The National Immunization Survey (NIS) is a random-digit-dialed telephone survey used to monitor vaccination coverage among U.S. children aged 19-35 months. This report describes national, state, and selected local area vaccination coverage estimates for children born during January 2009-May 2011, based on results from the 2012 NIS. Healthy People 2020* objectives set childhood vaccination targ...

CONTEXT For more than 20 years, primary prevention of coronary heart disease has included strategies intended to improve overall serum lipid concentrations among youths. OBJECTIVE To examine trends in lipid concentrations among youths from 1988-1994 through 2007-2010. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional analysis of serum lipid concentrations among 16,116 youths aged 6 to 19 ye...

abstract background: administration of quality care in the aged people requires having a positive attitude toward them. numerous factors including nurses’ personality characteristics may play a role in their attitude toward the aged people. therefore, the present study investigated the association between nurses’ personality characteristics and their attitude toward the aged people. materials a...

The aim of the study was to identify differences in morphological variables and variables for quality assessment of volleyball techniques in young female volleyball players according to age and situation efficacy, and to estimate the effect of technique quality on situation efficacy. A set of 13 morphological measures and 6 technique elements were used in a sample of 246 female volleyball playe...

Increased levels of physical exercise have been related to improvements in cognitive functioning and mood in patients with depression. The evidence for sedentary lifestyle and low levels of physical activity in early adulthood being associated with subsequent depressive symptoms is more mixed. Åberg and colleagues (pp. 352–359) examined depressive illness in a large cohort of prospectively asse...

BACKGROUND Victims of motor vehicle accidents may suffer multiple lesions, including maxillofacial injuries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with head, facial, and maxillofacial injuries in child and adolescent victims of automobile accidents. A cross-sectional study was carried out with analysis of forensic medical reports from the Legal Medical Inst...

The aim of this review is to evaluate the COVID-19 vaccination program in Duhok, determining negative and positive points, subsequently improving it. In Duhok,, across the 59 mass vaccination centers, vaccination coverage rates were investigated for all population aged  ≥ 18 years and population aged ≥ 12 years receiving the three available vaccines, namely: Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer b...

PROBLEM/CONDITION In the United States, unintentional injury, homicide, and suicide are the first, second, and fourth leading causes of death among persons aged 1-19 years, respectively; the highest rates have occurred among minority populations. The effects of age on the difference in rates between white and minority children and the mechanisms of injury that contribute most to that difference...

There is accumulating evidence suggesting that children may drive the spread of influenza epidemics. The objective of this study was to quantify the lead time by age using laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza A for the 1995/1996-2005/2006 seasons from Canadian communities and laboratory-confirmed hospital admissions for the H1N1/2009 pandemic strain. With alignment of the epidemic curves loc...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with short sleep duration in adolescents from Maravilha - Santa Catarina (SC), southern Brazil. METHODS The sample consisted of 516 adolescents aged 10-19 years of both genders. Issues associated with short sleep duration and difficulty falling asleep, chronotype, daytime sleepi-ness, physical activity, sedentary ...