Methods The Allegheny County Department of Health provided virologically confirmed influenza data collected from all emergency departments and outpatient providers in the county for 2007 and 2011-2016. All-cause school absence rates were collected from nine school districts within Allegheny County for 2010-2015. For a subset of these schools, in addition to all-cause absences, influenza-like il...

BACKGROUND Petrochemical industries have been identified as important sources of emissions of chemical substances, and adverse health outcomes have been reported for residents who live nearby. The purpose of the current study was to examine the adverse effects of petrochemical industrialization in Taiwan on the life expectancy and personal income of people living in nearby communities. METHOD...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Idiopathic autism, suspected to be caused by exposure of genetically susceptible individuals to unknown environmental triggers, has increased dramatically in the past 25 years. The objectives of our study were to determine, using a linear regression model, whether the county prevalence of autism in the Pacific Northwest of the United States was associated with the source ...

To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated collaboration between the Lee County School Board and Lee County government (e.g., the Lee County Department of Planning, the Office of Smart Growth, an...

While DeKalb County, Georgia, offers free radon screening for all eligible residents, portions of the county remain relatively under-sampled. This pilot study focused on 10% of the census tracts in the county with the lowest proportion of radon testing; most were in southern DeKalb County. In total, 217 households were recruited and homes were tested for indoor radon concentrations on the lowes...

On August 12, 2010 the Clark County Historical Society unveiled a permanent exhibit entitled "The Archaeology of Clark County" in the Heritage Center of Clark County, located at 117 South Fountain Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. This exhibit contains numerous artifacts, which for many years had been on display in the museum in Memorial Hall, the former home of the Clark County Historical Society. Ab...

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania uses urban growth areas (UGAs) to prevent the loss of its productive farmland to suburban sprawl. In contrast to other areas that have implemented UGAs, the county government cannot force its municipalities to adopt UGAs, since Pennsylvania reserves all land use regulatory power for its individual municipalities. This paper will explore whether UGAs can be institu...

Marin County Department of Health and Human Services is currently developing a Quality Assurance/Improvement system for Child Welfare Services. To inform the design of this system, this study reviewed systems in place in Solano County Health and Social Services and Napa County Health and Human Services. Specifically, the following questions were addressed to each county: • What is the structure...

County extension agents in Colorado indicated that extension bulletins were the most important type of assistance needed for their clientele in the area of wildlife damage control. County extension agents indicated that pocket gophers, prairie dogs, skunks, and coyotes were the most important of 32 species requiring extension information for their clientele. Introduction Extension wildlife spec...

The study aimed at examining the relationship between quality of social support system and drug use among street children in Starehe Sub-County, Nairobi County Kenya. specific objectives were to: explore psychosocial health This adopted correlational research design. Data collected from 100 children. These sampled using cluster simple random sampling techniques a target population 30,000 Sub-Co...