A national oceanographic program

National Asthma Education Program.

FIGURE 2. Mortality. In 1988, 4,580 people died from asthma in the United States. Asthma mortality has increased slightly over the past decade. The greatest increase in the asthma death rate has occurred in those older than 65 years of age. In 1979, blacks of both sexes were about twice as likely to die from asthma as whites. Over the past decade this ratio has increased, and by 1987 the asthma...

Australia's national serosurveillance program.

Serosurveillance is an important component of any comprehensive surveillance system for vaccine preventable diseases. Disease notification data are necessary to detect outbreaks and can provide timely epidemiological profiles of a disease. However, the incidence of a disease is often under-estimated by notifications, especially when a proportion of cases are asymptomatic. If this proportion cha...

Cuba's National Immunization Program.

The National Immunization Program (NIP) begun in 1962 has considerably reduced the infectious disease burden in Cuba over the years, especially among children. The Ministry of Public Health estimates that some 560,000 children would have contracted these diseases, some with fatal outcomes, had it not been for the aggressive vaccination strategy begun 45 years ago and developed since then.

National Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Program A National Cancer Institute-Supported Ovarian Cancer Program

A National Oceanographic Partnership Program Award A Partnership for Modeling the Marine Environment of Puget Sound, Washington – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Report

Long-Term Goals Estuaries, fjords and sounds are important, major components of marine ecosystems worldwide. Because of this, and their generally poor treatment by man, large estuaries should be the focus of large-scale, multidisciplinary, integrative modeling efforts. We need to both understand how these systems work, and be able to predict how they will respond to changes, whether natural or ...