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BACKGROUND Outpatients attending consultations at public hospitals may have unmet needs for preventive medical care. This study aimed to identify and assess the association between these needs, social vulnerability and mode of healthcare use. METHODS In a multicentre epidemiological study, a group of socially vulnerable outpatients, was compared with a non-vulnerable group in a sample of 1316...

Parental abduction encompasses a broad array of illegal behaviors that involves one parent taking, detaining, concealing, or enticing away his or her child from the parent having custodial access. When the abducted parent intends to permanently alter custodial access by hiding the child or removing the child to another locale, the effects on the family and the obstacles to the child's recovery ...

Parental abduction encompasses a broad array of illegal behaviors that involve one parent taking, detaining, concealing, or enticing away his or her child from the parent having custodial access. When the abducting parent intends to permanently alter custodial access by hiding the child or removing the child to another State or country, the effects on the family and the obstacles to the child’s...

Because underage drinking is a serious public health concern and associated with numerous detrimental consequences, many interventions to prevent underage drinking have been developed. However, the effectiveness of all these interventions has not been proven. A recent review of the relevant literature that used stringent criteria for the types of studies and interventions included, as well as f...

It is well recognised that boys and girls differ with respect to morbidity, for instance boys more often suffer from respiratory infections and asthma, whereas girls are more susceptible to celiac disease and insulin resistance/type II diabetes. Nonetheless, there are very few studies which have addressed the potential differences in boys’ and girls’ immune systems. From our perspective of long...

ed separately. Thus, if an article reported a three arm trial, in which distinct interventions were delivered to participants in two of the arms and the third arm constituted a control group, then we considered such a study to contain two trials (the separate comparisons of the two intervention arms against the control group). Targeted Preventive Interventions We defined a “preventive intervent...