Invisible children: attempting to engage the most vulnerable families

Invisible children: attempting to engage the most vulnerable families.

Cullen et al 1 describe childhood antecedents of schizophrenia: such prospective studies are rare. Retrospective research suggests that as the number of adverse childhood experiences increases, so does the risk for health problems, including alcohol misuse, ischaemic heart disease, suicide attempts and externalising behaviours. 2,3 However, retrospective studies are prone to the biases associat...

Serving all children to catch the most vulnerable.

Gatekeeping Services for Vulnerable Children and Families

Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (in World Bank terminology, the Europe and Central Asia or ECA region) inherited a child protection system from the socialist period that placed excessive reliance on institutional care as a means of looking after children who were unable to remain with their birth parents in the shorter or longer term. Despite the collapse of the ideology ...

North America’s Most Vulnerable Pollinators

Using tracking dogs to locate wild Florida panthers, Howard and other National Zoo researchers conducted reproductive exams on many free-ranging panthers and animals that had been killed. Results indicated that the animals had severe reproductive problems, including extremely poor semen quality with low sperm numbers and high sperm abnormalities. The Florida pumas also had severe health problem...

How Do the Most Vulnerable Populations Fare?

This study examined access to care for uninsured and Medicaid-insured community health center patients in comparison to nonhealth center patients nationally. Using nationally representative data from 2 major surveys in 2002, there was a positive association between seeking care in community health centers and self-reported access to care for both uninsured and Medicaid patients. This suggests t...