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Adolescent boys have higher mortality due to unintentional injury, interpersonal violence
News-Medical
A new study on gender equality in health and wellbeing in the Asia Pacific region calls for greater attention to be paid to excess mortality and health risks experienced by boys in the first 20 years of life.
According to the study, published last month in The Lancet Global Health, the SDGs have brought justified focus on girls' sexual and reproductive health and elimination of harmful practices; however, there is a need for greater attention to adolescents as well as the effects of harmful gender norms on boys.
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Creating a culturally sensitive health system
Murdoch University
Healthy mothers, on the whole, give birth to healthy children. And healthy mothers are supported physically and mentally by not only their communities, but their health practitioners and the health systems they deliver.
But what happens when the health system, which has been designed as a "one size fits all" approach, doesn’t fit?
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Groundbreaking course will train nurses to reduce trauma when gathering evidence from rape victims
The Scotsman
A groundbreaking course at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh is to train nurses to gather forensic evidence in rape investigations. The one year part-time forensic nursing course will be the first of its kind in Scotland, and will offer a unique blend of forensic work and person-centered care.
It will be delivered in partnership with NHS Lothian, the Scottish judiciary, Police Scotland and The UK Association of Forensic Nurses.
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RCMP say fighting violence against children is part of daily policing in Nunavut
CBC
Nunavut RCMP Const. Erin Power says she doesn't know how the territory's police force went so long without a dedicated unit focusing on the abuse and exploitation of children and youth.
Power has been in the territory now for a year, and she works as part of a specialized investigation team on child-related crimes. "It's a lot to handle. Just the sheer number of calls that we receive each week, each month, for assistance in other communities is definitely significant," says Power, who has a background in social work and experience working with child protection in Labrador.
The child investigation unit opened in August of 2019.
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URI College of Nursing study aims to increase intimate, sexual violence screening on college campuses
URI Today
Intimate partner violence and sexual violence are significant public health issues for women, with more than 20 percent of women sexually assaulted in their lifetime and 1.3 to five million women experiencing intimate partner violence each year. Female college students experience some of the highest rates of partner violence and sexual violence of all groups, prompting a new study by URI College of Nursing Associate Dean Kathy Hutchinson.
Her study, “Multi-level Influences of Violence Screening in College Health Centers,” is funded by a four-year, $1.2 million RO1 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It is the third RO1 grant currently funding studies in the College.
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FGCU studies the dead at 'body farm' in Pasco County
NBC2-TV
To the untrained eye, the forests and fields near the jail in rural Pasco County are unremarkable.
But what happens at the site north of Land O’ Lakes is extraordinary — and unusual.
It’s a training area called ‘FIRST’ — Florida’s Forensics Institute for Research, Security & Tactics.
It’s run by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office and brings together first responders and FGCU students to train in the world of forensic science.
A major part of the work on site: the study of dead bodies.
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Vaccine shows promise against herpes virus
University of Nebraska-Lincoln via ScienceDaily
A genetically edited form of a herpes simplex virus has outperformed a leading vaccine candidate in a new study. When challenged with a virulent strain of the sexually transmitted HSV-2, vaccinated guinea pigs displayed fewer genital lesions, less viral replication and less of the viral shedding that most readily spreads infection.
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