Addressing refugee health through evidence-based policies: a case study.

The cumulative total of persons forced to leave their country for fear of persecution or organized violence reached an unprecedented 24.5 million by the end of 2015. Providing equitable access to appropriate health services for these highly diverse newcomers poses challenges for receiving countries.

Measles among migrants in the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Aims: Progress towards meeting the goal of measles elimination in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) by 2015 is being obstructed, as some children are either not immunized on time or never immunized. One group thought to be at increased risk of measles is migrants; however, the extent to which this is the case is poorly understood, due to a lack of data. This paper addresses this evidence gap by providing an overview of the burden of measles in migrant populations in the EU/EEA.

WPA guidance on mental health and mental health care in migrants.

The purpose of this guidance is to review currently available evidence on mental health problems in migrants and to present advice to clinicians and policy makers on how to provide migrants with appropriate and accessible mental health services. The three phases of the process of migration and the relevant implications for mental health are outlined, as well as the specific problems of groups such as women, children and adolescents, the elderly, refugees and asylum seekers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. The concepts of cultural bereavement, cultural identity and cultural congruity are discussed.

Body size perception in anorexia nervosa: a signal detection approach.

This study investigated whether individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) visualize themselves as fatter than they are because they perceive themselves as fatter. Females with AN who overestimated their own body size judged size differences between pictures of their own body, and then again of someone else's body. Signal detection analysis of the results showed no differences in perceptual sensitivity between the AN and normal and thin control groups.

Body perception index: benefits, pitfalls, ideas.

Estimates of body size are often expressed as a ratio of actual size [body perception index or BPI = (estimated size/actual size) x 100%]. In this article, we examine the possibility that overestimation of body size in patients with anorexia nervosa, as measured by the BPI, is due to their smaller body size rather than to their being anorexic. Using 50 mean body sizes derived from seven studies we investigated whether the error of estimation is a constant proportion of the body size to be estimated, as the use of the BPI assumes.

The influence of methodological differences on the outcome of body size estimation studies in anorexia nervosa.

A major problem that has dogged research into body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa concerns the diversity of measurement procedures employed in studies of body size estimation. Many researchers believe that results obtained with different procedures cannot meaningfully be compared with each other, because the methods used measure different aspects of the body image. A meta-analysis of 33 body size estimation studies was conducted to investigate whether methodological differences do indeed influence outcome.

Case report: an unusual cause of toothwear.

Dental practitioners often have to treat cases of toothwear, which may be caused by a number of factors including dietary erosion, physical attrition and abrasion due to friction against a foreign body. The authors encountered a young patient with a very unusual cause of toothwear, details of which are reported here.

The growth of new dental practices established in the North West of England and North Wales between 1985 and 1990.

This study examined the growth of 52 new dental practices established between 1985 and 1990 in the North West of England and North Wales. Growth was measured from the number of estimates (equivalent to a course of treatment) submitted by the practice to the Dental Practice Board since the practice first opened. Values ranged from less than 1000 estimates up to 12,000 estimates during the first 24 months; the modal value was between 2000 and 2999.