the control of cigarette smoking can do more to improve health and prolong life than any other single action in the whole field of preventive medicine. many smokers desire to stop but need instructions and support. beside nicotine and carbon monoxide, there are a lot of carcion-genous materials in cigarettes. a positive relationship exists between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, bronchitis, ...

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Departments of Genetics, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Department of Molecular Biology, Diabetes Unit, and Hematology...

A joint optimization model of maintenance and operation high-speed train fleets is established with the objective minimizing total costs, considering dynamic passenger flow resources. new strategy CCPM (Coordinating Conflicts Preventive Maintenance) proposed to optimize problem. The effectiveness are verified by numerical examples. comparison between in paper existing approach proves that more ...

1 Global AIDS Program, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2 Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 3 An Giang Province Preventive Medical Center, Long Xuyen City, Vietnam, 4 National Hospital of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Vietnam National TB Program, Ministry of Health,...

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Departments of Genetics, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Department of Molecular Biology, Diabetes Unit, and Hematology...

BACKGROUND Health care organizations do not adopt best practices as often or quickly as they merit. This gap in the integration of best practices into routine practice remains a significant public health concern. The role of program managers in the adoption of best practices has seldom been investigated. METHODS We investigated the association between characteristics of program managers and t...

BACKGROUND The alarming incidence of self- burning provoked to set up a multidisciplinary preventive program to decrease the incidence and complications of this harmful issue. This study investigated the incidence and the preventive measures in self-burn in Fars Province, southern Iran. METHODS This study was a longitudinal prospective design on trend of self-inflicted burn injuries in Fars pro...

BACKGROUND Care management processes (CMPs), tools to improve the efficiency and quality of primary care delivery, are particularly important for low-income patients facing substantial barriers to care. OBJECTIVE To measure the adoption of CMPs by medical groups, Independent Practice Associations, community clinics, and hospital-based clinics in California's Medicaid program and the factors a...

OBJECTIVE Despite that the majority of US children use nonparental childcare (NPC), research examining its effects on children's preventive healthcare utilization is lacking. Our aim was to contrast NPC against parental childcare in terms of preventive medical and dental care utilization. METHODS Associations of childcare and healthcare utilization were evaluated using the 2007 National Surve...