Healthy people 2000

Healthy People 2000

Sir A very welcome recent editorial in the Journal (Smith, 1991) addressed the important question of the use of LHRH analogues in breast cancer, but we do not consider all of the viewpoints expressed to be either definitive or necessarily correct: Firstly, the word analogues is used throughout as being synonymous with LHRH agonists. This is now a historical viewpoint as pure LHRH antagonists ar...

Healthy People 2000 midcourse revisions: a compendium.

As part of the continuing evaluation of the health of Americans, a midcourse review of the Healthy People 2000 objectives (1) added several new objectives and identified changes to some of the objectives released in 1990 (2). The midcourse review also documented numerous previous revisions to Healthy People 2000 baselines (3) and the setting of new targets for some objectives. The purpose of th...

Healthy buildings, healthy people

When researcher Melkam Kebede started her five-year fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, she was struck by the abundance of natural light and design features that encouraged people to move and mingle. “I’ve worked in many places before, but never seen laboratories with so much natural light,” says Kebede, whose research is on the links between type 2 ...

Paying People to Be Healthy

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

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