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Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared to the general population: a nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjectives University students are experiencing a significant rise in self-harm and mental health conditions. However, no prior studies have compared their mental health trajectories with those of non-students.
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35, 2022 To act safely and ethically in the real world, agents must be able to reason about harm and avoid harmful actions. However, to date there is no statistical method for measuring harm and factoring it into algorithmic decisions. In this paper we propose the first formal definition of harm and benefit using causal models.
Jonathan G. Richens +2 more
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To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol's Harms to Others [PDF]
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2015 Objective To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by othersș and one's own drinking. Data and Methods Data from the 2011 Danish ...
K. Seid, Abdu +3 more
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"Cloning Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful [PDF]
2006 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2006 Current literature on the topic of duplicated (cloned) code in software systems often considers duplication harmful to the system quality and the reasons commonly cited for duplicating code often have a negative connotation. While these positions are sometimes correct, during our case studies we have found that this is not universally true, and we have
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey
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The harms of promoting ‘Zero Harm’ [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2019 In this issue, Amalberti and Vincent1 ask ‘what strategies we might adopt to protect patients when healthcare systems and organizations are under stress and simply cannot provide the standard of care they aspire to’. This is clearly a critical and much overdue question, as many healthcare organisations are in an almost constant state of stress from ...
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The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2023 AbstractThe Harm Threshold (HT) holds that the state may interfere in medical decisions parents make on their children’s behalf only when those decisions are likely to cause serious harm to the child. Such a high bar for intervention seems incompatible with both parental obligations and the state’s role in protecting children’s well-being.
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, 2022 This thesis considers two interrelated questions that have seen a renewed interest in the jurisprudential literature: (1) what does it mean to suffer harm, and (2) do those exposed to a risk of harm suffer harm solely in virtue of that exposure. Part 1 of the thesis provides an answer to the first question. Specifically, in Section 1 of Part 1, I argue
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Brass screens are considered an essential part of the safer drug smoking/inhalation supplies and are widely distributed by harm reduction programs in Canada.
Bradley J. Diak +3 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2021 Background In preparation for the 2021 revision of the European Union Tobacco Products Directive, the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) has posted its Preliminary Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes.
Renée O’Leary +3 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background In 2016, the US state of North Carolina (NC) legalized syringe services programs (SSPs), providing limited immunity from misdemeanor syringe possession when law enforcement is presented documentation that syringes were obtained from an SSP ...
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