Protective effects of condoms: implications for public health.

The implications of terrorism for public health.

The true historical significance of any event can only be assessed 50 years after it has happened but the view that ‘things will never be the same after September 11th’ now seems to be widely accepted. While some Europeans have lived with the threat of terrorism for many years, in regions such as Northern Ireland or the Basque country, the events in the US have added new dimensions in their sca...

Public health implications

Objective-To investigate the risk of cancer in children living close to overhead power lines with magnetic fields of : 0.01 microteslas (,uT). Design-Cohort study. Setting-The whole ofFinland. Subjects-68 300 boys and 66500 girls aged 0-19 years living during 1970-89 within 500m of overhead power lines of 110-400kV in magnetic fields calculated to be ,0-01 [LT. Subjects were identified by recor...

Public health implications of epigenetics.

Cats and Toxoplasma: implications for public health.

Cats are popular as pets worldwide because they are easy to care for and provide companionship that enriches the lives of human beings. Little attention has been focused on their potential to contaminate the environment with zoonotic pathogens. One such pathogen, the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, rarely causes clinical manifestations in cats or immunocompetent humans; however, it can ha...

Dementia and Its Implications for Public Health

INTRODUCTION With the aging of the U.S. population, a better understanding of the presentation and impact of dementia is essential to the future of public health. Dementia refers not to a single disorder but to a number of syndromes characterized by diverse behavioral, cognitive, and emotional impairments. Because dementia is costly in terms of both personal suffering and economic loss, an unde...