IMPORTANCE Few comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction programs, particularly those in rural, low-income communities, have sustained community-wide interventions for more than 10 years and demonstrated the effect of risk factor improvements on reductions in morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE To document health outcomes associated with an integrated, comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduc...

The microbial quality of water plays a key role in community health. The present study aimed to determine the microbial quality of the drinking water distribution networks in the urban and rural areas of Dasht-e Azadegan County, Iran and assess the influential factors in the quality of drinking water.In this descriptive-analytical study, 907 drinking water samples were collected from the urban ...

ITE JOURNAL / MARCH 2001 THE ORLANDO-ORANGE COUNTY Expressway Authority (OOCEA) operates a 132-kilometer toll-road system in Orange County, FL, USA. This network includes 10 mainline toll plazas and 38 tollbooth ramps in operation. In mid-May 1994, the state-of-the-art electronic toll collection (ETC) system known as E-PASS that utilizes automated vehicle identification (AVI) technology was ins...

Rich sampling and modern research techniques, including SEM, revealed that rarely collected epilachnine species Epiverta chelonia is a complex of four closely related species: E. chelonia (Mader, 1933), E. albopilosa, E. angusta, and E. supinata spp. nov. All Epiverta species are described and illustrated, a key to the species and a distribution map are provided. Lectotype of Solanophila chelon...

After a 75-year absence from Florida, substantial local transmission of dengue virus (DENV) occurred in Key West, Monroe County, Florida in 2009 and continued in 2010. The outbreak culminated in 85 reported cases. In 2011 and 2012, only isolated cases of local DENV transmission were reported in Florida, none were reported in Key West. In 2013, a new outbreak occurred, but this time in Martin Co...

A REVIEW OF RURAL HYGIENE Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, professor of public health at the Yale School of Medicine, has undertaken a review and evaluation of the Cattaraugus County Health Demonstration, with special reference to its lessons for other rural areas.l Cattaraugus County is in New York State, and has a fairly stable population of 72,000, engaged chiefly in small inidustry and dairying, but i...

BACKGROUND To determine the epidemiological status of cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak, isolation and identification of the agent parasite, Leishmania, using PCR method in Gonbad-e Qabus County, north Iran, during 2006-2007. METHODS Data were collected on the prevalence of scars and ulcers over a period of 3 months among 6990 inhabitants of five villages around Gonbad-e Qabus County, north Ir...

entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. as regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in gonbad-e-kavous county. ...

T a r g e t i n g t h e M a r k e t f o r first noticed a problem when they were S t o l e n G o o d s : P u t t i n g a plagued with an unusually high number of N e e d l e i n t o t h e H a y s t a c k "trailer theft" calls for service. During the first eight months of 1996, more than 37 trailJudge's Commentary ers were stolen and only three trailers were Officers and agencies wishing to enga...

CONTEXT Escherichia coli O157:H7, one of hundreds of strains of the gram-negative bacterium E coli, has been implicated in numerous lake-borne outbreaks of infection during the past decade. In August 1999, several children who later became ill with E coli O157:H7 infection reported swimming in a lake in Clark County, Washington. The lake was closed and an investigation begun. OBJECTIVES To id...