PURPOSE Describe the relative frequency and joint effect of missing and misreported fetal death certificate (FDC) data and identify variations by key characteristics. METHODS Stillbirths were prospectively identified during 2006-2008 for a multisite population-based case-control study. For this study, eligible mothers of stillbirths were not incarcerated residents of DeKalb County, Georgia, o...

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, public water sources must be monitored for contaminants; and the results are made public. However, this Act does not cover private wells, leaving a significant portion of the population unprotected. In one rural Georgia county, Washington, an estimated 3,997 wells are currently in use. Local health officials believe that well contamination is a problem for the...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer control efforts could benefit from estimating mammography prevalence at the substate level because studies have primarily analyzed health survey data at the national and state levels. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which geographic disparities exist in mammography use across counties in the contiguous United States. METHODS We estimated coun...

Classification: FS 52 u Od Local self-government has a long tradition in Sweden. The first legislation in this field is generally considered to be the Local Government Ordinances of 1862, which separated Church of Sweden tasks from civil ones. Church tasks were assigned to the parishes of this Lutheran State church, while civil tasks were assigned to cities and rural municipal districts. At the...

Past work related to the private prison system has focused on direct comparisons between private and public facilities, including their respective quality, costeffectiveness, and influence on recidivism. Using 2005 United States data compiled from a prison facility census, county census, and information on number of arrests by county, I examine the effect that the presence of private prisons ha...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, King County, Washington (1998 population: 1.6 million), experienced a substantial epidemic of infectious syphilis (i.e., primary, secondary, and early latent). Subsequently, reported cases of infectious syphilis declined to six cases in 1995 and one in 1996; five of the 1995 cases and the case in 1996 were believed to have been acquired outside King County...

scorpion sting is a common important health problem in south-west of iran. the present descriptive retrospective study was conducted to make new information on scorpionism in the lordegan county(2002- 2006). data collected in this study revealed that the highest incidence of scorpion sting cases was taken place in spring (49.72%) in 2006. the scorpions which have brought by the pateints to t...

Methods The Allegheny County Department of Health provided virologically confirmed influenza data collected from all emergency departments and outpatient providers in the county for 2007 and 2011-2016. All-cause school absence rates were collected from nine school districts within Allegheny County for 2010-2015. For a subset of these schools, in addition to all-cause absences, influenza-like il...

BACKGROUND Petrochemical industries have been identified as important sources of emissions of chemical substances, and adverse health outcomes have been reported for residents who live nearby. The purpose of the current study was to examine the adverse effects of petrochemical industrialization in Taiwan on the life expectancy and personal income of people living in nearby communities. METHOD...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Idiopathic autism, suspected to be caused by exposure of genetically susceptible individuals to unknown environmental triggers, has increased dramatically in the past 25 years. The objectives of our study were to determine, using a linear regression model, whether the county prevalence of autism in the Pacific Northwest of the United States was associated with the source ...