Preventive Medicine Aspects of Flight Feeding

Some Modern Aspects of Preventive Medicine

ment of diseased conditions, but have actually rendered possible the evolution of modern surgical methods. A yet closer tie has been established by the direct help which laboratory methods have of recent years afforded towards the discrimination of diseases, a help which further progress should render still more definite and valuable, and one which has been generously and ungrudgingly recognise...

Aviation Medicine in Its Preventive Aspects

AVIATION MEDICINE IN ITS PREVENTIVE ASPECTS. An Historical Survey. By John F. Fulton. New York, Oxford University Press, 1948. 174 pp., illus. $3.00. It seems proper that a physiologist should have wvritten a book about aviation medicine, dealing as it does with I. Altitude Sickness and Acclimatization: The History of Oxygen; II. Decompression Sickness: The Genesis of the Tissue Bubble; III. Pr...

Preventive Medicine

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...

Preventive Medicine

Background. African Americans have low immunization rates, yet little is known about their immunization knowledge, attitudes, and practices or about the effect of outreach to this audience. In Spring 1997, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) launched a statewide culturally sensitive and ethnically specific media campaign directed toward African Americans. This campaign was prece...

Preventive Medicine