1Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; 2Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; 3University of Ghana School of Public Health/Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana; 4Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Implementation Res...

The influence of a range of actors is discernible in nutrition projects during the period after the Second World War in the South Pacific. Influences include: international trends in nutritional science, changing ideas within the British establishment about state responsibility for the welfare of its citizens and the responsibility of the British Empire for its subjects; the mixture of outside ...

This research explores how elective surgical patients make sense of their hospitalization experiences. We explore sensemaking using longitudinal narrative interviews (n=72) with 38 patients undergoing elective surgical procedures between June 2010 and February 2011. We consider patients' narratives, the stories they tell of their prior expectations, and subsequent post-surgery experiences of th...

OBJECTIVE This study provides a cost-benefit analysis of preemployment drug screening and evaluates the sensitivity of this analysis to variation in its underlying assumptions. DESIGN Cost-benefit analysis, based on a cohort analytic study previously reported. SETTING Employees of the US Postal Service in Boston, Mass. PARTICIPANTS Estimates of costs and benefit are based on a cohort of 2...

A. F. Pazmino, S. Godin-Beekmann, E. A. Luccini, R. D. Piacentini, E. J. Quel, and A. Hauchecorne UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7620, Service d’Aéronomie, 75005, Paris, France Université Versailles St-Quentin, CNRS, UPMC, Service d’Aéronomie, Route Forestière de Verrières, 91370 Verrières-le-Buisson, France Inst. de Fı́sica Rosario (CONICET – Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Rosario, Argentina Facul...

1 Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5...

1 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Ghana Health Service/School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere Univers...

Few would deny the contentiousness of the ongoing healthcare reform debate in the United States. Referencing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111–148), a recent article in Foreign Affairs noted that ‘‘no U.S. law has been more passionately opposed by Republicans.’’ Unsuccessful efforts to replace or repeal the Act keep coming, proposed and then voted down or withdrawn during...

This paper presents data from a study that collected observational data, survey data, and breath samples to estimate blood alcohol concentrations (BrAC) from patrons attending 30 bars. The study examines: (1) drinking behavior and settings prior to going to a bar; (2) characteristics of the bar where respondents are drinking; (3) person and environmental predictors of BrAC change (entrance to e...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an educational rotation site for numerous medical students and residents. These IHS rotations may be an important factor in recruitment and retention of physicians to the IHS. We describe the combined number of student/resident rotations in the Southwest IHS and their influence on recruitment and retention. We also analyze factors rel...