Erratum to “Development of an instrument for community-level health related social capital among Japanese older people: The JAGES project” [J Epidemiol 27 (5) (2017) 221e227] Masashige Saito a, b, , Naoki Kondo , Jun Aida , Ichiro Kawachi , Shihoko Koyama , Toshiyuki Ojima , Katsunori Kondo b, g, h a Department of Social Welfare, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan b Center for Well-being an...

Mental health problems in society cannot be underestimated. Many cases of mental disorders escape the attention family. Thus, it is necessary to create regional conditions that are alert its citizens. It involve local village community an effort achieve goal. Community empowerment strategies useful for identifying, overcoming and maintaining their area. a process developing potential both knowl...

background: assessing the growth of infants is a main parameter in their health assessment. thus, we have studied the growth condition of children from born to 18 months in this research in bandar abbas, iran, 2015. methods: in this descriptive study, we have selected 104 case records from the dataset of health center number 8 of bandarabbas by means of simple randomized sampling. all data abou...

Donna Erickson Wehner, Laurel Highlands Chapter, is Public Health Program Coordinator, Office of Community Health, Memorial Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, Johnstown, Pa, and Emergency Department Staff Nurse, Windber Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, Windber, Pa. Lori Sutton is Public Health Analyst, Office of Community Health, Memorial Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, J...

The African-American community has been disproportionately burdened by diabetes and its associated complications. Nearly 2.8 million African Americans have diabetes. It is essential to increase community participation in diabetes prevention and health promotion as a method to improve health disparities. To address these issues, the Center for Medical Treatment Programs in Diverse Populations (M...

The public health burden caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to adversely affect individuals in terms of cost, life expectancy, medical, pharmaceutical and hospital care. This burden has been excessive in the case of African Americans. The objective of this paper is to chronicle the procedures and processes that were implemented in the development of the Jackson Heart Study Coordin...