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Physiology & Medicine / Antisocial hours and illness
« on: 18/04/2003 19:29:18 »
IMPACT OF ANTISOCIAL LIFESTYLE "HAS
BEEN NEGLECTED"
Evidence suggests that an antisocial lifestyle is linked to
illness, injury, and premature death, yet while links
between deprivation and health have been widely
studied, links between antisocial lifestyle and health have
been neglected, according to two experts in this week's
BMJ.
The impact of an antisocial lifestyle on health is
increasingly well understood, write Professors Jonathan
Shepherd and David Farrington. For example, early
contact with the police, truancy, school misconduct, and
divorce are significant predictors of premature death.
Studies have also found links between an antisocial
lifestyle and injury, especially injury sustained in assaults
at age 16-18 and on the roads or at work at age 27 to
32.
Family, school, and police interventions can reduce these
health risks, say the authors. For example, pre-school
education and management training for parents have
helped to reduce a range of antisocial behaviours
including offending and alcohol or other drug misuse.
Effective police interventions include patrols targeted at
known hotspots of violence and arrest of serious repeat
offenders, drunk drivers, and employed suspects of
domestic violence.
Nowhere are the impacts of antisocial lifestyle on health
more apparent than in prisons, add the authors. The
recent transfer of responsibility for prison health services
in England and Wales from the Home Office to the
Department of Health is logical, and a prompt both to
acknowledge relationships between crime, injury, and
illness and to develop integrated prevention and
treatment, they conclude.
(Editorial: The impact of antisocial lifestyle on health)
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/834
BEEN NEGLECTED"
Evidence suggests that an antisocial lifestyle is linked to
illness, injury, and premature death, yet while links
between deprivation and health have been widely
studied, links between antisocial lifestyle and health have
been neglected, according to two experts in this week's
BMJ.
The impact of an antisocial lifestyle on health is
increasingly well understood, write Professors Jonathan
Shepherd and David Farrington. For example, early
contact with the police, truancy, school misconduct, and
divorce are significant predictors of premature death.
Studies have also found links between an antisocial
lifestyle and injury, especially injury sustained in assaults
at age 16-18 and on the roads or at work at age 27 to
32.
Family, school, and police interventions can reduce these
health risks, say the authors. For example, pre-school
education and management training for parents have
helped to reduce a range of antisocial behaviours
including offending and alcohol or other drug misuse.
Effective police interventions include patrols targeted at
known hotspots of violence and arrest of serious repeat
offenders, drunk drivers, and employed suspects of
domestic violence.
Nowhere are the impacts of antisocial lifestyle on health
more apparent than in prisons, add the authors. The
recent transfer of responsibility for prison health services
in England and Wales from the Home Office to the
Department of Health is logical, and a prompt both to
acknowledge relationships between crime, injury, and
illness and to develop integrated prevention and
treatment, they conclude.
(Editorial: The impact of antisocial lifestyle on health)
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/834