traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a significant public health concern in our country, because of placing in top three most common causes of death and substantial direct and indirect costs to society. the incidence of tbi in our country is 1.7 times of international incidence. traumatic brain injury induced by primary and secondary mechanisms that give rise to death and neurologic morbidity in pat...

In 2002, over 110 000 people entered Britain to seek asylum—a 250% increase in five years. Children, who comprise at least a quarter of asylum seekers, are exposed to numerous risk factors for psychological disturbance, including exposure to violence, forced displacement, and multiple losses. 2 The rates of mental health problems in refugee children are uncertain, but the few studies that have ...

BACKGROUND Recently Bolivia has implemented a universal health system, but their mental health policy is still emerging. OBJECTIVES To investigate the current state of the mental health care system in Bolivia and discuss challenges for structuring a coordinated network of services that can effectively meet the needs of the Bolivian population. METHODS This review was conducted by searching ...

OBJECTIVE To characterize youth seeking care for assault injuries, the context of violence, and previous emergency department (ED) service utilization to inform ED-based injury prevention. METHODS A consecutive sample of youth (14-24) presenting to an urban ED with an assault injury completed a survey of partner violence, gun/knife victimization, gang membership, and context of the fight. R...

Intenionai injuries are an emerging silent epiaemic in developing countries ana contribute significantly to global injury burden. A descriptive prospective study was conducted to establish the prevalence, contributing factors, injury pattern and treatment outcome of intentional injuries at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania. Data was collected using a pre-tested, coded questionnair...

uvenile violence is a substantial public health problem in the United States. In a representative national survey in 2002, U.S. adults reported more than 1.87 million incidents of victimization by perpetrators estiated to be between the ages of 12 and 20 years—a rate f approximately 5.1 incidents of victimization per 100 uveniles in this age group.1,2 Based on the same survey, uvenile perpetrat...

the present study considers the issue of verbal violence in the language of drama. in the evaluation of verbal violence, jeanette malkin (2004) proposes six maxims, through which language may be considered as an arrogant element. the characters in dramatic texts (as in other literary texts) are created, developed, evolved and - in some cases - destroyed by language. in a considerable number of ...