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Addressing childhood abuse could prevent firearm violence later in life

Association of Health Care Journalists

Involvement within the child welfare system may also be a risk factor for gun violence, according to the report. They can cover the population-level risks and patterns of child abuse and explore how a person who was abused later faced problems with violence.

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Study is first to show that air pollutants increase risk of painful periods for women

Frontiers

Now, for the first time, researchers from China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan have shown that long-term exposure to air pollutants such as nitrogen and carbon oxides and fine particulate matter greatly raises the risk of developing dysmenorrhea. Women who have never been pregnant are likewise known to be at greater risk.

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Predictive Analytics Drives Criminal Justice Reform with Recidivism Forecasting

Smart Data Collective

In addition to the Challenge data provided, NIJ encourages contestants to consider a wide range of potential supplemental data sources that are available to community corrections agencies to enhance risk determinations, including the incorporation of dynamic place-based factors along with the common static and dynamic risk factors.

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What is Staphylococcus aureus?

Gideon

Individuals at increased risk include patients with diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS , and other conditions that compromise the immune system. Hospitalization is in itself a risk factor for S. 2013 Nov 21;503(7476):397-401. Intravenous drug users may introduce the bacteria into various tissues and/or the bloodstream.

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Public health has a language problem

Public Healthy

I thought it might have just been the culture of that council, or that perhaps public health became infected with management speak after the 2013 transition to local authorities. Normal people having normal conversations don’t say ‘risk factor’ or ‘morbidity’, do they? But it predates that. Yeah, you do.

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What Are Hospital Acquired Infections?

Gideon

Risk Factors Immunocompromised individuals, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, are at an increased risk for hospital-acquired infection. Geriatric patients are also at increased risk, as are those with multiple medical comorbidities. 5) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2013. 1323-1327. (5)

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Lifestyle Choices Are Sabotaging Male Fertility

Mercola

million/mL), normal morphology and motility (1.9%) in all 57 studies (29,914 participants) that examined the impact of lifestyle factors on male infertility. In a 2013 children's health expert panel on cellphone and Wi-Fi exposures. It was found that smoking was associated with decreased semen volume (-0.25 mL), total sperm count (-32.2