Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...

Background. African Americans have low immunization rates, yet little is known about their immunization knowledge, attitudes, and practices or about the effect of outreach to this audience. In Spring 1997, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) launched a statewide culturally sensitive and ethnically specific media campaign directed toward African Americans. This campaign was prece...

in 1920 stated in regard to the teaching of hygiene and preventive medicine, that these were principles and concepts and not merely 'subjects', and that the teaching of preventive medicine should permeate the whole of medical education. The general practitioner must develop the preventive outlook, and preach and practise it in his profession. In the United Kingdom, the practitioner has already ...

This report is concerned with the sources of language a lack of systematic work on the possible effects of landevelopment in the child. We have found a substantial guage input on vocabulary size. Clearly, however, vocabrelation between naturally occurring variations in ulary has to be learned, and attaining a large vocabuchildren’s language environments and their language lary is a huge associa...

Epidemiologic studies of Seventh-Day Adventists have clearly shown that dietary habits are associated with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and other chronic diseases. However, a few surprising results emerge. Meat consumption is clearly hazardous for Adventist men by raising CHD mortality. However, no such effect was seen in women. Possible reasons are discussed. Our data, and that of othe...