background informal payments for health care, which are common in many countries, can have negative effects on health care access, equity and health status as they lead people to forgo or delay seeking care, or to sell assets to pay for care. many countries are putting reforms in place with the aim of reducing informal payments. in order to be successful, such policies should be informed by the...

background & aim: prenatal care is a key strategy for achieving public health goals, primary healthcare objectives, and the millennium development goals. the aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the use of prenatal care services in order to design suitable interventions and promote the use of these services. methods:in this systematic quantitative literature review, stud...

Background & aim: Forensic midwifery is a new major which has been established in response to the need of endangered women for forensic services and also the lack of service provision in this domain. However, there are ambiguities in the definition of this major and its scope of practice. The present study was conducted to investigate the scope of practice in forensic ...

BACKGROUND The Ugandan government recognizes mental health as a serious public health and development concern, and has of recent implemented a number of reforms aimed at strengthening the country's mental health system. The aim of this study was to provide a profile of the current mental health policy, legislation and services in Uganda. METHODS A survey was conducted of public sector mental ...

BACKGROUND A sexual assault referral centre (SARC) is a model of service established to address the forensic and therapeutic needs arising following sexual assault. As yet, only a minority of urban areas in England are served by one, the rest of the United Kingdom (UK) being served by police victim examination suites. OBJECTIVE To examine variations in service offered to complainants of sexua...

Baseline data from a study of jail diversion services and in-jail behavioral health services were used to examine the differences in clients served by these two models of responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in the criminal justice system. Clients of the diversion service had more acute psychiatric symptoms and were more likely to have a diagnosis of...

From 1987 until 1996, the Human Investigation Committee of the Whiting Forensic Institute (WFI), the maximum-security hospital of the State of Connecticut, reviewed and approved 52 research protocols. Most (45/52 or 87%) were implemented, resulting in the completion of five master’s theses, three doctoral dissertations, and more than 36 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the Amer...

Data sources The authors searched ASSlA, CINAHL, the Cochrane Trials Register, Embase, HealthSTAR, Medline, PsycLit, the Science Citation Index, SIGLE and personal files for studies published in English between January 1983 and October 2000. The authors sought grey literature and other unpublished literature from UK Health Authorities. Experts in the field were asked to identify omissions from ...

We hypothesized that the integration of forensic psychiatrists and the forensic system into the general stream of mental health should lead to better reintegration of forensic patients into the society. The aims of the study were to explore the link between violence, murder, psychiatric disorders and other variables, and to suggest a mode of prevention of criminal recidivism. This investigation...