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Health Promot Pract
January 2025
Collective Justice Consulting, New York, NY, USA.
Background: While cultural competency has been recognized as an important feature in health care delivery, evaluating intervention effectiveness is often overlooked.
Methods: This project used an explanatory sequential mixed methods study design within a community-based participatory research structure. A 29-item Organization cultural competency Checklist was created and distributed to a purposive sample of staff at 55 New York State (NYS) Department of Health AIDS Institute-funded health and human service providers.
J Rural Health
January 2025
Drug Use & Behavior Lab, Department of Health Behavior, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA.
Background: Recent legislative initiatives in the United States have focused on the medical and legal status of psychedelics, prompting interest in understanding public perceptions of their risks. This study investigates rural-urban differences in the perception of LSD and cannabis risks using national survey data.
Methods: Data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) between 2015 and 2021 were analyzed.
Crim Behav Ment Health
December 2024
Psychological Services, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, UK.
Background: The term neurodiversity is an umbrella term for any atypical pattern of cognitive ability, including but not confined to neurodevelopmental disorders. Research suggests that several neurodivergent conditions are overrepresented in offender populations, with a recent survey suggesting that over half of those coming into contact with the criminal justice system may have a neurodivergent condition. Considerable effort has been invested in trying to divert people with such conditions out of long-stay hospitals, but nevertheless, a few studies in secure hospitals suggest that while prevalence in hospitals may be lower than in prisons, it is high relative to the general population.
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March 2025
Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Research suggests that previously burglarized targets, and targets located near such locations, are at an increased risk of being victimized. However, this elevated risk is only temporary and appears to subside over time. The boost account is one theory that attempts to describe the occurrence of repeat, and near repeat, burglaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Gynaecol Obstet
December 2024
Centre for Justice, Law and Society, Jindal Global Law School, O.P Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
In Asia as elsewhere, strict regulations on who is authorized to provide abortion services and to prescribe or dispense medical abortion adversely impact access, especially for marginalized persons and residents in remote areas. The WHO's 2022 Abortion Care Guideline provides an important framework for states to formulate and implement policies to serve sexual and reproductive rights of access to abortion services. The Guideline calls for decriminalization of abortion services to increase authorization to provide abortion services and to promote self-managed medical abortion.
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