BACKGROUND Intersectoral costs and benefits (ICBs), i.e. costs and benefits of healthcare interventions outside the healthcare sector, can be a crucial component in economic evaluations from the societal perspective. Pivotal to their estimation is the existence of sound resource-use measurement (RUM) instruments; however, RUM instruments for ICBs in the education or criminal justice sectors hav...

BACKGROUND Family planning has been defined in the framework of mothers and children plan as one of Primary Healthcare (PHC) details. Besides quantity, the quality of services, particularly in terms of ethics, such as observing individuals' privacy, is of great importance in offering family planning services. OBJECTIVE A preliminary study to gather information about the degree of medical ethi...

ObjectivesTo compare the use of NHS services for mental health and substance (MH/SU) between people released from prison general population. This paper describes data linkage analytical process, discusses policy implications highlights methodological contributions future administrative research in public justice.
 MethodsRetrospective cohort study using linked Scottish Prison Service (SPS)...

Summary  Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a frequent finding in cases of facial trauma or dental malpractice, and legal claims for TMD damage have been increased over the years. Temporomandibular disorders assessment in the medical legal setting is complicated by the peculiarities of these disorders, whose symptoms are heterogeneous, fluctuant, and recognise a multifactorial origin. A syst...

BACKGROUND Offenders with a mental illness are routinely excluded from vocational services due to their mental health. Employment has shown to be very important in improving mental health, reducing recidivism, and connecting people to society. This study examines the effectiveness of an established intervention which is relatively untested in this population, Individual Placement and Support (I...

The ophthalmologists together with all other health care providers are today under greater scrutiny than before as the public we serve is more literate, more educated and has easy access to infinite online information. In other words, the public is more aware of possible medical negligence. The days are gone when the doctor was considered next to the Supreme Being. In spite of super specializat...

Project title: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment Project number: 244779 Programme: Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development Objective: SiS-2009-1.1.2.1: Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: ethical, social and legal aspects. Contract type: Collaborative project Star...

from lightning and electricity, on starvation, on asphyxial deaths, on suicide, lunacy and lifeassurance are all most complete and thorough expositions of the subject. The second volume opens with a masterly discussion of 322 pages, on all questions of sexual medical jurisprudence, and following this are some 500 more pages on toxicology. It is hard to say which are the best parts of this work,...

In the UK schools are required by law to protect students from bullying; the responsibility of teachers to govern such behaviour has been extended outside the school setting to include cyberbullying. In this investigation, cyberbullying in secondary education is explored from the student perspective using a qualitative method of enquiry. Reported awareness and understanding about the legal aspe...