OBJECTIVE To examine strict smoke-free home policies among smoking parents assessed in pediatric offices. METHODS We analyzed baseline parental survey data from 10 control practices in a national trial of pediatric office-based tobacco control interventions (Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, CEASE). We used logistic regression models with generalized estimating equations to e...

We systematically evaluated smoking-related costs in multiunit housing. From 2008 to 2009, we surveyed California multiunit housing owners or managers on their past-year smoking-related costs and smoke-free policies. A total of 27.1% of respondents had incurred smoking-related costs (mean $4935), and 33.5% reported complete smoke-free policies, which lowered the likelihood of incurring smoking-...

This is the fourth of a series of yearly conferences on the physiology of prematurity, which are attended by 25 invited persons of varied disciplines. These bring their different approaches to bear in the discussions which center about an informally presented topic on a given day in which one or two of the guests are featured. This conference was built around three topics: heat regulation (pres...

BACKGROUND The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals call for the end of poverty and the equitable provision of healthcare. These goals are often at odds, however: health seeking can lead to catastrophic spending, an outcome for which cancer patients and the poor in resource-limited settings are at particularly high risk. How various health policies affect the additional aims of financ...

maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in china. urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. to address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.

Background. The World Wide Web (WWW) is increasingly being used as a delivery platform for biomedical documents. Methods to implement data integrity policies are needed to ensure the correctness of information contained in these documents. Such policies are intended to ensure that data remain consistent with its source and to allow the identification of errors, duplications, omissions, and inte...