This paper is an integral part of the special publication series that arose from the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project of the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply (CSES). The CSES project involves 3 housing systems for egg production at the same research farm site in the Midwest, USA, namely, a conventional cage (CC) house, an aviary (AV) house, and an enriched colony (EC) house...

Faith-based institutions and organizations represent a longstanding yet underutilized resource for health promotion and disease prevention efforts. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and its affiliated office within the Department of Health and Human Services, are the highest-profile markers of federal efforts, but most faith-health partnerships are not federal...

Jacquelyn Bialo, MPH Candidate You can’t look to any news source these days without seeing at least one headline about health care reform. It’s unavoidable— the health care debate is ubiquitous. With the House having passed an initial reform bill and a 60-39 Senate vote opening a floor debate about the 2,074 page legislation, Public Health Rounds asked some of our Tufts experts to weigh in with...

1 University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology, Health & Society, Child Mental Health Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Mulberry House, Eaton Road, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Social and Behavioral Interventions Programme, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Mental Health Progra...

STI Research Centre, Marian Villa, Westmead Hospital, 170 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. Department of General Practice, The University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, PO Box 154, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia. Albion Street Centre, 150--154 Albion Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia. Blue Mountains Sexual Health/HIV Clinic, Blue Mountains Hospital, Great Western Highway, ...

Water based paints contain organic solvents and many additives, such as biocides, surfactants, pigments, binders, amines, and monomers. The chemical complexity may introduce new potential health hazards to house painters, in particular irritative and allergic disorders. This study was performed to compare how house painters experience work with water based paints or solvent based paints, and to...