There is an immediate need to advance knowledge around the effective prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV), which is responsible for significant negative health and well-being outcomes for ...

For certain countries the availability of the technology and know-how has turned the nuclear weapons option, as well as the possession of chemical and bacteriological weapons, into a threatened ...

Attempts to reduce suicide in a population do not always focus enough on high-risk patients, argues an expert who discusses different interventions for "secondary suicide prevention." Attempts to ...

In medicine, there are four levels of care: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. The levels of care refer to the complexity of the medical cases that healthcare providers treat and the skills ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...