BACKGROUND Community food programs (CFPs) provide an important safety-net for highly food insecure community members in the larger settlements of the Canadian Arctic. This study identifies who is using CFPs and why, drawing upon a case study from Inuvik, Northwest Territories. This work is compared with a similar study from Iqaluit, Nunavut, allowing the development of an Arctic-wide understand...

The management of peptic ulcer is a big subject to discuss exhaustively, and so I will deal with three aspects of it?firstly, the significance of periodicity ; secondly, the factors producing healing of the ulcer ; and thirdly, the surgical aspect. Let me begin by reviewing some of the events in the life of a sufferer from this disease. The patient, usually an otherwise healthy person in youth ...

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In this paper, we model the associations of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are 45 years and older in two quite distinct provinces-Zhejiang, a high growth industrialized province on the Ea...

This article provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had during c...

A positive association between intelligence (IQ) and height has been reported previously. It is generally assumed that this association reflects the effect of childhood environment on IQ, but there is still little research supporting directly this hypothesis. We studied the association between height and IQ in 209 Dutch twin pairs at the ages of 5, 7, 10 and 12 years, 208 twin pairs at 16 and 1...

Cardiovascular load of underground shovelers was assessed in terms of heart rate changes at work in haulage coalmines. Twenty underground shovelers of two different age groups (those of age 31-39 and those of age 40-49) served as subjects. Working heart rate was significantly higher (p < 0.01) in the older group (138.2 beats/min) than in the younger group (130.4 beats/min). Though the net cardi...