Two noise annoyance surveys were performed in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, in a ten-year interval (1989-1999). This was a period of political and socioeconomic transformation as well as of changes in traffic management. Equivalent noise levels were assessed at the dormitory (exposed group) and in the residential areas (100 measuring stations) where another group of students (...

Editor — We conducted two workshops in Battambang, Cambodia, and Hunan province, People’s Republic of China, in 1995 for Red Cross first aid and disaster preparedness trainers, in the use of community surveys to prioritize health needs and identify local resources. The intention was to make the trainers alert to their communities’ needs and to use the findings to modify the training curriculum ...

This study compares the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of cardiovascular risk factors with clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) and with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis measured by ultrasound. The study population were 1410 participants in the Atherosclerotic Risk in Community (ARIC) Study (1987-1989) who also participated in a 1974 community health survey. Smoking in 1974 w...