In theory, improving low-income families’ housing and neighborhoods could also improve their children’s health, through any number of mechanisms. For example, less exposure to environmental toxins could prevent diseases such as asthma; a safer, less violent neighborhood could improve health by reducing the chances of injury and death, and by easing the burden of stress; and a more walkable neig...

In this paper we study the effect of the business cycle on the mortality rate of the major racial groups in the U.S. Using county-level data from 1999 to 2005, we find that the unemployment rate is negatively related to mortality for whites and latinos but that there is not a statistically significant relationship for blacks. Moreover, the magnitude of this relationship is larger for latinos th...

committed the federal government to a process of "Administrative Simplification" to reduce healthcare costs, but Congress wanted to limit how far the healthcare industry could externalize attendant privacy risks to patients.4 Yet, in the aftermath, what should have been a substantial victory for patient autonomy and informational privacy has morphed into yet another divisive debate about profes...

What is 'GerES'? The German Environmental Survey (GerES) is a large scale population study which has repeatedly been carried out by the German Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) with financial support of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The objectives are ・ to generate representative data on the concentration distribution of en...

Analytical techniques Ageand sex-adjusted prevalence rates of depression and alcohol in immigrants and the Canadian-born population were compared. Variation by length of residence in Canada and country of birth was examined. Multivariate logistic regression models were run separately for depression and alcohol dependence, with adjustment for age, sex, marital status, income, and education. The ...

BY MICHAEL W. PEREGRINE AND JAMES R. SCHWARTZ T he year 2009 witnessed an extraordinary series of developments in nonprofit corporate and charitable trust law as they affect the governance and operation of hospitals and health care systems. This is consistent with a decade-long trend that has made corporate law and governance key legal feasibility considerations for nonprofit organizations. The...

abstract: background: today one of the main problems low or middle income families face is financing healthcare costs. this article studies the methods of of financing health care costs among hospitalized diabetic patients in different types of insurances. materials & methods: this is a causal-comparative study. the variables consist of comparative (health care costs) and categorical(different ...

study of mental health condition in newly‑arrived students of   urmia university of medical sceinces in 1379‑81     a. taghizadeh afshar [1] , m.d h‑ejaz [2] m. s h.mohaddesi [3] , m. s.     abstract :     introduction: mental health has an important role in efficiency of society. in regard to student's role in society, a research has been done to study of mental health condition in newly‑...