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NEW! Speak Up. Speak Out. Join Us for Advocacy Day 2022!
Join the International Association of Forensic Nurses in Washington DC (or virtually) for our annual Advocacy Day. This free, members-only training is included as a perk of membership! Come network with other forensic nurses, build your leadership skills, meet your Congressional representatives, and influence decisions that impact the future of forensic nursing. Register today.
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Child Maltreatment Prevention: Essentials for the Forensic Nurse
Presented by Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P
Child maltreatment is a serious problem with the potential for lifelong physical and mental health consequences, even death. Pediatric healthcare providers, especially forensic nurses, are uniquely positioned not only to identify potential victims of child maltreatment but also to prevent child maltreatment prior to its occurrence. Join us for this educational session to discuss practice level child maltreatment prevention interventions, both universal and targeted.
Note: This session is FREE for members. 1.5 Contact Hours.
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Shedding light on the shadow brain pandemic: The devastating effects of gendered violence-related acquired brain injury
Psychiatric Times
Violence against women, which often results in traumatic brain injury and other acquired brain injuries, has intensified during the COVID pandemic. Violence against women is a clear violation of human rights and a legal and moral failure of society. It likewise contributes to the brain health gap as well as presents as a major economic problem. As the world struggles to emerge from COVID-induced health and economic decline, women are a major key to the economic recovery. A comprehensive and long-term strategy is required to shed light on and address this dire issue and to ensure the mental well-being women as well as unlock the power of women to drive the economic recovery.
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16 days of activism against gender-based violence
UN Women
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until Dec. 10, Human Rights Day. It was started by activists at the inaugural Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991 and continues to be coordinated each year by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. It is used as an organizing strategy by individuals and organizations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.
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Study: Youth in poor areas more likely to die from gun violence
U.S. News & World Report
New research finds gun violence disproportionately impacts young people living in low-income counties, and that the risk of dying from firearms rises as the concentration of poverty in those communities increases.
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found 62 percent of the more than 67,000 firearm-related deaths that occurred among youth between the ages of five and 24 from 2007 to 2016 occurred in counties where the percentage of residents who lived below the federal poverty level was 15 percent or greater.
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How inequality drives HIV in adolescent girls and young women
The Conversation
Despite the advances that have been made against HIV, the world has 37 million people living with HIV. And 680,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2020. While the prevention of mother to child transmission, and provision of treatment as prevention, are great successes, there are still gaps. Over 1.5 million new HIV infections were recorded in 2020.
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Over 40% of military sexual misconduct class action claims are from men
Global News
More than 40 percent of the nearly 19,000 claims submitted by survivors and victims of military sexual misconduct are from men, says Gen. Wayne Eyre.
In an interview with The West Block's Mercedes Stephenson, Eyre said the scope of the claims submitted through that process demonstrate the fact that the problem is one that everyone in the Canadian Forces must work to address — even though there are no easy answers.
“The scope speaks to the depth of the issue,” Eyre said.
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Strengthening the health system response to violence against women in Maharashtra, India
World Health Organization
A young 27-year-old doctor is incredulous about his former low awareness regarding violence against women, despite treating survivors in the busy medical college hospital where he works in the state of Maharashtra in western India.
“I never looked at health complaints of female patients in the context of violence. Now, I know what I should do, and what should I say to make women comfortable,” said the doctor from District General Hospital, Sangli. He is one of over 200 health care providers trained in a new pilot conducted in three hospitals in Maharashtra between July 2018 and April 2019. The research study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of rolling out the WHO clinical and policy guidelines to strengthen the ability of health providers to respond to domestic violence, including intimate partner violence, experienced by women.
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Pharmacies could play a crucial role in supporting victims of domestic and sexual abuse
University of Bristol
Pharmacies could play a crucial role in identifying and referring victims of domestic and sexual violence and abuse to specialist services but need ongoing training, support and adequate funding to do so, according to researchers from the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol and National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West.
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New study sheds light on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying non-suicidal self-injury
PsyPost
New research highlights the complexity of neurobiological abnormalities associated with non-suicidal self-injury — behaviors like cutting oneself without intending to die. The findings, published in Development and Psychopathology, indicate that severe self-injury behavior among adolescent girls is related to alterations in brain activity and physiological stress responses.
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Sussex-led study finds stronger correlation between heat, humidity and suicide among women and youth
University of Sussex
For a number of years now empirical evidence has suggested that the effects of human-caused climate change, and heat in particular, could have a significant impact on mental health. For example, previous links between heatwaves and temperature increase and suicide have been made in countries such as Australia, the U.S., Mexico, India, Finland as well as England and Wales.
However, new research investigating the relationship between suicide and heat on a global level has found that temperature alone may not be enough to understand the risks posed by a rapidly changing climate but that humidity also must be considered.
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Recognize and respond: White Book update guides GPs
NewsGP
The statistics on family and domestic violence in Australia are sobering. It is why RACGP President Dr. Karen Price believes GPs have an ongoing and important role in identifying and providing support for patients experiencing abuse and violence.
"Australia has been in the grips of a domestic violence and abuse crisis for a long time, and the pandemic has made matters worse," she said.
"As a practicing GP, I’ve seen how the pandemic has impacted relationships and families, with many facing isolation, financial pressures, and the burden of home schooling.
It’s a perfect storm for people living with abusive or violent partners or other family members."
To further support GPs in assessment, management and prevention, the RACGP has launched the fifth edition of Abuse and violence: Working with our patients in general practice (White Book).
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