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Monday 10 June 2013

Healthevidence.org - monthly update and can we scare youth from becoming criminals?

Healthevidence.ca, recently underway a revision and change of location to www.healthevidence.org, be sure to update your favourites. Monthly, a communication highlights the best of the synthesis reviews that have been added to their collection. For those not on the list, a smattering of the strong reviews for June are listed below with links that should work.  The downside of some of this, is that Health Evidence is going the way of Cochrane and publishing many reviews that disregard the value of the range of epidemiological studies.

The highlight of particular interest is on the effectiveness of programs to prevent juvenile delinquency, often through visits to local establishments of incarceration.  The main conclusion was that these programs were more harmful than helpful.  The studies however were all undertaken between 1967 and 1992 – begging the question why would such programs exist currently at all? Is this just a way of making the privileged classes feel good that they are doing something? It is a clear example of where programming based on fear, and programming entrenched in middle class beliefs and not program recipients views - are unlikely to work and can be harmful.    Juvenile delinquency prevention

Noting also that there is a reasonably good review as well on regulation change as an intervention to prevent aggression and injury in hockey.  

Review-level evidence on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions:

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