National Parks of Western EuropeAngus Waycott Inklon Publications, Southampton, 1983, £4·95 (HB) or £2·95 (PB).*

National health expenditures, 1983

Although growing more slowly than in recent years, spending for health continued to account for an increasing share of the Nation's gross national product. In 1983, spending for health amounted to 10.8 percent of the gross national product, or $1,459 per person. Public programs financed 40 percent of all personal health care spending. Medicare and Medicaid expended $91 billion in benefits, 29 p...

Exploitation of freshwater eels in National Parks

Hb Southampton [B106(G8)Leu→PRO, CTG→CCG] in a Uruguayan woman

Hemoglobin Southampton (also known as hemoglobin Casper) is a rare hemoglobin structural variant resulting from a substitution of a leucine residue for proline at codon beta106 [beta106(G8)Leu→Pro, CTG→CCG]. It is very unstable and associated with severe hemolytic anemia. We detected this mutation in a 37-year-old Uruguayan woman with a history of severe chronic hemolytic anemia since her child...

Mercury in Fish from National Parks

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic, global contaminant that threatens ecosystem and human health. Human activities have increased atmospheric concentrations 3-5 fold during the past 150 years. Airborne Hg enters environmental cycles in complex ways, resulting in the contamination of even remote places. The National Park Service (NPS) protects some of the most pristine and sensitive wilderness in North Ame...

Parks promoting physical activity: synthesis of findings from interventions in seven national parks.

BACKGROUND We synthesized the results of 7 National Park Service pilot interventions designed to increase awareness of the health benefits from participation in recreation at national parks and to increase physical activity by park visitors. METHODS A content analysis was conducted of the final evaluation reports of the 7 participating parks. Pooled data were also analyzed from a standardized...