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The (dis)continuity of breastfeeding care in prison: perception of health professionals and managers.
Rev Gaucha Enferm
January 2025
Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém. Pará. Brasil.
Objective: to describe the perception of health professionals and managers in the prison system regarding the continuity of breastfeeding care for lactating women deprived of liberty.
Method: descriptive-exploratory research, qualitative approach, developed in a prison unit in Rio de Janeiro from December 2022 to January 2023. Interviewees: five health professionals and two managers.
Maternity behind and beyond bars: analysis from the perspective of protection bioethics.
Rev Bras Enferm
January 2025
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Objective: to analyze how motherhood is expressed in female prison units from the perspective of Bioethics of Protection.
Method: qualitative research with an ethnographic approach, developed in two women's prison units. Participantes were: six mothers deprived of liberty, 15 health professionals, and nine prison officers.
Perceptions of children and young people in England on the smokefree generation policy: a focus group study.
Nicotine Tob Res
December 2024
Nottingham Centre for Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, UK.
Background: Modelling shows smokefree generation (SFG) policies could effectively reduce smoking rates by banning tobacco sales to those born after a specific year. Little is known about how young people perceive the legitimacy and impact of the planned SFG policy in England.
Methods: We conducted 7 semi-structured focus groups with 36 participants aged 12 - 21 (mean = 15) in England over video call and in person.
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Comorbidities on Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Recurrence After Image-Guided Superficial Radiation Therapy.
Cancers (Basel)
December 2024
Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine, Winter Garden, FL 34787, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) are the most common type of cancer in the U.S., and image-guided superficial radiation therapy (IGSRT) effectively treats them, but the influence of patient comorbidities and socioeconomic status (SES) on treatment outcomes has been under-researched.
- A large retrospective study analyzed nearly 20,000 NMSC lesions to determine how SES and comorbidity levels (using ADI and CCI metrics) affected recurrence rates after IGSRT, finding minimal differences in outcomes for both factors at 2, 4, and 6 years.
- Results showed that neither SES nor comorbidity burden significantly impacted recurrence rates, suggesting that I
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act.
Int J Law Psychiatry
December 2024
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Electronic address:
How should a society strike a balance between the objective of ensuring safety from dangers that may be posed by individuals believed to have a mental disorder and the deprivation of their liberty? How should police officers discharge their duties in apprehending such individuals with a view to conveying them to a medical practitioner at a psychiatric institution? These legal issues took centrestage in the Singapore High Court decision of Mah Kiat Seng v Attorney-General in which the apprehended individual brought claims in false imprisonment against a police officer. The decision examined the underlying purposes of the Singapore Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act, the right of the person to be informed of the grounds of apprehension, the bases of the police officer's belief that the person posed a danger to himself or others, and the circumstances in which the police officers may be entitled to immunity from liability to civil or criminal proceedings. The High Court judgment led to statutory amendments to clarify police duties when apprehending such individuals and discussions about enhancements to police training and crisis support services for persons with mental illnesses.
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