BACKGROUND The legal framework and funding mechanisms of the national health research system were recently reformed in Mexico. A study of the resource allocation for health research is still missing. We identified the health research areas funded by the National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT) and examined whether research funding has been aligned to national health problems. METH...

OBJECTIVES Racial differences in self-rated health at older ages are well documented. African Americans consistently report poorer health, even when education, income, and other health status indicators are controlled. The extent to which neighborhood-level characteristics mediate this association remains largely unexplored. We ask whether neighborhood social and economic resources help to expl...

cells produce and release granzyme B similarly to CD8 T cells, an activity not found in CD4 CD25 T cells. The authors further demonstrate that Bcell apoptosis mediated by CD4 CD25 T cells can be antigen dependent. CD4 CD25 T cells from mice bearing a transgenic TCR that recognizes an ovalbumin peptide were used for these experiments. Proliferating B cells were divided into 2 separate groups, on...

Household food insecurity indicators are typically static in nature, thereby ignoring a key dimension of food insecurity. This paper develops an explicitly forward-looking food insecurity indicator that takes into account both current dietary inadequacy and vulnerability to dietary inadequacy in the future. Application of this measure to data from northern Mali shows that neglecting the future ...

Clinical quality indicators are tools to measure the quality of healthcare and can be classified into structure-related, process-related and outcome-related indicators. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the electronic medical record (EMR) data from a Chinese diabetes specialty hospital can be used for the automated computation of a set of 38 diabetes quality indicators, espe...