Supporting Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis
Credit: Jency Samuel/IPSBy Vijay MahajanHYDERABAD, India, Mar 30 2020 (IPS) Farmers, agricultural labourers, and informal sector workers are the worst hit by COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns. Here are some steps that the government and banks can take to help them cope financially. According to the last published Census of India data, there are as many as 480.2 million workers in India. Of these, only 30.3 million are in the formal sector; the remaining 93 percent includes 110.9 million farmers, 140.4 million landless agricultural workers, and 210.9 million non-agricultural workers. Almost none of them get a monthly pay...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Vijay Mahajan Tags: Asia-Pacific Headlines Health Labour TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

A typology of civilians shot and killed by US police: a latent class analysis of firearm legal intervention homicide in the 2014-2015 National Violent Death Reporting System - Wertz J, Azrael D, Berrigan J, Barber C, Nelson E, Hemenway D, Salhi C, Miller M.
Approximately 1000 people are killed by police acting in the line of duty each year. Historically, research on these deaths, known as legal intervention homicides (LIH), has been limited by data that is either contextually rich but narrow in scope and not ...
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Photos: Men are cutting their own hair in quarantine. It's not pretty
With barber shops and hair salons shuttered, men everywhere are doing DIY haircuts, with messy results.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andy Bellin Source Type: news

More businesses ordered closed in Jefferson County
The Jefferson County Department of Health has further tightened the public health order seeking to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Describing the issue as a matter of life or death, the JCDH on Sunday ordered additional non-essential businesses to close, including a variety of retail shops, barber shops and salons. Those join a list of businesses that were ordered closed last week as part of efforts to contain the virus. The list of retail shops does not include grocery stores, gas…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 23, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Fatal police shootings of civilians, by rurality - Hemenway D, Berrigan J, Azrael D, Barber C, Miller M.
In the United States, firearm homicides disproportionately occur in urban areas. We examine whether the same is true for fatal police shootings. We use data on fatal police shootings from Washington Post's "Fatal Force Database" (2015-2017). Using Census p...
Source: SafetyLit - March 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

A Little Healthcare with Your Haircut?
Features a telehealth project that launched at a barber shop in rural North Carolina, where patrons can receive a blood pressure reading after their haircut. The program hopes to expand the designation of "community anchor institutions" to barbershops and other community businesses in an effort to increase broadband in rural areas.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 4, 2020 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Development of the Substance Use Motives Measure (SUMM): a comprehensive eight-factor model for alcohol/drugs consumption - Biolcati R, Passini S.
A wide range of literature (e.g. Cooper, Kuntsche, Levitt, Barber,& Wolf, 2016) supports the assumption that substance use behaviors are driven by different needs, such as socializing with friends or escaping negative mood, that result in diverse conseque...
Source: SafetyLit - February 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

College students' perceptions of concurrent/successive nonverbal behaviors as sexual consent - King BM, Fallon MR, Reynolds EP, Williamson KL, Barber A, Giovinazzo AR.
In previous studies, researchers had students rate single nonverbal behaviors as signals conveying and inferring sexual consent. In real-life interactions, young people use an array of behaviors occurring concurrently or successively to interpret sexual co...
Source: SafetyLit - February 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Defining psychometric variables related to use of autonomous vehicles - Ge Y, Ranjbari A, Lewis EOC, Barber E, MacKenzie D.
With the goal of understanding autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption and use behavior, numerous behavioral studies and surveys have included variables intended to capture individuals' perceptions of and attitudes toward AVs. However, the selection of questions ...
Source: SafetyLit - February 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

A consensus-based management protocol for the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury based on imaging and clinical examination for use when intracranial pressure monitoring is not employed - Chesnut R, Temkin N, Videtta W, Petroni G, Lujan S, Pridgeon J, Dikmen S, Chaddock K, Barber J, Machamer J, Guadagnoli N, Hendrickson P, Aguilera S, Alanis V, Bello Quezada ME, Bautista Coronel E, Bustamante LA, Cacciatroi A, Carricondo CJ, Carvajal F, Davila R, Dominguez M, Figueroa JA, Fillipi MM, Godoy D, Gomez DC, Lacerda Gallardo AJ, Guerra Garcia JA, Zerain GF, Lavendez Cuientas LA, Lequipe C, Grajales Yuca GV, Jibaja Vega M, Kessler ME, Lopez Delgado HJ, Sandi Lora F, Mazzola AM, Maldonado RM, Mezquia de Pedro N, Martinez Zubieta JR, Mijangos Mendez JC, Mora J, Ochoa Parra JM, Pahnke PB, Paranhos J, Pinero G, Rivadeneira Pilacu án FA, Mendez Rivera MN, Romero Figueroa RL, Rubiano A, Saraguro Orozco AM, Silesky Jiménez JI, Silva Naranjo LV, Soler Morejon C, Urbina Z.
Globally, intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring use in severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) is inconsistent and susceptible to resource limitations and clinical philosophies. For situations without monitoring, there is no published comprehensive managemen...
Source: SafetyLit - February 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Elevated 1-year mortality rate in males sustaining low-energy proximal femur fractures and subgroup analysis utilizing age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity index - Schultz KA, Westcott BA, Barber KR, Sandrock TA.
INTRODUCTION: Low-energy proximal femur fractures are common in the aging population and the ability to identify patients at increased mortality risk provides surgeons information to improve informed decision-making with patients and families. We evaluated...
Source: SafetyLit - February 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Flip-flops do not alter the neuromuscular function of the gastrocnemius muscle and tendon during walking in children - Maharaj JN, Barber L, Walsh HPJ, Carty CP.
INTRODUCTION/AIM: Flip-flops are a popular choice of footwear for children. However, their inherent design provides minimal support to the foot and ankle and has been suggested to increase the work performed by muscle and tendon structures, potentially pre...
Source: SafetyLit - February 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

The effects of stereotype threat on older adults' walking performance as a function of task difficulty and resource evaluations - Barber SJ, Hamel K, Ketcham C, Lui K, Taylor-Ketcham N.
Stereotype threat occurs when people are concerned about confirming a negative stereotype about their social group, and this often leads people to underperform within the threatened domain. Although this is well-documented, the majority of prior studies ex...
Source: SafetyLit - January 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

The Rev. William Barber II Talks About His Journey
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Source: AARP.org News - January 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: news

IMPACT and CRASH prognostic models for traumatic brain injury: external validation in a South-American cohort - Wongchareon K, Thompson HJ, Mitchell PH, Barber J, Temkin N.
This study aimed to externally validate the International ...
Source: SafetyLit - January 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

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