Violence against women is a major global public health issue, and experiencing violence has substantial consequences for the lives of abused women. This study aims to illustrate experiences of abuse and its influence on mental ill health among women seeking general psychiatric care. Ten women seeking general psychiatric care in southern Sweden participated in a qualitative interview study. Cont...

Location: occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) with ability to travel to all districts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 1. Background, purpose and use of the evaluation The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equa...

Received for publication: 06 Nov. 2006. Revised: 08 Mar. 2007. rEZUMat 1 2nd Department of Orthopedics and Trumatology, 2 1st Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, 3 Florida Spine Institute, Clearwater, Florida

Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common birth defects occurring 1 of every 700 live births. Historically, cleft lip and palate care typically involves the use of presurgical infant orthopedics appliances (PIOA) fabricated by a pediatric dentist as an adjunct to the overall management of the defect approximate the cleft segments prior to surgical repair. However, the necessity of presurgi...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...