Key Factors Inhibiting Legislative Progress Toward Smoke-Free Coverage in Appalachia

Progress toward universal health coverage in ASEAN

BACKGROUND The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is characterized by much diversity in terms of geography, society, economic development, and health outcomes. The health systems as well as healthcare structure and provisions vary considerably. Consequently, the progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in these countries also varies. This paper aims to describe the progress t...

Factors Influencing Progress toward Ecological Speciation

1CNRS, UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 45 Rue Buffon, CP50, 75005 Paris, France 2CIBIO/UP—Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, R. Monte-Crasto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal 3 IBE—Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, Avenue Doctor Aiguader N88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain 4Dep...

Factors influencing progress toward sympatric speciation.

Many factors could influence progress towards sympatric speciation. Some of the potentially important ones include competition, mate choice and the degree to which alternative sympatric environments (resources) are discrete. What is not well understood is the relative importance of these different factors, as well as interactions among them. We use an individual-based numerical model to investi...

Moving Multiunit Housing Providers Toward Adoption of Smoke-Free Policies

BACKGROUND Tenants in multiunit housing are at elevated risk for exposure to secondhand smoke at home because of smoke migration from other units. COMMUNITY CONTEXT In 2004, tobacco control advocates in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area began to address this issue by launching a campaign to work with landlord and tenant advocates, private- and public-sector property managers, and other ...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage