Background: Smoking contributes to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, but the extent to which this contribution has changed over time and driven widening or narrowing inequalities in total mortality remains unknown. We...
Number processing is a cognitive domain particularly sensitive to prenatal alcohol exposure, which relies on intact parietal functioning. Alcohol-related alterations in brain activation have been found in the parietal lobe during symbolic...
Disproportionate volume reductions in the basal ganglia, corpus callosum (CC) and hippocampus have been reported in children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). However, few studies have investigated these reductions in high prevalence...
The questions whether and how empathy for pain can be modulated by acute alcohol intoxication in the non-dependent population remain unanswered. To address these questions, a double-blind, placebo-controlled, within-subject study design was...
Amanda Kerry, Claire V Crooks
Introduction: Over one-third of Canadian youth have engaged in some form of delinquent behavior by the age of 14 (Savoie, 2006). In the United States, approximately 31 million youth are under juvenile court...
Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan
Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative...
Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings
KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain...
Anthony Shakeshaft
Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is...
Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller
Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...
Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott
Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...
Mieke Snijder
Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...
Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Cui Yang, Nickolas Zaller, Hongo Zhang
Introduction: In China, the proportion of HIV cases attributed to men who have sex with men (MSM) behavior has rapidly increased in recent years, with over one-quarter of...
Steven M. Kogan, Sophie Walsh, Megan Hicks
The Ethiopian families who are the focus of the present study emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1980s-1990s. Escaping civil war, famine, and religious persecution, these families have...
Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Jonathan Scourfield, David Foxcroft, Simon Murphy
Introduction: Trials of family-based prevention interventions often face challenges in recruitment and retention, leading to methodological issues. However...
Joan E. Durrant, Dominique Pierre Plateau
In 2015, the United Nations set out a new sustainable development agenda based on human rights standards. One of its 17 goals is to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. An...
John Kjøbli
To scale up evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of child conduct problems in primary care settings, the program Early Initiatives for Children at Risk (Norwegian acronym; TIBIR) was developed. The...
Jenny Doubt
Background: There is an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing and reducing violence in our societies. Children in developing countries experience higher levels of abuse, and less than 12% of abused children...
Jamie Lachman, Jenny Doubt, Heidi Loening-Voysey
Objectives: Parenting programmes have shown promise in preventing violence against children, as well as improving child and parental outcomes. Accordingly, there is an increased demand for...
Craig Nagoshi, Julie L. Nagoshi, Eusebius Small, Flavio F. Marsiglia
Introduction: The overall goal of the proposed research project was to implement an adaptation of the established Families Preparing a New Generation (FPNG) substance...
Wadih E. Maalouf, Milos Stojanovic, Matthew Kiefer, Giovanna Campello, Hanna E. Heikkila, Ziad El Khatib
UNODC has an ongoing global initiative promoting evidence based prevention programmes in line with the UNODC International Standards...
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