Along with a rise in the demand for medical services, and a steady increase in the costs of those services, the number of workers employed in the health services industry has grown at a very rapid pace . As the decade opened, about 4.3 million persons were working in hospitals, convalescent institutions, physicians' and dentists' offices, or other health care facilities .' By 1979, their number...

The genetic history of a group of populations is usually analyzed by reconstructing a tree of their origins. Reliability of the reconstruction depends on the validity of the hypothesis that genetic differentiation of the populations is mostly due to population fissions followed by independent evolution. If necessary, adjustment for major population admixtures can be made. Dating the fissions re...

Ruobing Qu,* Jingde Tao,* Yongmeng Wang, Youlang Zhou, Geping Wu, Ying Xiao, Chuang-Ying Hu, Xinghong Jiang, and Guang-Yin Xu Institute of Neuroscience, Laboratory for Translational Pain Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; Devision of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China; ...

OBJECTIVE To describe how Indigenous Peoples understand how to enhance use of their food systems to promote sustainability, as demonstrated in several food-based interventions. DESIGN Comments contributed by partners from case studies of Indigenous Peoples and their food systems attending an international meeting were implemented with public health interventions at the community level in nine...

M u ch has been written in the higher education administration literat u re about measuring the re s e a rch , t e a ch i n g, and service outcomes of faculty memb e rs (Braskamp and Ory 1994; Dilts, H ab e r, and Bialik 1994; Lewis 1996; Cent ra 1993). How each of many multiple outcomes enters salary determ i n at i o n e q u ations is also well studied, with even similar dep a rtments of econ...

Aboriginal peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada. These many diverse peoples have distinct languages, cultures, religious beliefs and political systems. The current dietary practices of Aboriginal peoples pose significant health risks. Interventions to improve the nutritional status of Aboriginal peoples must reflect the realities of how people make food choices and therefore should be...

CONTEXT It is unclear whether male and female physician researchers who perform similar work are currently paid equally. OBJECTIVES To determine whether salaries differ by gender in a relatively homogeneous cohort of physician researchers and, if so, to determine if these differences are explained by differences in specialization, productivity, or other factors. DESIGN AND SETTING A US nati...

This paper investigates whether the choice experiment approach can be used to assess peoples’ preferences and the determinants of these preferences in order to estimate the costs and benefits of different configurations of transports of hazardous materials on railways. In the study, changes in the exposure to hazardous materials that affected people are subjected to are used rather than changes...