Factors predicting the capacity of Los Angeles city-region recreation programs to promote energy expenditure.

17. Access to Parks and Park Facilities in the Green Visions Plan Region

Thanks to the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation website for cover photos. the mission of the green Visions Plan for 21st Century Southern California is to offer a guide to habitat conservation, watershed health and recreational open space for the Los Angeles metropolitan region. the Plan will also provide decision support tools to nurture a living green matrix for southern California. Our...

Education Level and Self-rated Health in the United States: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns

Introduction: Although education is among the major socioeconomic status (SES) resources that influence populations’ and individuals’ health, social marginalization may reduce the health gain that follows access to SES indicators such as education, a pattern called marginalization-related diminished return (MDR). The literature on MDRs, however, has been mainly derived from stu...

Effect of health maintenance programs on Los Angeles City firefighters.

Social Determinants of Polypharmacy in First Generation Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

Current research on methamphetamine: Epidemiology, medical and ‎psychiatric effects, treatment, and harm reduction efforts

Background: Methamphetamine (MA) which is known as “shisheh” in Iran is a drug that widely is used in many parts of the world and it is near to a decade that is available for the most drug users and has a considerable prevalence of use. Due to high abuse prevalence and very new challenging phenomenon, it is very important that researchers and treatment providers become more familiar with differ...