OBJECTIVE To examine disparities in the receipt of preventive care recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) between Appalachian and non-Appalachian counties and within Appalachian counties. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data for 2008-2010 were used to identify individuals with diabetes and their preventive care usage. Each Appalac...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate interventions to improve routine vaccination coverage and caregiver knowledge in China's remote west, where routine immunisation is relatively weak. DESIGN Prospective pre-post (2006-2010) evaluation in project counties; retrospective comparison based on 2004 administrative data at baseline and surveyed post-intervention (2010) data in selected non-project counties. SE...

nosema is a genus of microsporidia, which have significant negative impacts on honeybees. the aim of this study is the epidemiological evaluation and molecular characterization of nosema spices in various counties of east-azerbaijan province (northwest of iran). 387 samples were collected from colonies maintained in various counties of east-azerbaijan province. samples after preparation were...

Garadna-Kovács tanya lelőhely területe már 23 éve ismert a régészeti kutatás számára. A akkor került ismét reflektorfénybe, amikor 2018-ban elkezdődött az M30 autópálya C építési szakasza. település teljes felületének feltárásán túl elmúlt évek során felszínre több mint 114.000 darab paticslelet (kiégett agyagtapasztás-maradvány), melyekkel elemzésemben foglalkoztam. paticsok vizsgálatának egyi...

this paper focus on the impact on the performance of health workers at village and township levels in the provision of a government stipulated package of basic public health service, which adopted the performance-related contracts mode.the concept of balanced scorecard was adopted and developed to gather the 11 evaluation indicators distributed in four quadrants. these were implemented using on...

background : the goal of this study was to know the identity of leishmania species responsible of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) in fars province, southern iran. methods : five counties of shiraz, firouz abad, ghir-karzin, farashband and larestan were pros-pected. forty-four patients exhibiting cutaneous lesions were selected. samples collected on skin le-sions were examined both microscopically ...

OBJECTIVES To examine hospitalizations and length of stay (LOS) for infants aged <1 year in rural and urban counties, hypothesizing that infants living in rural counties experience significantly different hospital use compared with urban infants. METHODS Birth certificates for infants born in California hospitals between 1993 and 2005 and surviving to discharge were linked to hospital dischar...

BACKGROUND The demographic and geographic characteristics of the HIV epidemic in the US has changed substantially since the disease emerged, with women in the South experiencing a particularly high HIV incidence. In this study, we identified and described counties in the US in which the prevalence of HIV is particularly high in women compared to men. METHODS Using data from AIDSVu, a public d...