introduction: in recent years spatial justice has gained special importance among planners and geographers. since the urban public services form the structure, shape and the nature of the physical, social and urban space, inequities in their distribution cause irreversible negative effects on the structure and the nature of city and social segregation of the people, and serious challenges in th...

Increasing regulation may soon cost forensic patients the opportunity to benefit from participating in research. A wise preventive strategy is the institutional use of quality assurance and related processes for regulating its internal research. Candilis and colleagues provide abundant useful information for this purpose. Additional models to consider include a centralized Institutional Review ...

This paper outlines the qualitative findings of a recent multimethod study exploring the impact of nurses assuming leadership roles in delivering primary health care to detainees within police custody suites in Scotland. The full multimethod study was conducted within a framework of realistic evaluation with key findings indicating that the nurse-led model of service delivery offers positive ou...

nova-Institut, Hürth, Germany, [email protected]; Leson & Associates, Berkeley, USA; University of Cologne, Germany; Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Würzburg, Germany; Drug & Alcohol Services South Australia, Parkside, Australia; University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Ver...

Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland Department of Social Pharmacy (Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Economics), University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland ESiOR Oy, P.O. Box 1188, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio, Finland Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuopio, Finland Department of Forensic Mental Health Science...

The psychological autopsy is an important assessment tool used to identify aspects of a person's life that explain any lingering mystery that shrouds their death. In addition to answering questions of the past, the psychological autopsy has significant implications for the future. Statistics obtained from mortality data affect the course of health care research, the flow of resources, and ultim...

Among the staples of forensic psychiatric evaluation are independent medical evaluations (IMEs) for work-related psychiatric and neuropsychiatric claims, ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to chronic pain syndromes accompanying and compounding impairment due to other medical conditions. To provide a comprehensive evaluation and an objective opinion, forensic psychiatrists must know how...

BACKGROUND Little is known about effective treatment for personality-disordered (PD) offenders. We aimed to obtain the perspective of service users and staff on: (a) the experience of receiving treatment; and (b) the experience of delivering treatment, within new forensic services for PD offenders. MATERIAL Thematic analysis was applied to qualitative interviews with 30 service users and 22 s...