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Blood lead levels increase, but remain in normal range with severe weight reduction.
No full textHigh bone turnover states are known to raise blood lead levels (BPb). Caloric restriction will increase bone turnover, yet it remains unknown if weight reduction increases BPb due to mobilization of skeletal stores. We measured whole blood Pb levels (²⁰⁶Pb) by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in 73 women (age 24–75 years; BMI 23– 61 kg/m²) before and after 6 months of severe weight loss (S-WL), moderate weight loss (M-WL), or weight maintenance (WM). Baseline BPb levels were relatively low at 0.2–6.0 μg/dl, and directly associated with age (r=0.49, P<0.0001). After severe WL (-37.4±9.3 kg, n=17), BPb increased by 2.1±3.9 μg/dl (P<0.05), resulting in BPb levels of 1.3–12.5 μg/dl. M-WL (-5.6±2.7 kg, n=39) and WM (0.3±1.3 kg, n=17) did not result in an increase in BPb levels (0.5±3.2 and 0.0±0.7 μg/dl, M-WL and WM, respectively). BPb levels increased more with greater WL (r=0.24, P<0.05). Bone turnover markers increased only with severe WL and were directly correlated with WL. At baseline, higher calcium intake was associated with lower BPb (r=-0.273, P<0.02), however, this association was no longer present after 6 months. Severe weight reduction in obese women increases skeletal bone mobilization and BPb, but values remain well below levels defined as Pb overexposure.This research was supported by the NIEHS sponsored UMDNJ Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease, Grant number: NIEHS P30ES005022, in part by NIH-AG12161, and a Busch Biomedical Award to SA Shapses.National Institutes of Health: AG12161, to S.A. ShapsesCharles & Johanna Busch Biomedical Grant, to S.A. ShapsesThe published version of this paper is available at: http://www.nature.com/je
Sue Eastland pictured with unidentified female student
No full text(Sue\u27s Pictures)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joephoto_f/1091/thumbnail.jp
Portrait of Sue Eastland outside on steps
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Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey
No full textThe participation of interest groups in public policy making is unavoidable. Its unavoidable nature is only matched by the universal suspicion with which it has been seen by both policy makers and the public. Recently, however, there has been a growing literature that examines the participation of interest groups in public policy making from a New Institutional Economics perspective. The distinguishing feature of the New Institutional Economics Approach is its emphasis in opening up the black box of decision-making, whether in understanding the rules of the game, or the play of the game. In this paper we do not attempt to fairly describe the vast literature on interest group's behavior. Instead, the purpose of this essay for the New Institutional Economics Guide Book is to review recent papers that follow the NIE mantra. That is, they attempt to explicate the micro-analytic features of the way interest groups actually interact with policy-makers, rather than providing an abstract high-level representation. We emphasize the role of the institutional environment in understanding interest groups' strategies.
Exploring the potential for joint training between legal professionals in the Criminal Justice System and health and social care professionals in the Mental-Health Services
No full textEffective screening of mentally-ill defendants in the criminal court system requires cooperation
between legal professionals in the criminal justice system (CJS), and health and social care workers in
the mental-health service (MHS). This interagency working, though, can be problematic, as
recognised in the Bradley Inquiry that recommended joint training for MHS and CJS professionals.
The aim of this study was to examine the experiences and attitudes of workers in the CJS and MHS to
inform the development of relevant training. The method was a survey of mental health workers and
legal professionals in the court. The results showed that showed both agencies were uncertain of their
ability to work with the other and there is little training that supports them in this. Both recognized the
importance of mentally-ill defendants being dealt with appropriately in court proceedings but
acknowledged this is not achieved. There is a shared willingness to sympathise with defendants and a
common lack of willingness to give a definite, unqualified response on the relationship between
culpability, mental-illness and punishment. Views differ around defendants' threat to security.
Findings suggest there is scope to develop interprofessional training programmes between the CJS
and MHS to improve interagency working and eventually impact on the quality of defendants’ lives.
Recommendations are made on the type of joint training that could be provided
Comics and human rights: an interview with Kelly Sue Deconnick
No full textMaria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on nationalism, security and human rights. You can find her on Twitter as @MariaWNorris Kelly Sue Deconnick is an American writer of comics. She is the author of Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly for Image Comics and Captain Marvel for Marvel. She was nominated for a 2014 Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Pretty Deadly
A women’s worker in court: A more appropriate service for women defendants with mental health issues?
No full textAims
Court liaison services aim to reduce mental illness in prison through early treatment and/or diversion into care of defendants negotiating their court proceedings. However, liaison services may inadvertently contribute to gender inequalities in mental health in the prison system. This is because women often do not access liaison services. This is attributed to services failing to recognise that women have different needs from men. To address this, it is essential that the needs of women in contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) are clearly articulated. However, there is a dearth of research that considers women’s needs at this stage of their journey through the CJS. This paper aims to identify these needs before women enter prison. It does so through an analysis of a pilot Women’s Support Service based at a Magistrates’ Court, a response to concerns that women were not accessing the local liaison service. Characteristics of women defendants attending the service are described, specifically their home environments, general and mental health needs. Their support needs when in contact with the CJS and the links the service must forge with local community organisations to provide this, are also presented. This knowledge will develop/ tailor existing services available to women defendants to improve their access to these and optimise the benefits they can derive from them.
Methods
Proformas were completed by a women specialist worker for 86 women defendants assessed in 4 months. Information was collected on characteristics including education, domestic violence, accommodation, physical and mental health.. This specialist worker recorded the range of needs identified by defendants at assessment and the services to which women were referred.
Results
Access to the Women’s Support Service is high, with only 11.3% of women refusing to use the service. Women attending have high levels of physical and mental health issues. Their mental health issues have not being addressed prior to accessing the service. Women often come from single households and environments high in domestic abuse. Women have multiple needs related to benefits, finance, housing, domestic abuse, education and career guidance. These are more frequent than those that explicitly link to mental health. The women’s worker providing the service referred women to 68 services from a wide variety of statutory and voluntary organisations.
Conclusions
The Women’s Support Service is accessed by a higher number of women, many more than access the local liaison service. It is suggested that this is due to their multiple and gender specific needs being adequately addressed by the former service and the organisations to whom they are referred. Mental health needs may also be secondary to other more basic needs, that makes the generic service provided but the Women’s support Service more appropriate than a liaison service that deals with mental health support alone
Chris and Sue CD
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[Review of the book A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett-Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice, by Sue Taffe]
No full textReview(s) of: A white hot flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett - Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice, by Sue Taffe, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne 2018, Pp. 46
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