Youth Who Have Lived in Alternative Care in Nigeria, Zambia, and Zimbabwe: Mental Health and Violence Outcomes in Nationally Representative Data.

Objective: We explore whether having previously lived in alternative care (foster, kinship, and/or residential care) is linked to sexual risk-taking, mental health, and experiencing violence in Nigerian, Zambian, and Zimbabwean youth ages 13-17 living in households with or without their biological parents, and assess the utility and limitations of existing data.

Method: This study is a secondary analysis of nationally-representative Violence Against Children Surveys (N=6,405). Logistic regressions examined the effect of alternative care experience on the odds of poor outcomes, controlling for covariates including parental care status, orphanhood, and household assets.

Incorporating Safety and Quality Measures Into Australia's Activity-Based Funding of Public Hospital Services.

In a bid to improve quality of care, numerous countries have incorporated rewards and penalties into the funding and pricing of hospital services. This paper outlines recent advances in Australia to incorporate financial penalties for hospital acquired complications (HACs) and avoidable hospital readmissions (AHRs) adjustments into the funding of public hospital services. It describes the work in the development of suitable measures to identify episodes, the design of the analytical approach used for risk adjustment and the calculation of the funding implications including dampening effects to account for the level of risk.

Child maltreatment and protection in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A scoping review.

Background: Research on child maltreatment and protection in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-is limited but growing, as is child protection as a sector.

Objectives: We aimed to identify themes and gaps in existing research on child maltreatment and protection, identify opportunities for building capacity in research and practice.

Participants And Setting: N/A.

Investigating Outcomes of a Family Strengthening Intervention for Resettled Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study.

Pre- and post-migration stressors can put resettled refugee children at risk of poor mental health outcomes. The Family Strengthening Intervention for Refugees (FSI-R) is a peer-delivered preventative home visiting program for resettled refugees that aims to draw upon families' strengths to foster improved family communication, positive parenting, and caregiver-child relationships, with the ultimate goal of reducing children's risk of mental health problems. Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, this study draws upon qualitative interviews with caregivers (n = 19) and children (n = 17) who participated in a pilot study of the FSI-R intervention in New England, as well as interventionists (n = 4), to unpack quantitative findings on mental health and family functioning from a randomized pilot study (n = 80 families).

Parental care status and sexual risk behavior in five nationally-representative surveys of sub-Saharan African nations.

Background: About 10% of children worldwide do not live with either of their biological parents, and although some of these children are orphans, many have living parents. While research shows that orphaned children in Sub-Saharan Africa tend to engage in more sexual risk behaviors than their peers, possibly due to decreased parental oversight and support, it is unclear if these effects also apply to children separated from their living parents. Exploring the question of whether living without parents, regardless of whether they are deceased, is linked to greater sexual risk-taking, this study is the first, to our knowledge, to examine correlates of parental care status in a multi-country, nationally-representative analysis.

On the Way to a Trisanionic {Cu O } Core for Oxidase Catalysis: Evidence of an Asymmetric Trinuclear Precursor Stabilized by Perfluoropinacolate Ligands.

Cu complexes of the form K[(R P)Cu(pin )], in which (pin ) is the bidentate, oxygen-donating ligand perfluoropinacolate, were synthesized and characterized. Low-temperature oxygenation of the K[(R P)Cu(pin )(PR )] species resulted in a trisanionic bis(μ -oxo) trinuclear copper(II,II,III) core characterized by UV/Vis spectroscopy (λ [nm] = 330, 535, 630), cryospray-ionization mass spectrometry, and X-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (derivative resonance at 3300 G, Δm =2 at 1500 G). The kinetic behavior of the trimeric {Cu O } species was quantified by stopped-flow spectroscopy and the associated electronic structures were investigated by DFT calculations.

Using linkage between hospital and ABS mortality data to enhance reporting of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Objective: To investigate the potential of record linkage between the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) mortality data and the NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection (APDC) to improve reporting of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Methods: ABS mortality data for 2002 to 2006 were linked with APDC records for 2001 to 2006. Six algorithms were developed to enumerate deaths.

Newborn feeding practices at the time of discharge from hospital in NSW in 2007: a descriptive study.

Objectives: To describe the pattern of infant feeding at discharge from care after birth and the characteristics of mothers who are at risk of low rates of breastfeeding.

Methods: Data were obtained from the NSW Midwives Data Collection for 2007. Information on infant feeding was obtained for babies who were alive at discharge from care after birth.