1QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia 2School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 4University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia 5School of Social & Community Medicine, University...

Correctional and forensic mental health systems throughout the country are routinely called on to manage and provide treatment for mentally ill prison inmates. This study identifies criminal justice and mental health predictors of general re-arrest and re-arrest for violence in seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons leaving prison in New York State. Both length and diversity of criminal history p...

The demand for cloud computing is increasing because of the popularity of digital devices and the wide use of the Internet. Among cloud computing services, most consumers use cloud storage services that provide mass storage. This is because these services give them various additional functions as well as storage. It is easy to access cloud storage services using smartphones. With increasing uti...

background: to reduce traffic injuries in the country, health professionals should have accurate estimates of road traffic deaths. multiple and sometimes inconsistent statistics presented by organizations in charge create high degree of uncertainty for planners and decision makers. to achieve an accurate estimate, several methods are available. of them, capture-recapture method seems to be an a...

Background and Objectives: Induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. Apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

Recent advances in analytical techniques have enabled the detection of drugs and drug metabolites in alternative biological specimens for the purposes of workplace testing. A wide variety of specimens are available, each providing valuable information concerning prior or current drug use. The present focus is on oral fluid (saliva), hair, and sweat. An extensive evaluation by the Division of Wo...

One of the tasks for forensic psychiatrists is to clear up the relationship between violent crimes and mental disorders. The defendant cannot be blamed in cases where delusions have influenced his/her behavior decisively. In such cases, the defendant’s criminal responsibility should be carefully evaluated according to the psychiatric evidence. It is possible for the defendant with untreated sch...

  Background Elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. The present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in Fars province (Iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide.   Methods This survey was a cross-sectional study. The demographic data were collected from the civil status registry be...

1. Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital R. Poincaré, Paris, France 2. Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Parakou, Benin 3. Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital R. Poincaré Garches, France 4. Laboratory of Medical Ethics and Forensic Medicine, University of Paris, Paris, France African Health Sciences 2012; (4): 443 445 http:...