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Over 80% of people with social anxiety disorder (SAD) do not receive any type of treatment, despite the existence of effective evidence-based treatments. Barriers to treatment include lack of trained therapists (particularly in nonmetropolitan areas), logistical difficulties (e.g., cost, time, transportation), concerns regarding social stigma, and fear of negative evaluation from health care pr...

UNLABELLED There are concerns that the consumption of unfluoridated bottled and tank water may put children at increased risk of developing caries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between nonpublic water consumption (either from bottles or rainwater tanks) and socioeconomic status (SES) and both deciduous and permanent caries experience. METHODS A random...

OBJECTIVE This observational study examined the proportion of family physicians continuing to perform deliveries from 2003-2010. METHODS Data were collected annually from the same census questionnaire completed by family physicians who passed their recertification examination. Aggregated responses began in 2003 when data first became available electronically and ended in 2009 before recertifi...

INTRODUCTION Only 1%-7% of smokers use quitlines annually. Active telephone recruitment ("cold calling") can enroll about 50% of community smokers to quitline services. However, whether cold-called smokers' characteristics differ from traditional quitline clients is unknown. To assess whether active telephone recruitment reaches new groups of smokers, New South Wales (NSW) Quitline callers were...

Do poor elders really leave poverty? We explore the prevalence and nature of exits from poverty among poor elders, with special attention to rural-urban differences in this regard. Analyzing twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that 40% of poor elders leave poverty after one year. However, descriptive data suggest many of these exits resulted from small increase...