CONTEXT An overarching national health goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate disparities in leading health care indicators including immunizations. Disparities in US childhood immunization rates persist, with inner-city, black, and Hispanic children having lower rates. Although practice or clinic-based interventions, such as patient reminder/recall systems, have been found to improve immu...

At dawn on Saturday 25 April 2020, hundreds of Australians gathered in their driveways to observe a minute silence commemorate Anzac Day. In suburbs across the country they found inventive wa...

Persistent trends in overweight and obesity have resulted in a rapid research effort focused on built environment, physical activity, and overweight. Much of the focus of this research has been on the design and form of suburbs. It suggests that several features of the suburban built environment such as low densities, poor street connectivity and the lack of sidewalks are associated with decrea...

TO JUDGE FROM THE CONTENT OF RECENT LITERATURE on the government of early modern London, an exercise in word association among historians would probably produce the result ‘Government of London: Stability’. The key components of the explanation for the fundamental orderliness of the capital are (with varying degrees of emphasis among the contributors to the debate): the concentration of central...

Shanken / The Sublime “Jackass” is now an immense aggregation of commercial areas and office buildings. But it remains unincorporated, its political structure mirroring its indeterminate morphology. Many suburban and exurban areas, edge cities, and areas of sprawl share this ambiguity of governance and physical boundary. That they also share an abundance of neglected and remaindered spaces make...

AIMS This study examined the association between the blood-sharing practice of 'flashblood' use and demographic factors, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status and variables associated with risky sex and drug behaviors among female injecting drug users. Flashblood is a syringe-full of blood passed from someone who has just injected heroin to someone else who injects it in lieu of heroin. D...

This study examined publicly available data from The Institution of Education Sciences (IES) survey school leaders concerning modes instructions offered and subgroups prioritized during the Covid-19 pandemic. We asked: Do national regarding instructional (i.e., remote, hybrid, in-person) pandemic reveal different approaches U.S. elementary secondary schools in rural areas versus peer institutio...