Health care organizations can magnify the impact of their community service and other philanthropic activities by implementing programs that create shared value. By definition, shared value is created when an initiative generates benefit for the sponsoring organization while also generating societal and community benefit. Because the programs generate benefit for the sponsoring organizations, t...

We conducted an on-line survey of 164 local health departments' staff in five Northwestern states in 2006-2007 to assess Internet access and use by staff. Most (96%) respondents had full-time access to their own worksite computer. The most important selection criterion for selecting Web sites was credibility of the sponsoring organization (55%). Accuracy (46%), reputable source (30%), and curre...

Local health departments (LHDs) are changing service delivery mechanisms to accommodate changes in health care financing and decreased public support for governmental services. This study examined the extent to which North Carolina LHDs privatized and contracted out services and the effects on the time spent on core functions of public health and activities of health educators. Questionnaires w...

CONTEXT Numerous software and data storage systems are employed by local health departments (LHDs) to manage clinical and nonclinical data needs. Leveraging electronic systems may yield improvements in public health practice. However, information is lacking regarding current usage patterns among LHDs. OBJECTIVE To analyze clinical and nonclinical data storage and software types by LHDs. DES...

Many national organizations call for medical students to receive more public health education in medical school. Nonetheless, limited evidence exists about successful servicelearning programs that administer preventive health services in nonclinical settings. The Flu Crew program, started in 2001 at the Stanford University School of Medicine, provides preclinical medical students with opportuni...

OBJECTIVES To explore the key factors involved in decision making when selecting patients for rehabilitation after stroke and to examine the level of agreement among physician assessors regarding admission to rehabilitation. DESIGN Questionnaire. SETTING Health services with rehabilitation units in Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS Rehabilitation unit physicians. INTERVENTIONS Not appli...

The current study investigated the main and interactive effects of a nonclinical panic attack history and distress tolerance in relation to PTSD symptoms. The sample consisted of 91 adults (62.6% women; M(age)=23.45, SD=9.56) who met DSM-IV criteria for trauma exposure, 53.8% of whom met criteria for a recent (past 2 years) history of nonclinical panic attacks. Results indicated that distress t...

The paper presents a quantitative comparison study of some time−frequency distributions i.e. (TFDs). The comparison is in terms of a criterion known as the Renyi measure. The assessment of the TFDs is accomplished by evaluating the Rényi measure which yields the best time−frequency resolution. We show, using synthetic as well as real−life data, that a recently proposed TFD outperforms existing ...