This article presents a research method for assessing stress and mental health in ongoing population-based social surveys that combines self-reports of naturally occurring daily stressors with a primary marker of stress physiology, salivary cortisol. We first discuss the relevance of stress processes to mental health and introduce a model for examining daily stress processes, which highlights m...

Biobank sample storage is critical in population health and epidemiology studies. Biobanks bridge two very different worlds: they connect to the participants and patients at an individual level, but they also aggregate information and represent the cutting edge of scientific discovery. In this brief report, we describe how the LifeLines study in the Netherlands manages its resources for communi...

the relationship between creativity and mental health and the extend to which different aspects of creativity (elaboration, flexibility, fluency and originality) could predict different aspects of mental health, was studied in college students. 248 subjects were selected as an available pool of subjects and they were given creativity, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and perceived stress tests....

BACKGROUND: Recent empirical research has found behavioral health carve-outs in the US to reduce costs immediately and considerably, compared to indemnity insurance and HMOs. Carve-outs have quickly captured a large part of the organized market in US behavioral health. At the same time, market concentration has increased significantly. METHODS: The current paper uses concepts and results from t...

Morken Nils-Halvdan. 2008. PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF PRETERM BIRTH Studies using Scandinavian population-based data. Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Background: Preterm birth is an unresolved serious global health problem, research on which must be multi-disciplinary, with assessment of ...

No conceivable definition of public health can fail to include defense against atomic attack. The very word "public" implies a series of problems facing numerous individuals more or less simultaneously; "health" means the prevention of death or illness and the restoration of the afflicted. The millions in our possible target areas are the "public," and the 100,000 to 500,000 possible casualties...

ed from Table 2, page 425, Dublin, Louis I., and Spiegelman, Mortimer. Factors in the Higher Mortality of Our Older Age Groups. A.J.P.H. 42, 4: 422–429 (Apr.), 1952. Consultant, President’s Commission on Health Needs of the Nation. 1 Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Branch, American Public Health Association, Denver, Colo., June 6, 1952. First published American Journal of Public ...

Most adolescent gynecological problems are related to sexual activity or the development or failure of hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian-uterine activity. The 1st years of menstruation are usually anovulatory resulting in variable periods of amenorrhea which corrects itself in time. In profuse menstrual loss, endocrine, metabolic, and hemorrhagic disorders must be exlcuded before treatment with p...

Employees of coal-fired power stations and people living nearby as well as those involved in the shipment and processing of coal fly ash can be exposed to coal fly ash (pulverised fuel ash or “PFA”). An extensive research program was carried out in order to map such exposure and its effects. Particle size distribution, chemical composition, quartz, radioactivity, emission factors and fugitive d...