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SDGs managers' assessment bias and their implications for preventing violence against women in companies - Vara-Horna AA, Giraldo-Mejia W, Guzman-Melgar C, Quintana-Otiniano M, Navarro-Viacava M, Delgado-Zegarra J.
This study explores the role of managers' perceptions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in preventing violence against women in companies. Surveying 673 managers in Lima, Peru, it found gender-based discrepancies in SDG priorities, with men leaning t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Stalking, harassment, gendered abuse, and violence towards politicians in the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery era - Every-Palmer S, Hansby O, Barry-Walsh J.
BACKGROUND: High levels of harassment and threats against parliamentarians are being reported internationally, especially in the social media space. This is occurring alongside changes in our social landscape, with increasing political polarisation and the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Systematic disparities in reporting on community firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA - Beard JH, Raissian R, Roberts L, Partain L, Midberry J, Walker T, Trombley S, MacMillan J, Morrison CN.
OBJECTIVE: To better understand how community firearm violence (CFV) is communicated to the public, we aimed to identify systematic differences between the characteristics of shooting victims and events covered on television news and all shootings in Phila... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Affective prediction errors in persistence and escalation of aggression - Vollberg MC, Cikara M.
People generally empathize with others and find harm aversive. Yet aggression, for example, between groups, abounds. How do people learn to overcome this aversion in order to aggress? Many models of learning emphasize outcome prediction errors-deviations f... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Association between pornography use, sexism, and sexual violence myth acceptance in Chinese men: the moderating effect of perceived realism - Zhang X, Fu T, Yang J, Li R, Liu X, Zheng L.
Pornography is spreading more and more widely due to websites, applications, and social media. It has attracted the attention of a large number of researchers who are sometimes divided on the impact of pornography. However, the relationship between pornogr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Factors contributing to increased workplace violence against nurses during COVID-19 in the healthcare settings of a lower middle-income country- a qualitative study - Somani R, Muntaner C, Velonis AJ, Smith P, Hillan EM.
PURPOSE: To provide the perceptions of nurses, nursing supervisors, and nursing administrators about factors contributing to increased workplace violence against nurses within the healthcare settings in Pakistan during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Acute liver injury from mushroom ingestion: a timely intervention in mushroom poisoning - Ur Rahman H, Yasir Shah S, Ali MA, Riazullah, Khan AB.
Mushroom poisoning, known as mycetism, represents a pressing health concern worldwide. Although the majority of mushroom ingestions are benign, select species like "Amanita phalloides" can induce catastrophic liver damage, culminating in acute liver failur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Proposal to apply a "Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA)" based approach to manage the COVID-19-related mental health problems in the era of long COVID - Sun K, Zhou R, Xu F, Lu H, Asakawa T.
Long COVID (LC)-related health problems are highly concerned. Many patients seem to have "recovered" from an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, however, they might experience various symptoms, almost involving all organs and systems. Of those, neuropsychiatric sy... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Teucrium polium: new toxic effects added to the literature: a case report - Ghassa A, Ismail M, Alani LAA.
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Teucrium polium is one of the aromatic plants that grows in the Mediterranean region, and had been used as an herbal treatment for diabetes due to its hypoglycaemia effect. Although this plant is being studied now for its thera... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Ventricular tachycardia storm after accidental poisoning of delphinium species: a rare case report - Shrestha S, Thapa S, Hussain A, Lamichhane S, Subedi S, Kc S, Kandel N, Pant K.
INTRODUCTION: Delphinium species are commonly used as medicinal herbs, with a wide range of implications for medical conditions. The injudicious use of this plant has been known to cause devastating side effects, including cardiac arrhythmias. CASE PRE... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Access to psychiatric and education services during incarceration in the United States - Henry BF, Gray J.
OBJECTIVE: Individuals with psychiatric disorders are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates and often have low educational attainment. Access to psychiatric and education services within prisons has been described as inadequate, but recent data are... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Acting out when psychosocial safety climate is low: understanding why middle-level managers experience upward mistreatment - Loh MY, Dollard MF.
INTRODUCTION: Upward mistreatment, despite being under studied, is an influential phenomenon affecting middle managers' well-being and performance. The work environment hypothesis of bullying proposes that an undesirable work context is the main cause of w... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Risk factors for running-related injuries: an umbrella systematic review - Correia CK, Machado JM, Dominski FH, de Castro MP, Fontana HB, Ruschel C.
PURPOSE: This umbrella systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis seeks to comprehensively synthesize existing literature to identify and consolidate the diverse range of risk factors contributing to running-related injuries (RRIs). ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Studying dominance and aggression requires ethologically relevant paradigms - Shemesh Y, Benjamin A, Shoshani-Haye K, Yizhar O, Chen A.
Although aggression is associated with several psychiatric disorders, there is no effective treatment nor a rigorous definition for "pathological aggression". Mice make a valuable model for studying aggression. They have a dynamic social structure that dep... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

To investigate the pattern of neck injuries and the role of toxicology in cases of hanging and manual/homicidal ligature strangulation in Ireland between 2016 - 2020: a retrospective review and analysis - Commins C, Bolster M, Mulligan L.
In this study, the PMEs performed for 298 c... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news