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Joint Academic
Seminar Organized by the
Department of Community Medicine, Medical and Health Research Network
and
Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
Date: Mar 17, 2003 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 to 14:00
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, Room A2-08, 2/F,
Academic and Administration Block, Faculty of Medicine Building,
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Sexual and intimate partner violence
(IPV) are rampant, resulting in over $10 billion in lost productivity,
criminal justice interventions, and physical and mental healthcare
costs annually. Approximately one of every three women experiences
intimate partner violence in her lifetime, although this number
varies tremendously across cultures. Compared to women without abuse
exposure, IPV victims who experienced one, two, or three forms of
abuse were 1.8, 2.3 or 7.8 times more likely to attempt suicide.
Since victims of IPV are at high risk of developing suicidality
and other psychiatric comorbidities, routine screening for IPV facilitates
the identification of those at highest risk for developing self
destructive behavior patterns, some of which are amenable to treatment.
Given the ubiquity of suicidality in the same groups at risk for
IPV, surveillance, screening, and mechanistic study of both in parallel
may help mitigate the destructive overlap of IPV-related suicidality
in women. The mechanisms of suicidality in the presence of IPV across
cultures are hypothesized to include four separate factors: 1. Traumatic
Experience; 2. Hopelessness Depression; 3. Substance Abuse; and
4.Impulsive Aggressiveness. Understanding IPV and the overlapping
risk paradigm has implications for suicide prevention, research,
and treatment in the emergency setting and beyond.
Professor Larkin has recently concluded
his tenure as Visiting Professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy
at the Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine in London,
but he continues his advisory role to the Blair government and the
Chief Medical Officer in the United Kingdom's NHS.
He is a translational researcher
with interests in injury control and prevention with a focus on
interpersonal violence and its impact on mental health, stress,
substance use as well as other health outcomes. He maintains an
interest in trauma from all causes and is interested in cross cultural
and genetic linkages between physical injury and long-term mental
and physical health outcomes.
Professor Larkin is a popular spokesperson
on bioethics, violence, injury control, mental health and other
policy matters. He is the principal author of both the Code of Ethics
for Emergency Physicians for the American College of Emergency Physicians
(ACEP) and the Code of Conduct for Academic Emergency Medicine for
the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in the United States.
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