Serving All Children to Catch the Most Vulnerable

Serving all children to catch the most vulnerable.

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 the Community

Introduction Organisations wishing to ensure that they provide appropriate and high quality services need to understand their entire 'customer' base (Kotler, 1997). One strategy for doing this is to segment their customer/consumer base, on the assumption that consumers are not homogeneous (Beane and Ennis, 1987) and that it is useful to identify groups of consumers on the basis of certain share...

Barriers To Serving The Vulnerable : Thoughts Of A

In an environment of limited resources, the question of who is deserving and undeserving of assistance becomes critical. Policymakers’ biases about whether a health condition is self-inflicted, as well as their perceptions about whether treatments are truly effective, play a major role—often unstated—in the allocation of resources. [Health Affairs 26, no. 5 (2007): 1358–1365; 10.1377/hlthaff.26...

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...