Falling through the Cracks: Digital Infrastructures of Social Protection in Ecuador

Falling Between the Cracks

"Falling Through the Cracks:" Young Adults, Drugs, and Incarceration.

As a clinician working with high-risk youths in New York City, many of whom are justice-involved and substance users, I applaud Welty et al. for their illuminating article in the May issue of AJPH. Their study revealed many noteworthy findings, including the declining prevalence of substance-use disorders (SUDs) among justice-involved youths from about 50% at baseline to nearly 20% 12 years lat...

Applied public health research - falling through the cracks?

BACKGROUND There is a degree of dissonance between the types of evaluative research required by organisations providing or commissioning health care, those recommended by organisations developing evidence-based guidance, and those which research funding bodies are prepared to support. METHODS We present a case study of efforts to establish a pragmatic but robust evaluation of local exercise r...

Falling through the cracks--Virginia Tech and the restructuring of college mental health services.

n engl j med 357;2 www.nejm.org july 12, 2007 105 facts about his mental health history have emerged. At various points during Cho’s college career, Virginia Tech police officers, professors, and students recognized that he was mentally troubled, but although state psychiatric evaluators once briefly committed him to a psychiatric hospital, it is unclear whether anyone from the school monitored...

Fragmented Digital Infrastructures - The Case of Social (News) Media

Digitization and contemporary use of social media platforms is changing how we perceive and use IT, both in organizations and as citizens or consumers. These developments have also transformed and changed many industries, bringing both opportunities and challenges. One industry that was affected by digitization relatively early is the media industry, leading to studies on online journalism, gat...