The 2001 World Trade Center and 2005 Hurricane disasters, and the 2014 Ebola outbreak were major events that tasked the United States' public health emergency preparedness and response apparatus. The health and economic cost of these events is huge including over 4000 deaths and damages to infrastructure worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, the U.S. labor force was disproportio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of primary care group visits (chronic care clinics) on the process and outcome of care for diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We evaluated the intervention in primary care practices randomized to intervention and control groups in a large-staff model health maintenance organization (HMO). Patients included diabetic patients > or = 30 years of age i...

BACKGROUND The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia has been publishing Health and Health related indicators of the country annually since 1987 E.C. These indicators have been of high importance in indicating the status of health in the country in those years. However, the trends/patterns of these indicators and the factors related to the trends have not yet been investigated in a systematic ...

BACKGROUND In western Sweden, the aim was to study the associations between oral health variables and total and central adiposity, respectively, and to investigate the influence of socio-economic factors (SES), lifestyle, dental anxiety and co-morbidity. METHODS The subjects constituted a randomised sample from the 1992 data collection in the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenbur...

BACKGROUND Forecasting of health indicators is of great importance for health policy makers. This study is aimed to forecast some important health indicators like crude death rate (CDR), crude birth rate (CBR), and infant mortality rate (IMR) and total fertility rate (TFR) of Pakistan. METHODS In this retrolective study, annual data of these indicators for years 1984-2010 have been used. The ...

Spurred by our National Educational Goals, as well as by the economic woes of school dropouts, wehave improved the conceptualization and measurement of high school dropout. Moreover, greater public andprivate resources have been devoted to development and dissemination of temporally and spatially comparableindicators of dropout. These may help improve both our understanding of schoo...

background: in order to describe the patients and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for widow spider envenomation, investigators require a reliable assessment tool. in this paper, the development of a clinical index for measuring the widow spider bite severity, latrodectus envenomation severity score (less), is described. methods: according to the valid methods for index development, a d...