Although the ®eld of risk assessment has made tremendous advances in the past 20 years, assessments of targeted violence continue to pose a signi®cant challenge to law enforcement, mental health, and other professionals. These speci®c and critical assessments require an innovative approach. The threat assessment model, developed and re®ned by the U.S. Secret Service, provides a useful framework...

This is a Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report on injuries in children and older people. The evidence of proven and promising strategies for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and the older people is considerable. Legislative, environmental modification and educational approaches all have a part to play in preventing or reducing childhood injuries, and their interact...

IMPORTANCE Surgical disease is a global health priority, and improving surgical care requires local capacity building. Single-institution partnerships and surgical missions are logistically limited. The Alliance for Global Clinical Training (hereafter the Alliance) is a consortium of US surgical departments that aims to provide continuous educational support at the Muhimbili University of Healt...

Erratum Background The INTEGRATE study investigates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a “Personalized Prevention Approach for Cardiometabolic risk” (PPA CMR). This is a combination of an online risk estimation as used in the Dutch guideline ‘the Prevention consultation’ (Dutch PC-guideline) [1] and a tailored lifestyle intervention. The different steps of PPA CMR are described in our ...

The National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) found that observing nature and participating in physical activity in green spaces plays an important role in positively influencing human health and well-being. Exercise in green places is associated with positive health outcomes, which exceed those experienced from exercising in environments lacking nature (i.e. indoors). If 1% of the sedentary populat...

Preventive detention schemes that aim to protect the community from certain 'dangerous' individuals have long existed. While risk assessment is now pervasive in the management and treatment of many individuals, it raises particular issues when a person's liberty is at stake on the basis of what that person might do. This R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture addresses the ethical issues raised by mental ...

Background: Many studies have highlighted poor understanding of risk and probability in NHS service users. By contrast, few studies have explored whether health professionals share similar conceptual difficulties. The current study is an attempt to address this issue within the field of mental health. Aims: The principal aim of the study is to test knowledge of basic probability across a range ...

BACKGROUND Ethnic minority and native Dutch groups with a low socioeconomic status (SES) are underrepresented in cardiometabolic health checks, despite being at higher risk. We investigated response and participation rates using three consecutive inexpensive-to-costly culturally adapted invitation steps for a health risk assessment (HRA) and further testing of high-risk individuals during preve...

There are several terms that identify proposed paradigms for the way things ought to be carried out in the health sciences: evidence-based, cause-and-effect, diagnostic gold-standard, patient-centred-outcomes, risk assessment, cost/benefit/risk, and efficacious/effective. Collectively these paradigms exhibit varying degrees of interdependence, and have the potential for changing the way dentist...