Progress and Problems in Preventive Medicine

Progress in Teaching Preventive Medicine in Medical Schools *

During recent years the teaching of preventive medicine has been discussed so widely in North America and in Great Britain that it now is possible to state certain general principles which are rather widely accepted in the English-speaking countries. On both sides of the Atlantic committees after considering the matter seriously have made their recommendations. In the fall of 1946 a five-day me...

Progress and Problems in Producing Nitrogen Dioxide-Philic Plants

The recently published articles in the Iranian Journal of Biotechnology inspired us to write this short communication on nitrogen dioxide NO2-phili...

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