LONDON (AP) — Global lead ­ ers today reminded Bill Clinton of W ashington’s responsibilities as the sole superpow er and said revitalizing the U.S. economy is im portant to the entire world. Iraqis danced in the streets to celebrate President Bush’s loss, but Kuwaitis were heartbroken. Across the continents, reaction was generally upbeat, although s e v e ra l le a d e r s e x p re s s e d con...

INTRODUCTION Interventions are needed to prevent exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), which persists in certain immigrant enclaves, including Koreans in the United States. A faith-based and culturally acceptable intervention was developed and pilot tested in collaboration with Korean churches to address SHS exposure among people of Korean descent. METHODS A pilot cluster randomized interventio...

INTRODUCTION Breast feeding can promote positive long-term and short-term health outcomes in infant and mother. The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates (duration and exclusivity) in the world, resulting in preventable morbidities and associated healthcare costs. Breastfeeding rates are also socially patterned, thereby potentially contributing to health inequalities. Financial incentive...

OBJECTIVE To compare the proportion of recapped needles, an injury surrogate measure, in disposal boxes on two different types of hospital units, both before and after an intervention. DESIGN Prospective nonrandomized intervention trial. SETTING A major public teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Specific hospital units. We selected two types of hospital units for study: the first type of hosp...

OBJECTIVE Mental illness is prevalent among general hospital ward patients but often goes unrecognised. The aim of this study was to validate the SCL-8d as a brief questionnaire for mental disturbances for use in general hospitals. METHODS The study included 2040 patients, 18 years or older, consecutively admitted to 11 general internal medicine wards in seven European countries. All patients...

Our purpose is to categorize palliative care development, country by country, throughout the world, showing changes over time. We adopt a multi-method approach. Development is categorized using a six-part typology: Group 1 (no known hospice-palliative care activity) and Group 2 (capacity-building activity) are the same as developed during a previous study (2006), but Groups 3 and 4 have been su...

Interval-censored data are generated by a random survival time X and a random censoring interval. We either observe the exact survival time or only know the survival time lies within the censoring interval. Turnbull (1976) proposes a self-consistent algorithm for obtaining the generalized maximum likelihood estimator (GMLE) of a survival function with interval-censored data. Yu, Li and Wong (19...

BACKGROUND To understand the potential influencing factors on the effectiveness of workplace health promotion interventions and examine whether workplace health culture and physical environment can mediate the relationship between workplace health promotion and intervention effectiveness. METHODS A total of 719 participants from 10 Chinese government agencies were recruited for a prospective ...