BACKGROUND The early recognition of stroke signs and symptoms is of great relevance concerning the outcome, since it enhances the chances of thrombolytic therapy use. PURPOSE To compare the knowledge of stroke among a community-based sample and patients treated in a cardiologic clinic. METHOD We applied a questionnaire during one morning to people who were walking in a park (Pa) and spontan...

We consider an issue of much current concern: could fairness, an issue that is already difficult toguarantee, worsen when algorithms run much of our lives? We consider this in the context of resource-allocation problems; we show that algorithms can guarantee certain types of fairness in a verifiable way.Our conceptual contribution is a simple approach to fairness in this context...

Australia’s publicly owned and managed National Parks estate has been largely quarantined from the micro-economic reforms that have been instituted across most other sectors of the economy. The public good, natural monopoly and equity arguments that are used to justify a continued dominance by the public sector in the production and provision of Park benefits are not watertight. Opening up the ...

Enzyme Immunoassay Reproducibility in Patients with Confirmed Disease and Controls Soofia Khan, MD; Rebecca Sunenshine, MD; Michael A. Saubolle, PhD; Kelly Barbian, MT; Megan Eguchi, MPH; Ahmed Mohammed, BVSc, MSc, PhD; Orion Mccotter, MPH; Ken Komatsu, MPH; Benjamin Park, MD; Michael V Lancaster, PhD; Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ; University of Arizona College of Medicine...

BACKGROUND Evidence of associations between the built environment and obesity risk has been steadily building, yet few studies have focused on the relationship between the built environment and aspects of metabolism related to obesity's most tightly linked comorbidity, type 2 diabetes. PURPOSE To examine the relationship between aspects of the neighborhood built environment and insulin resist...

1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2 Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY. 3 Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY. 5 Department of Pedia...

Address: 1Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham, 8 William Lee Buildings, Nottingham Science and Technology Park, University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2RQ, UK, 2Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK, 3Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 42 a A, FIN-002...

INTRODUCTION Primary features of observational public health surveillance instruments are that they are valid, can reliably estimate physical activity behaviors, and are useful across diverse geographic settings and seasons by different users. Previous studies have reported the validity and reliability of Systematic Observation of Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC) to estimate park and...

Based on the evaluation of accesses to attractions in “El Manguito” sector Pico Bayamesa National Park, a methodology is proposed determine optimal hiking routes based analysis existing ones Management Plan 2017-2021. Considering quantitative and qualitative criteria related environmental conditions, management, socio-cultural aspects trail users, new tourist route was along with fusion three p...

Charles Phelps, Guruprasad Madhavan, Kinpritma Sangha, Rino Rappuoli, Rita R. Colwell, Rose Marie Martinez, Patrick Kelley, and Lonnie King Departments of Economics and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20001; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, 53100 Siena, Italy; Center for Bioinformatics an...