^k s regards cattle, preven^%tive medicine programs will present general guidelines for specific herd health are called "herd health proprograms but should not be grams." Preventive medicine interpreted as the "only way" can include vaccinations, conto implement preventive trol of parasites, reproductive measures. programs, nutritional programs, and mastitis control. Vaccines General guidelines...

Objectives. The goal of this study was to develop a simulation model to examine the effects of tobacco control mass media interventions on smoking rates and smoking-attributable deaths. Methods. The model projects the number of smokers and smoking-related deaths. Based on empirical and theoretical research, the effects of media interventions, varying in magnitude and duration, directed at all s...

THE SPECIFICITY OF SEROLOGICAL REACTIONS, 2nd ed. Karl Landsteiner. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. xvii, 330 pp. $2.00. This book is a paperback publication of the second, revised edition of a classic in immunology. In the eighteen years since it was first published it has not been superseded by any book. Other books, particularly Kabat and Mayer's Experimental Immunochemistry comple...

Background. This study explores underresearched sociocultural predictors of children’s physical activity Levels of physical activity among children are highly and fitness, with particular attention paid to the influvariable, and few consistent correlates have been idenence of ethnicity independent from potential contified. The lack of identification of predictors of childfounders such as social...

Analysis of disease data that has an implicit spatio-temporal component (such as disease outbreaks, data generated by surveillance systems and specific hypothesis-based veterinary field research) is a foundation of veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. Components of this process include exploratory spatial data analysis (finding interesting patterns), visualisation (showing interesti...

Safety initiatives in hospitals should focus on common health care interventions that when used appropriately can improve important health outcomes, and when used inappropriately or not at all, result in substantial harm. We suggest that errors of omission should be a safety priority. We focus on preventive health care interventions, and describe five steps that can improve patients' safety by ...

Estimates from multilevel regression of 1768 women living in the Paris metropolitan area showed that women who reported concentrating their daily activities in their perceived neighbourhood of residence had a statistically greater likelihood of not having undergone cervical screening during the previous 2 years. Furthermore, the characteristics of the administrative neighbourhood of residence (...

Various different methods are currently being used to capture data from small animal consultations. The aim of this study was to develop a tool to record detailed data from consultations by direct observation. A second aim was to investigate the complexity of the consultation by examining the number of problems discussed per patient. A data collection tool was developed and used during direct o...