see, that old injury never healed. Instead, it became a chronic inflammatory process that will eventually damage your brain tissues, explains a study published this month in Science.
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