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Packaging health services when resources are limited: the example of a cervical cancer screening visit
(Public Library of Science, 2006)
Background: Increasing evidence supporting the value of screening women for cervical cancer once in their lifetime, coupled with mounting interest in scaling up successful screening demonstration projects, present challenges ...
Antiviral Resistance and the Control of Pandemic Influenza
(Public Library of Science, 2007)
Background: The response to the next influenza pandemic will likely include extensive use of antiviral drugs (mainly oseltamivir), combined with other transmission-reducing measures. Animal and in vitro studies suggest ...
The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States
(Public Library of Science, 2008)
Background: Counties are the smallest unit for which mortality data are routinely available, allowing consistent and comparable long-term analysis of trends in health disparities. Average life expectancy has steadily ...
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States
(Public Library of Science, 2006)
Background: The gap between the highest and lowest life expectancies for race-county combinations in the United States is over 35 y. We divided the race-county combinations of the US population into eight distinct groups, ...
Whole Grain, Bran, and Germ Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study and Systematic Review
(Public Library of Science, 2007)
Background: Control of body weight by balancing energy intake and energy expenditure is of major importance for the prevention of type 2 diabetes, but the role of specific dietary factors in the etiology of type 2 diabetes ...
Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
(Public Library of Science, 2006)
Background: Despite the existence of effective drug treatments, tuberculosis (TB) causes 2 million deaths annually worldwide. Effective treatment is complicated by multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) strains that respond only ...
Cost-effectiveness of alternative blood-screening strategies for West Nile virus in the United States
(Public Library of Science, 2006)
Background: West Nile virus (WNV) is endemic in the US, varying seasonally and by geographic region. WNV can be transmitted by blood transfusion, and mandatory screening of blood for WNV was recently introduced throughout ...
Rosiglitazone and Myocardial Infarction in Patients Previously Prescribed Metformin
(Public Library of Science, 2009)
Objective: Rosiglitazone was found associated with approximately a 43% increase in risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a two meta-analyses of clinical trials. Our objective is to estimate the magnitude of the ...
Safe To Walk? Neighborhood Safety and Physical Activity Among Public Housing Residents
(Public Library of Science, 2007)
Background: Despite its health benefits, physical inactivity is pervasive, particularly among those living in lower-income urban communities. In such settings, neighborhood safety may impact willingness to be regularly ...
Will the Public's Health Fall Victim to the Home Foreclosure Epidemic?
(Public Library of Science, 2009)
Gary Bennett and colleagues discuss the ways in which the dramatic rise in home foreclosures, particularly in the US, may have health consequences. Summary Points: (1) While policy makers worldwide have scrambled to counter ...