Sonya A. Grier is Associate Professor of Marketing, Kogod School of Business, American University (e-mail: [email protected]). Janell Mensinger is Director of the Clinical Research Unit, Department of Medicine, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center (e-mail: [email protected]). Shirley H. Huang is Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Chil...

1 Arizona Respiratory Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 2 Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 3 University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN. 4 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Hum...

1Department of Exercise and Health, Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon, 1495-688 Cruz Quebrada, Portugal 2Adaptive Rationality Center, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3Department of Medicine, Center for Community Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14607, USA 4Department of Psychology, Center for Health, Interve...

Loss of mobility in older adults (65 and older) is associated with falling, loss of independence, and mortality. This paper, which to the author's knowledge is the first of its kind, summarizes findings of Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) case reports and how FQHCs minimize the impacts of mobility loss in older adult patients (who would not receive primary services without these transpo...

background: current evidence consistently confirm inequalities in health status among socioeconomic groups, gender, ethnicity, geographical area and other social determinants of health (sdh), which adversely influence health of the population. sdh refer to a wide range of factors not limited to social component, but also involve economic, cultural, educational, political or environmental proble...

The department offers a four-year training program approved by the Residency Review Committee of the American Medical Association. Training experiences are available at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Additional experiences are available at affiliated institutions: Broadlawns Medical Center in Des Moines, the Iowa Medical and Classification C...

Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 [P. A. N., H. K.]; University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 [P. A. N., A. T-D.]; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02015 [D. H., K. M. E.]; and Center for Ecogenetics, Department of Environmental Health, Unive...

Support Groups for Patients Who Have Recovered From Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Pratibha Ambadwar, Deanna Duvall, Norma J. Wolf, Deirdra R. Terrell, Sara K. Vesely, and James N. George* Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of...