Association of adverse childhood experiences and health risk behaviors among young adults visiting a regional primary healthcare center, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Musa S, Peek-Asa C, Jovanovic N, Selimovi ć E.
BACKGROUND: Many studies have linked adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to long-term health outcomes, as well as health risk behaviors. In the post-war period in Bosnia and Herzegovina, many young people grew up in an environment of deteriorated living s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Cochrane is delighted to announce the official launch of Cochrane Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cochrane Bosnia and Herzegovina is delighted to announce that today it has officially become a new Cochrane Geographic Group.Cochrane Bosnia and Herzegovina will be located at the University of Mostar School of Medicine in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in South-Eastern Europe with a population of 3 791 622 people.Cochrane Bosnia and Herzegovina will promote evidence-based decision making in health care in Bosnia and Herzegovina by supporting and training new Bosnian and Herzegovinian authors of Cochrane Reviews, as well as working with clinicians, professional associations, policy-make...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - March 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Masculinity and male survivors of wartime sexual violence: a Bosnian case study - Clark JN.
While conflict-related sexual violence affects men and women, male survivors are often overlooked or marginalised. The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is a poignant example. Twenty-two years after the Bosnian war ended, little attention has been given to ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Bosnia on the border? Republican violence in Northern Ireland during the 1920s and 1970s - Lewis M, McDaid S.
Unionist politicians have argued that Republican political violence on the Irish border, during both the partition of Ireland and more recent Northern Ireland conflict, constituted ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Protestant/Unionist community in ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Social Etiologies and Disparities Source Type: news
Holocaust Memorial Day and the story of disabled people
Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January commemorates all those affected by Hitler’s campaign of genocide against the Jews and other minority groups including Roma Gypsies, eastern Europeans, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, trade unionists, socialists, communists and disabled people.
It is estimated that close to 250,000 disabled people were murdered by the Nazi regime. The Nazis used the discredited theory of eugenics to argue that mentally and physically disabled people were inferior to the Aryan race.
This formed the basis of the ‘T4 programme’, a state sponsored genocide of disabled people with doctors autho...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 25, 2018 Category: Food Science Authors: cullenm Tags: Article disability discrimination disabled members holocaust memorial day Source Type: news
Blast injury prevalence in skeletal remains: are there differences between Bosnian war samples and documented combat-related deaths? - Dussault MC, Hanson I, Smith MJ.
Court cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have seen questions raised about the recognition and causes of blast-related trauma and the relationship to human rights abuses or combat. During trials, defence teams argu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 29, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
UN court convicts Mladic of genocide over Bosnia's horrors
Unrepentant Mladic convicted of genocide and sentenced to life in prison (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: International Source Type: news
Bosnian Serb Commander Ratko Mladic Convicted of Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today convicted former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Physicians for Human Rights, which conducted multiple mass grave investigations across the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s for the Tribunal, hailed today ’s verdict as a victory for international justice and for the victims of Mladic’s crimes. (Source: PHR Press Releases)
Source: PHR Press Releases - November 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A comparative analysis of domestic violence shelter staff perceptions regarding barriers to services in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States - Grubb JA, Muftic LR.
Service provision for domestic violence (DV) survivors has been a long-standing staple of shelters in the United States. Although shelter services provide numerous benefits for survivors, barriers tied to acquisition remain a pressing concern when combatti... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
The legitimacy of international courts: victims' evaluations of the ICTY and local courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Kutnjak Ivkovi ć S, Hagan J.
This paper presents the results of a 2007 survey of victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity from Bosnia and Herzegovina. We study the level of diffuse and specific support for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
65 Skulls Found in Mass Grave at Site of Gruesome War Crime
(SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina ) — Forensic experts say they have retrieved the remains of at least 65 victims from a mass grave in central Bosnia, the site of one of the most gruesome crimes of the country’s 1992-95 war.
Lejla Cengic from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute says Tuesday that remains including 65 skulls have been found since September 7 in the grave at the Koricanske Stijene cliff near Mount Vlasic. She says they’re believed to belong to some of over 220 non-Serb civilians executed there by Bosnian Serb forces on August 21, 1992.
Most of those killed were taken from Serb-run detention...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized APW bosnia bosnia-Herzegovina onetime Source Type: news
Massimo Calabresi and Alex Altman Chosen to Lead TIME Washington Bureau
The following note was sent by TIME Editor Edward Felsenthal to staff Monday.
Team TIME:
In a summer that has seen 9 million people come to TIME in a single day for an eclipse and, in Firsts, some of the most ambitious enterprise we’ve ever done, we have also been continually reminded that our coverage of the nation’s capital is in so many ways the engine of our journalism.
And so I am delighted to announce some important new roles in our Washington Bureau:
Massimo Calabresi, one of the best-sourced and steadiest hands in our business, becomes TIME’s Washington Bureau Chief. Deputy Bureau Chief Alex Altma...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - September 18, 2017 Category: Science Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized Journalism TIME washington Source Type: news
Mental diseases and criminal offences committed by persons placed at the Forensic Department of the Penitentiary in Zenica, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bjelo šević E, Krehmić A, Hadžikapetanović H, Čoralić S, Bjelošević S.
Aim To investigate an impact of various biological, psychological and social factors on perpetration of criminal offences by persons with mental disorders and to examine legal requirements for placement of persons with mental disorders, who committed crimi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
A double Cochrane celebration in Croatia
A double celebration of Cochrane was organized this year in Croatia where, apart from the annualCroatian Cochrane Symposium, held at the University of Split School of Medicine (UoSSoM) from 9th -10th June,a celebration of Cochrane Croatia ’s independent Centre status was held on 8th June to a large crowd of Cochrane supporters, including government officials, health professionals, and students.On behalf of Cochrane Croatia ’s host institution, Prof. Zoran Đogaš, the Dean of the University of Split School of Medicine, gave the opening address at the Centre celebration, expressing his support of Cochrane Croatia’s wo...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - June 21, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nowens at cochrane.org Source Type: news
From the Rescuer to the Aggressor – understanding the 10 types of human
Why do some people chase noble dreams while others torture to stay sane? Barrister Dexter Dias ’s new book draws on ‘moral cognition’ to explain FGM, the crimes of child soldiers – and why we happily pay to punish a cheatWhy do human beings hurt other human beings? That, says the barrister and sometime judge,Dexter Dias QC, is the most fundamental question in his book Ten Types of Human. In it, we meet sex traffickers, the sex-trafficked, a woman whose career was very nearly ended when she blew the whistle in Bosnia, a man whose life very nearly was, when he tried to stage a rescue. We go from thepost-earthquake sh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 19, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Zoe Williams Tags: Evolution Biology UK criminal justice Science Law Source Type: news
