BACKGROUND Access to mental health care services for patients with neuropsychiatric disorders remains low especially in post-conflict, low and middle income countries. Persons with mental health conditions and epilepsy take many different paths when they access formal and informal care for their conditions. This study conducted across three countries sought to provide preliminary data to inform...

BACKGROUND Recent clinical studies showed that lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2)) is a predictor for incident atherosclerotic disease. We have previously shown that among the LDL subfractions, Lp-PLA(2) activity is preferentially associated with the atherogenic small, dense (sdLDL) particles in vitro. We investigated whether Lp-PLA(2) could be a marker of sdLDL in human plasm...

Ro le o f s t a t e coa l i t i on s The mission of the Coalition for Oral Health for the Aging (COHA; www.micoha.org) is to improve the oral health of older people through advocacy, professional education, public education, and research by focusing on prevention, health promotion, and evidence-based practices. This mission is achieved through COHA’s organizational goals: (1) to be a resource f...

Copyright: © 2012 Caruso JF. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Resistive exercise is an increasingly popular modality to improve numerous performance and health-related outcomes. Due to its popul...

Public health communication is the production and exchange of information to inform, influence or motivate the target audience to enable desirable, sustainable health practices at individual, community and institutional levels. This paper explores key issues relating to health communication in refugees and other displaced populations, i.e. the “hardly reached”.1 Though there are several challen...

Although medical evidence suggests that the mortality rates for cardiovascular disease can be significantly reduced by lowering blood cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease ranks as the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Approximately 100 million American adults have total blood cholesterol levels of 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) and higher, and about 40 million of thes...