In its submission to the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) 21, the United States expressed an aspiration to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. This is not a commitment, but rather a publicly stated goal thought to be consistent with the global goal of keeping the anthropogenic rise in global mean surface temperature to less than 2 C. This artic...

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 81 God. One study found that 94 percent of patients admitted to hospitals believe that spiritual health is as important as physical health, 77 percent believe that physicians should consider their patients’ spiritual needs as part of their medical care, and 37 percent want their physician to discuss their religious beliefs more. However, 80 percent rep...

BACKGROUND The diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is a good marker of disease severity in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, and is associated with oxygen saturation; however, little is known about DLCO in systemic sclerosis patients with interstitial lung disease. We studied potential predictors of exercise-induced oxygen desaturation in patients with syste...

Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating anxiety disorder that may cause significant distress and increased use of health resources, the condition often goes undiagnosed. The lifetime prevalence of PTSD in the United States is 8 to 9 percent, and approximately 25 to 30 percent of victims of significant trauma develop PTSD. The emotional and physical symptoms of PTSD occu...

of-recommendation labels. A ppendicitis remains the most common acute surgical condition of the abdomen. In 1997, more than 260,000 new cases occurred in the United States. The overall lifetime occurrence is approximately 12 percent in men and 25 percent in women.1-3 Because abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in the outpatient setting, family physicians serve an important role in t...

This paper uses the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data collected in 1992-93 to estimate the determinants of child (aged 6 to 14) enrollment and educational attainment of a recent cohort (aged 15 to 19) in India. The analysis produces five major results. First, using an index of assets as a proxy for household wealth shows enormous gaps between the enrollment and attainment of children fr...

1 3 3 0 G S T R E E T N W , W A S H I N G T O N , D C 2 0 0 0 5 P H O N E : 2 0 2 3 4 7 5 2 7 0 , F A X : 2 0 2 3 4 7 5 2 7 4 W E B S I T E : W W W . K F F . O R G Chronic Disease and Co‐Morbidity Among Dual Eligibles: Implications for Patterns of Medicaid and Medicare Service Use and Spending By Judy Kasper, Molly O’Malley Watts and Barbara Lyons EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the passage of health...