Global Health Promotion Office, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Health Economics Program, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and...

N. FENELON, P. DELY, M. A. KATZ, N. D. SCHAAD, A. DISMER, D. MORAN, F. LARAQUE AND R. M. WALLACE* Department of Epidemiology and Laboratory Research, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Reconstruction Team, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Hyderabad is the third largest city of Pakistan, the second largest city of Sindh Province and one of the oldest cities of the sub-continent. This administrative headquarter is located just east of the River Indus and is an important commercial and industrial center. Once a provincial capital, it is at a distance of approximately 200-km from Karachi. This present study was conducted with the ob...

Background: Anemia is one of the most important nutritional disorders among children and adolescent in Iran and developing countries. Despite the possibility of anemia prevention, there is a high proportion of this problem in school children and especially infants. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of anemia in 6 to 12 months old children. Methods: This was a cross-sec...

Exposure to air pollution in city centers is of major concern because of its health-risks to urban dwellers, trafficcorridor users and even to in-transit commuters. The steady growth in traffic is the major source of toxic air pollutants in urban centers these days. Therefore, studying exposure to air pollutants in urban centers is of special interests to environmental health scientists. This s...

Shigellosis epidemics were investigated in two urban centers. In each city, preschool children played a major role in O!fecting their families and were most susceptible to secondary infection after illness had been introduced into the household. Children attending day-care centers were significantly more likely to be initial cases and to be the major cause of intrafamilial spread of disease tha...

BACKGROUND Despite strong evidence of the effectiveness of influenza vaccination, immunization rates have reached a plateau that is below the 2010 national goals. Our objective was to identify facilitators of, and barriers to, vaccination in diverse groups of older patients. METHODS A survey was conducted in 2000 by computer-assisted telephone interviewing of patients from inner-city health c...

Carriage rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their antibiotic resistance, capsular types, and genetic patterns were studied among 264 children aged 12-35 months attending 8 day care centers located within a 2.5-mile radius in the same city. Nasopharyngeal cultures were obtained within a 2-month interval from all 264 children. Significant differences in each of the studied characteristics were...

Background: Entamoeba histolytica are very common protozoan parasites in Iraq and causative agents of gastrointestinal diseases especially among children.
 Objective: To show the distribution Giardia lamblia children aging 6-12 years old Tikrit City.
 Materials Methods: A cross sectional study was carried on (1100) school attended Primary Heath Care Centers for period from February 20...

Background: It is known that Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) contamination in milk can have carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic activities especially in liver for both children and adults. The main aim of this survey was to investigate the incidence of AFM1 in human and cow milk in Kashan, Iran. Methods: A total of 42 breast milk samples were collected from a central hospital in Kashan city during 3-...