Background: Phone interview is a safe way for collecting sensitive data due to no need direct contact with the interviewees and their privacy. Objectives: The purpose of this study was investigate feasibility validity phone interviewing using mobile phones collect information related participants’ sexual behavior. Methods: This cross-sectional conducted on sexually active population Marvdasht, ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test whether the association between primary care and income inequality on all-cause, heart disease and cancer mortality at county level differs in urban (Metropolitan Statistical Area-MSA) compared with non-urban (non-MSA) areas. STUDY DESIGN The study consisted of a cross-sectional analysis of county-level data stratified by MSA and non-MSA areas...

INTRODUCTION Although county-level obesity estimates are necessary for planning and evaluating community-based interventions, the quality of these data has never been examined. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the reliability of the county-level obesity prevalence estimates from Wisconsin's 72 counties and to highlight the variation of obesity among Wisconsin counties. METHODS Obesity prevalence data...

The State of Tennessee consists of 95 counties endowed with abundant forest resources that encompass more than 13.3 million acres. The forest products industries in Tennessee consist of two major industries: the primary and secondary wood processing industries. This study examined if there are differences among counties in the primary wood processing industries as related to employment, payroll...

Certificate of Need (CON) laws, state laws requiring providers to obtain licenses before adopting health-care technology, have been controversial. The effect of CON on technology supply has not been well established. In part this is because analyses have focused on state-level supply effects, which may reflect either the consequence of CON regulation on supply or the cause for its adoption or r...

in this study, two reared chalcid wasps are newly recorded from fars province, iran, as the natural enemies of fig soft scale, eulecanium sp. (hemiptera: coccidae): (1) scutellista caerulea (fonscolombe) (pteromalidae: eunotinae) and (2) blastothrix hungarica erdã¶s (encyrtidae: encyrtinae). both species were collected from estahaban (may 2005) and darab (september 2005; june 2006).

BACKGROUND Appalachia is a region of the United States noted for the poverty and poor health outcomes of its residents. Residents of the poorest Appalachian counties have a high prevalence of diabetes and risk factors (obesity, low income, low education, etc.) for type 2 diabetes. However, diabetes prevalence exceeds what these risk factors alone explain. Based on this, the history of poor heal...