BACKGROUND Mental health clinicians are frequently asked to assess the risks presented by patients making threats to kill, but there are almost no data to guide such an evaluation. METHOD This data linkage study examined serious violence following making threats to kill and the potential role of mental disorder. A total of 613 individuals convicted of threats to kill had their prior contact w...

background: since heavy metals can accumulate in the tissues of aquatic organisms, they can cause a range of hazardous effects which can become harmful to humans. the aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of some heavy metals as potential dangerous substances by assessing the mortality effects of mercuric chloride (hgcl2), lead chloride (pbcl2) and zinc sulfate (znso4) pollutan...

There is a need for more precise information on mental illness among adolescents. To date, studies of the incidence or prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in a community (Kessel, 1960; Srole et al., 1962 ; Taylor and Chave, 1964; Hare and Shaw, 1965) have failed to yield adequate information on its adolescents through not having examined the patterns of morbidity over the teenage years. The com...

High rates of mortality associated with psychiatric disorders have been extensively reviewed and quantified (Harris 1998; Neeleman 2001). The mortality gap between observed and expected deaths among people with severe mental illness (psychosis) has not improved over time, despite increased recognition of the contribution of physical comorbidity (Dembling 1999; Saha 2007). A generation of psychi...

OBJECTIVE To describe suicide rates by county size in the five geopolitical areas of Brazil. METHODS This was an ecological, descriptive study of suicide deaths in Brazil that occurred among the population 10 years of age and older in 2004-2010. Data were obtained from the National Mortality Information System of Brazil. Counties were defined by size as: very large (200,000+), large (< 200,00...

IMPORTANCE Significant progress has been made in reducing the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. However, tobacco cessation efforts have focused on the general population rather than individuals with mental illness, who demonstrate greater rates of tobacco use and nicotine dependence. OBJECTIVES To assess whether declines in tobacco use have been realized among individuals with m...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is equally provided among different socioeconomic status (SES) groups in accordance with need. To estimate the association between SES and mortality occurring 30 days after CABG surgery. DESIGN Individual socioeconomic index assigned with respect to the characteristics of the census tract of residence (level I = highes...

Despite the widespread prevalence of mental illness and the increasingly high need for mental health care, patients with mental illness continually fail to receive adequate or timely treatment. Among other reasons, stigma against and misunderstandings of mental illness prevent millions of people from promptly seeking appropriate medical attention, thereby distressing not only those affected, bu...