An Ounce of Prevention: Tobacco Control Saves Lives, Saves Money

The Role of Quitlines in Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of death and disease in the United States; more than 440,000 people in this country die of tobacco-related diseases each year (CDC 2002a). Fortunately, cessation of tobacco use can reduce the risk of tobacco-related disease, even among those who have used tobacco for decades (USDHHS 2000a, USDHHS 2000b, Peto et al. 2000, Taylor et al. 2002). Cessati...

Safety cameras: more, not fewer, saves lives.

Suicide prevention training saves lives in Nunavut.

Preferences for lives, injuries, and age: a stated preference survey.

One of the more difficult ethical questions from a public decision-making perspective is whether the estimation of benefits from risk reducing projects should be influenced by factors such as age groups and risk domains. For example, should a project that saves the lives of elderly people be assigned a more different benefit value in cost-benefit analyses than one that saves the same number of ...

An Online Simulation in Pediatric Asthma Management

Introduction The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that nearly 20 million Ame ricans suffer from asthma, 6.3 million of which are children(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). It is not merely an annoyance disease, as is commonly believed. Asthma kills. It takes more than 5,000 American lives each year(Asthma Statistics in America, 2004). Asthma is the most common chroni...