♦ Personal protective measures, such as using insect repellent, wearing longsleeved shirts and long pants while outdoors, and avoiding tick and mosquito habitat, reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases. Vector-borne Diseases in Hennepin County Key Findings Introduction This Epidemiology Update summarizes vector-borne disease cases and trends in Hennepin County. This issue is one in a series of...

BACKGROUND In 2004, the Ministry of Health issued the policy of decentralising microscopy services (MCs) to one third of all township hospitals in China. The study was conducted in Gansu Province, a poor western one in China. Ganzhou was one county in Gansu Province. Ganzhou County was identified as a unique case of further decentralisation of tuberculosis (TB) treatment services in township ho...

845. Utilizing an Equitable and Multifaceted Zika Screening Tool to Identify At-Risk Individuals For Testing and Education: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Harris County, Texas. Aisha Haynie, MD, MPA; Diana Martinez, MPH, PhD; Sherry Jin, MD, MPH; Tamisha Piper, MPAS, PA-C; Brian Reed, MD and Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH; Disease Control & Clinical Prevention, Harris County Public Healt...

• Uniformity of growth. A county may grow by 10 percent in population, that growth may be very unevenly distributed around the county. In one extreme case, all the growth is in one township with no change in any of the other townships. Another extreme would have all townships growing at exactly the same rate of increase. We will use two measures—the range of growth rates and the coefcient of v...

Year Book of Pediatric Radiology © County Teaching Hospital, Miskolc, Hungary Editor: Bela Lombay M.D. Chief, Department of Pediatric Radiology, County Teaching Hospital, Miskolc http://www.socrad.hu Hungarian Society of Radiologists PULMONARY INTRALOBAR SEQUESTRATION IN A PATIENT WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS A case report Sólyom E.', Lombay B.2, Borsodi K.', Verebély T.2, Póder Gy.l. Borsod County Tea...

In 1992, Sonoma County undertook the reorganization of Aging and Adult Services as part of a planning process that involved a comprehensive restructuring of many county government programs. It was predicated on the Board of Supervisors’ goal of reducing the cost of government and consolidating services with the idea that the newly created division would be the focal point for accessing services...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of dietary counselling and complementary food supplements on anaemia and stunting prevalence in children aged 6-23 months. DESIGN A controlled intervention study with measurements of height and haemoglobin levels, and cross-sectional surveys in August 2012 (baseline), 2013 (mid-term) and 2014 (end-line). SETTING One intervention county and one control c...

In late 2010 , a request was made by members of the public to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors (the Board) to ban the use of smart meters in Monterey County due to concerns about potential adverse health effects. On January I Ph, 2011 , the Board requested that the Monterey County Health Department review the literature and produce a report summarizing scientific findings related to sma...