Exercise effects on falls, fractures, hospitalizations and mortality in older adults with dementia: an individual-level patient data meta-analysis - de Souto Barreto P, Maltais M, Rosendahl E, Vellas B, Bourdel-Marchasson I, Lamb SE, Pitk älä K, Rolland Y.
BACKGROUND: To study the effects of exercise on falls, fractures, hospitalizations and death in people with dementia. METHODS: We conducted an individual-level patient data meta-analysis of seven randomized controlled trials (RCT). We looked for studie...
Source: SafetyLit - December 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Fall prevention in older people and their families: a qualitative synthesis - de la Cuesta-Benjumea C, Arredondo-Gonz ález CP, Lidón-Cerezuela B, Abad-Corpa E.
OBJECTIVE: To analyse and synthesize the evidence on fall prevention of people older than 65 years and their family care providers METHOD: Qualitative synthesis, which is a part of a convergent systematic integrative review. Forty-one qualitative studie...
Source: SafetyLit - December 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Suicide and suicidality in somatic symptom and related disorders: a systematic review - Torres ME, Lowe B, Schmitz S, Pienta JN, van der Feltz-Cornelis C, Fiedorowicz JG.
OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the frequency of and risk factors for suicide outcomes in somatic symptom and related disorders and whether any risk was independent of co-occurring mental disorders. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of studie...
Source: SafetyLit - November 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Interprofessional collaborative practice for child maltreatment prevention in Japan: a literature review - Ishii M, Honda J, Shimizu A, Mitani R, Uchimura R, Hashimoto M, Ide H, Takada S.
This literature review explored the factors promoting interprofessional collaborative practice for the child maltreatment prevention in Japan. We searched the Japanese database of ICHUSHI-web, focusing on studies published between 1990 and 2015. The studie...
Source: SafetyLit - October 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Traumatic brain injuries and problem gambling in youth: Evidence from a population-based study of secondary students in Ontario, Canada - Turner NE, Cook S, Shi J, Elton-Marshall T, Hamilton H, Ilie G, Wickens CM, McDonald AJ, Trajtenberg N, Cusimano MD, Mann RE.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is characterized by a change in brain function after an external force or sudden movement to the head. TBI is associated with risk-taking, impulsivity, psychological distress, substance abuse, and violent crime. Previous studie...
Source: SafetyLit - October 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Gender differences in the association between positive drinking attitudes and alcohol-related problems. the WIRUS study - Hashemi NS, Th ørrisen MM, Skogen JC, Sagvaag H, Gimeno Ruiz de Porras D, Aas RW.
BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption is deeply integrated in people's social- and work lives and, thus, constitutes a serious public health challenge. Attitudes toward drinking stand out as important predictors of drinking, but have to date been sparsely studie...
Source: SafetyLit - August 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Physical conditions in primary schools in some Middle Eastern countries - a comparative study - Alharaki O, K üçükoğlu A.
The study aims to identify the physical conditions of primary schools in the Middle East. The sample of the study consisted of five countries: Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. Countries were selected through the sample of intent, and the studie...
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Vibration serviceability of footbridges: classical vs. innovative material solutions for deck slabs - Drygala IJ, Dulinska JM, Ciura R, Lachawiec K.
In this study, the human-induced dynamic performance of modern footbridges equipped with either classical reinforced concrete (RC) or innovative glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite deck slabs were investigated and compared. The numerical studie...
Source: SafetyLit - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

The impact of rape myths and current events on the well-being of sexual violence survivors - Anderson GD, Overby R.
Rape myths perpetuate blaming survivors of sexual violence for their own victimization. Although research has explored how public and political discourse, current events, and media coverage of sexual violence impacts the well-being of survivors, few studie...
Source: SafetyLit - July 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Fifty years of Accident Analysis & Prevention: a bibliometric and scientometric overview - Zou X, Vu HL, Huang H.
Accident Analysis& Prevention (AA&P) is a leading academic journal established in 1969 that serves as an important scientific communication platform for road safety studies. To celebrate its 50th anniversary of publishing outstanding and insightful studie...
Source: SafetyLit - June 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

Initial indicators of the public health impacts of non-medical cannabis legalization in Canada - Fischer B, Lee A, O'Keefe-Markman C, Hall W.
On 17 October 2018, Canada implemented the legalization of non- medical use and supply of cannabis - a significant policy reform mile- stone internationally. Canada was the first high-income nation to do so with a public health rationale [1]. As studie...
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

International Olympic Committee consensus statement: Methods for Recording and Reporting of Epidemiological Data on Injury and Illness in Sports 2020 (including the STROBE Extension for Sports Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS)) - Bahr R, Clarsen B, Derman W, Dvorak J, Emery CA, Finch CF, H ägglund M, Junge A, Kemp S, Khan KM, Marshall SW, Meeuwisse W, Mountjoy M, Orchard JW, Pluim B, Quarrie KL, Reider B, Schwellnus M, Soligard T, Stokes KA, Timpka T, Verhagen E, Bindra A, Budgett R, Engebretsen L, Erdener U, Chamari K.
BACKGROUND: Injury and illness surveillance, and epidemiological studies, are fundamental elements of concerted efforts to protect the health of the athlete. To encourage consistency in the definitions and methodology used, and to enable data across studie...
Source: SafetyLit - March 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Epidemiology of acute injuries in surfing: type, location, mechanism, severity, and incidence: a systematic review - McArthur K, Jorgensen D, Climstein M, Furness J.
Prospective and retrospective studies have examined traumatic injuries within competitive and recreational surfers worldwide using online surveys and health care facility (HCF; e.g., hospital, emergency department, medical record) data. However, few studie...
Source: SafetyLit - February 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Local nonprofit sending aid to China in face of coronavirus outbreak
A Pittsburgh foundation is sending help to Wuhan, China, the city where the contagious and deadly coronavirus was first traced. Brother's Brother Foundation, a 61-year-old aid agency that started more than 60 years ago to help end polio and smallpox, is sending donated medical supplies and protective equipment, according to a release. Locally, BBF is working with the Pittsburgh Chinese Cultural Center and the Asian Studie s cCenter at the University of Pittsburgh to ensure the aid will get where…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 30, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mike Larson Source Type: news

A generalized Bayesian traffic model - Zhu Z, Zhu S, Zheng Z, Yang H.
The rapid growth of transportation data offers new opportunities to analyze the interaction between travel behavior and transportation system performance, and particularly when issues such as uncertainty and reliability are considered. Many previous studie...
Source: SafetyLit - December 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

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