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KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing the Teen Death Rate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Reviews data on causes of teen deaths and outlines strategies for improving motor vehicle safety; preventing violence, risky behavior, and suicide; supporting role models; and enhancing families' and communities' capacity to support healthy ...
Barbara Shore, Rima Shore
core  

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Bad Nature, Bad Nurture, and Testimony Regarding MAOA and SLC6A4 Genotyping in Murder Trials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recent research—in which subjects were studied longitudinally from childhood until adulthood—has started to clarify how a child’s environment and genetic makeup interact to create a violent adolescent or adult.
Bernet, William   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

ANALYSIS OF VITAL POTENTIAL LOSSES DUE TO VIOLENT MORTALITY IN THE ARKHANGELSK REGION

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2014
Aim was to study vital potential losses due to violent mortality in the Arkhangelsk region from 1980 to 2012.Materials and methods. Сomputation of vital potential losses due to premature death from external causes was conducted on the basis of mortality ...
Zhanna Leonidovna Varakina
doaj   +1 more source

[Does clinical depression increase the risk of death from non-violent causes?].

open access: yesSalud publica de Mexico, 1994
Studies of the effect of depression on life expectancy have found controversial results. In the past, an excess mortality was attributed to conditions seen at psychiatric institutions. More recently, in addition to an excess mortality due to violent causes of death, some studies also found excess mortality due to non-violent and all-cause mortality ...
V H, Borja-Aburto   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mortality and causes of death among patients with opioid use disorder receiving opioid agonist treatment: a national register study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Mortality rates and causes of death among individuals in opioid agonist treatment (OAT) vary according to several factors such as geographical region, age, gender, subpopulations, drug culture and OAT status.
Anne Berit Bech   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Helmeted hornbill cranial kinesis: Balancing mobility and stability in a high‐impact joint

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Prokinesis—in which a craniofacial joint allows the rostrum to move relative to the braincase—is thought to confer diverse advantages in birds, mostly for feeding. A craniofacial joint would, however, be a weak link if cranial stability is important. Paradoxically, we have identified a craniofacial joint in helmeted hornbills (Rhinoplax vigil),
Mike Schindler   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The adult mortality profile by cause of death in 10 Latin American countries (2000–2016)

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Objective. To investigate the adult mortality profile from eight causes of death in 10 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay) from 2000 to 2016. Methods.
Júlia Almeida Calazans   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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