BACKGROUND The media attention received by homicides committed by patients with mental illness is thought to increase stigma. However, people with mental illness can also be victims of violence. We aimed to assess how often victims of homicide are current mental health patients and their relationship to the perpetrators. METHODS In a national consecutive case-series study, we obtained data fo...

There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, and of the frequency and types of experiments and research. This paper gives the first results of a comprehensive evidence-based evaluation of the different categories of victims. Human experiments were more extensive than often assumed with a minimum of 15,754 documented victims. Experiments rap...

OBJECTIVE The present study describes factors related to fatal abuse in three age groups in the United States Air Force (USAF). METHOD Records from 32 substantiated cases of fatal child abuse in the USAF were independently reviewed for 60 predefined factors. RESULTS Males were over-represented in young child victims (between 1 year and 4 years of age) and child victims (between 4 years and ...

BACKGROUND False allegations of victimisation although uncommon are important to recognise. This paper examines those who falsely claim to have been the victims of stalking. AIMS To highlight the phenomenon of false victims of stalking. METHOD Twelve individuals who falsely claimed to be victims of stalking were compared with a group of 100 true stalking victims. RESULTS False stalking vi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the severity of trauma in entrapped victims and to identify risk factors for mortality and morbidity. INTRODUCTION Triage and rapid assessment of trauma severity is essential to provide the needed resources during prehospital and hospital phases and for outcome prediction. It is expected that entrapped victims will have greater severity of trauma and mortality than non-en...

BACKGROUND Road traffic fatalities (RTF) are among the top ten causes of deaths in the world. The risk factors for RTF fatal victims have been extensively characterized, but studies of household burden of RTF have been very few in number. Accordingly, this article investigates post-crash impacts on RTF victims' family members, including the adverse impacts of lost income, occupational disruptio...

Following a hazardous chemical accident, early critical care life support is crucial to minimizing potential morbidity and mortality (1). Providing effective care to victims, however, depends on the nature of the incident, the number of victims affected, the availability of medical care, the coordination of rescue efforts, the available modes of evacuation, and the availability of post-evacuati...

Non-partner sexual violence (NPSV), an important risk factor for HIV, is of global public health significance and understudied. The 2010 earthquake interacted syndemically with structural factors to increase sexual violence and HIV risk for women in Cité Soleil, Haiti. We used an exploratory sequential qualitative design and Grounded Theory to investigate language/terminology for NPSV, victims ...

Sensors can provide new and valuable information beyond the human senses: surgeons are provided with vital sign data without attention shift, firefighters may see through smoke, etc. This paper investigates how wearable sensing technology can be applied to alpine avalanche rescue. Sensors worn by mountaineers reveal information about vital functions of the victims in an emergency case. In parti...