Effective newsletters have theory-based content and designs tailored to their readers offer limited-cost community-level approaches providing helpful, relevant, engaging information. In accordance with this, we an example of a newsletter intervention that supported grandfamilies’ physical wellness needs. Six issues brief mail-delivered were sent yearly for up 5 years low-income custodial grandp...

The IDF Standing Committee on Animal Health has produced the IDF Animal Health Newsletter for a third successive year. The Newsletter is available electronically and in paper copy. The primary aim of the publication is to provide the IDF community with knowledge of current activities in the field of animal health. However, it also offers a forum in which short descriptions of recent research, i...

In this issue of the SIPTA newsletter you will find a discussion of Johannes von Kries’s connection to non-numerical probabilities, in our History section. This interesting piece is a contribution by Guido Fioretti, from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; I would like to thank Prof. Fioretti for his scholarly contribution, and highly recommend his other writings (that can be found in t...

It is always gratifying to see a Newsletter growing in stature, and even more so for its Editor. Now that GLOBEC International is in full implementation we want to use the Newsletter more and more as a vehicle to communicate scientific results, and I am pleased to see that many of you see it the same way. In this edition we have a substantial amount of scientific articles, mostly coming from th...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of the study were 1) to assess the effect of cash lottery on participation rates in a web-based study of physical activity and joint health and 2) to compare recruitment via direct e-mail versus advertisement in an online newsletter. METHODS A sample of 1,150 individuals, randomly selected from a database of members of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CAR...

ed from: EPI Newsletter 1991; 13 : No. 1, 2-4.