Reliable exposure factors are essential to determine health risks posed by chemicals in consumer products. We analyzed five risk-concerned product categories (anti-fogging, dye, disinfectant, repellent, and preservative products) for 13 products (three car anti-fogging products, a lens anti-fogging product, two car dye products, two drain disinfectants, an air conditioner disinfectant, a chlori...

The main aim of this study is to investigate the economic determinants of the demand for higher education at public universities in Jordan during the period 1990-2010. A co-integration analysis with four explanatory variables is used. Unit root tests have been employed to test the integration order of variables. For the purpose of supporting the results, the dynamic relationships among the vari...

Higher education is both a consumer and a producer of wiki content. The online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia, for example, is frequently used as a research device (although usually informally). On public wikis faculty and staff might modify content that pertains to the institution or its sponsored research. Moreover, institutionally supported wikis are becoming increasingly common as a p...

New safety recommendations for destroying enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) include cooking hamburgers thoroughly, incorporating a procedure that kills EHEC in the manufacture of raw fermented sausage, such as salami, and pasteurizing or using an equivalent processing method for apple cider. Public health problems with EHEC are being recognized throughout the world. The need for consumer educati...

Between June 1977 and May 1982, 2,291 samples of raw, cooked and dried foods were examined for the presence of Salmonella. Of these samples, 43 were positive, isolations being made from raw foods (4.8%) and cooked foods (0.4%) but not from dried foods. 14 Salmonella seratypes were isolated, Salmonella anatum being the most predominant. The significance of these isolations is discussed and the n...

Mark Schneider is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has written widely on education policy. His last book Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools (written with Paul Teske and Melis sa Marschall) was published by Princeton University Press in 2000 and won the 2002 Aaron Wildavsky Best Book Award from the Policy Studi...

The collaboration of public health education and information technology has made patient care safer and more reliable than before. Nurses and doctors use handheld computers to record a patient's medical history and check that they are administering the correct treatment. Fortunately Public Health Informatics (PHI) is the intersecting point of technology and public health. Therefore, the inclusi...

Information documented in published articles relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health issues is generally reported in a free-text or keyword format. This creates inaccessibility to bibliographic data in the health sciences and education-themed databases. The purpose of this poster is to describe the gaps in existing vocabularies and taxonomies, including the UMLS and Med...

Children and youth with special health care needs require more health care and related services and consequently incur more costs than other individuals. Implementation of the "medical home" concept has benefitted children with special needs, resulting in fewer unmet medical needs and more consistent health care delivery. As advances in health care have enabled an increasingly higher percentage...

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income— the growing weightless economy—influence economic development? Those technologies reduce “distance” between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows how demand-side attributes—consumer attitudes on complex goods; training, education, and skills for consump...