Nearly one in five Medicare beneficiaries has diabetes and these patients face major challenges in managing their health. The high diabetes rate among beneficiaries also means that the Medicare program itself is highly vulnerable to the high costs of uncontrolled diabetes. As a result, great care must be taken when implementing any new cost containment strategy that has the potential to disrupt...

James Cerhan, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine Roy Correa, M.D. Department of Urology, Virginia Mason Clinic J. William Eley, M.D., M.P.H. Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Frank Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D. Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program, University of New Mexico School of Medicine Benjamin Hankey, Sc.D. Cancer Control Res...

OBJECTIVES To provide precise information about child injuries, intended to promote preventive actions, in keeping with the general pattern of a Safe Community program implemented in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) since 1997. METHODS Information about children under 16 injured in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt and its surroundings, are extracted in a database. DISCUSSION The Boulogne-Billa...

This study has demonstrated that additional training of service providers [village health volunteers (VHVs), village health communicators (VHCs)] in combination with the mobilization of village leaders and influentials to promote selective preventive health behavior, can have a marked impact upon the effective practice of these behaviors and diarrheal incidence. Further, this impact can be achi...

Based on a literature review and a survey of existing programs, this preventive outreach program emphasizes staff training in order to prepare college staff to implement a variety of outreach efforts following the suicide attempt or death of a student on campus. Specific guidelines are offered for the management of the suicide crisis, with special attention focused on the friends of the suicide...

OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of parents' global adaptive functioning as a predictor of participation rate and subsequent child social competence outcome in 3 program components of an evidence-based, multifaceted, preventive intervention for at-risk children. METHOD Families of program children (n = 124, mean age 6.6 years at recruitment) were offered 3 program components that continu...