We have investigated the usefulness of environmental health indicators for the evaluation of environmental health in Korea. We also assessed the association between environmental contamination and health outcomes by integrating indicators into a composite measure. We selected health-related environmental indicators and environment-related health status indicators. The data were obtained from pu...

This report provides the first look at demographics, health, and health care access among transgender adults in California who participated in the 2015-2016 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). In California, about 92,000 (0.35 percent) adults ages 18 to 70 are transgender. Transgender adults are similar to cisgender1 adults in many ways but experience disparities in mental health, disabi...

GOALS We aimed to assess use of colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) as per United States Preventive Task Force guidelines among people with mobility disability using a nationally representative data set. BACKGROUND Individuals with mobility disability have decreased access to health care services, but the impact of mobility disability on CRCS has not been investigated. STUDY Data from the 20...

The Health Status Indicators (HSIs) were developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process to facilitate the comparison of health status measures at national, State,and local levels. In this report national trends in racial and ethnic-specific rates for 17 HSIs are examined for the period from 1990-8. One of three overarching goals of Healthy People 2000 was to reduce health disparities. Exa...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced a set of health status indicators in 1990 in response to a need for health status measures that present a broad overview of health and can be used by various levels of government (1). The indicators include 18 measures of health status and/or factors that put individuals at increased risk of disease or premature mortality. The developmen...

OBJECTIVES Under the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (PL 106-170), states may extend Medicaid Buy-In coverage to a medically improved group. Improved group coverage allows adults with disabilities to retain Medicaid coverage even once they lose disability status due to medical improvement, as long as they retain the original medical impairment. The goal of this paper is to de...

OBJECTIVE To assess trends in selenium status in South Australians from 1977 to 2002. DESIGN Six cross-sectional surveys. PARTICIPANTS 117 participants in 1977, 30 in 1979, 96 and 103 (separate surveys) in 1987, 200 in 1988, and 288 volunteer blood donors in 2002. A total of 834 healthy Australian adults (mean age, 42 years [range, 17-71 years]; 445 were male). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Plasm...

Building on prior research that marital functioning is associated with a variety of health outcomes, we evaluated the association between marital adjustment and a marker of inflammation in a sample of married adults between the ages of 35 and 84 years old (N 415) from the second wave of the population-based Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II). Specifically, we evaluate...

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Using an indicator-based approach, we assessed environmental hazards and related health effects in populations of industrial cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Upper Silesia, Poland, and analyzed the relationship between environment and health. We adopted the method developed by Dutkiewicz et al. for assessing large geographic areas. Based on routinely collected environmental and heal...