We describe building an avatar-based self-report data collection tool to be used for a specific HIV prevention research project that is evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of this novel approach to collect self-reported data among youth. We discuss the gathering of requirements, the process of building a prototype of the envisioned system, and the lessons learned during the development...

Young people today are bombarded with information suggesting consequences do not apply to them. Increasing alarm over the exposure to violence of America's youth has sparked intensified examination of the need for targeted and enhanced primary prevention efforts.

The medicolegal aspects (primary prevention, secondary prevention or surveillance) and the system of compensation (tertiary prevention) for occupational asthma are reviewed in this article. Due to the significant medical, medicolegal, social and financial consequences, it is of the utmost importance that the diagnosis of occupational asthma be proved by objective means, whenever feasible. Compe...

objective: the aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ‎ancient greek and persian soldiers and commanders.‎ method: ‎‘herodotus: the histories’ is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the ‎greco-persian wars (492-449 bce). a new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. ‎accounts of suicide were collected and collat...

introduction: behavioral science experts believe that all entities capable of stimulating a person can be addictive; and whenever a habit changes into an obligation, it can be considered as an addiction. researchers also believe that there are a number of similarities as well as some differences between drug addiction and behavioral addiction diagnostic symptoms. the purpose of this study is to...

background: neonatal jaundice is a common problem that can result in serious neurological side effect such as kern icterus. several drugs are used to prevent neonatal jaundice. the effect of clofibrate in the prevention of hyperbilirubi-nemia in healthy term neonates has not been paid attention to. this study aimed to evaluate the preventive effect of clofibrate on neonatal jaundice in term neo...

The successful demonstration that antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can be used in diverse ways to reduce HIV acquisition or transmission risks--either taken as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by those who are uninfected or as early treatment for prevention (T4P) by those living with HIV--expands the armamentarium of existing HIV prevention tools. These findings have implications for the design of fut...

This interview study, the initial qualitative phase of a larger mixed methods HIV prevention study focused on Black heterosexual men, used intersectionality as a theoretical framework to explore: (1) How a sample of Black heterosexual men describe and experience the multiple intersections of race, gender, and SES; and (2) How these descriptions reflected interlocking systems of social inequalit...

BACKGROUND To respond to the rapid surge in the incidence of suicide in Japan, which appears to be an ongoing trend, the Japanese Multimodal Intervention Trials for Suicide Prevention (J-MISP) have launched a multimodal community-based suicide prevention program, NOCOMIT-J. The primary aim of this study is to examine whether NOCOMIT-J is effective in reducing suicidal behavior in the community....

background: brucellosis as a zoonosis is still a public health problem in many countries such as iran. to perform preventive, control, and eradication policies about the disease, we need the exact epidemiologic information and patterns of brucellosis in the country. in this study, we investigated the epidemiological, clinical, and treatment aspects of diseases in patients who had a record in sh...