This study was funded by a grant from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS (Grant # CSUR00003-03). The opinions and conclusions expressed in the paper are the authors' and no endorsement by the University of Southern Maine or the funding source is intended or should be inferred.

International Family Planning Perspectives Since the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, international donors to population and AIDS programs have been called on to respond to the ICPD goals for expanded and holistic reproductive health services. How have they met the call? Do donors really support post-Cairo sexual and reproductive health services, or d...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether Portuguese family physicians perform preventive health services in accordance with scientific evidence, based on the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary healthcare, Portuguese National Health Service. PARTICIPANTS 255 Portuguese family physicians selected by a stratified cl...

Information on the health needs of rural populations is meager in most parts of Latin America. This presents a critical problem for Bolivia, a country actively planning the expansion of medical and preventive health services to rural communities. While the Bolivian Government has established a health information system to report births, deaths, and utilization of medical services, marked underr...

TheNSWPublicHealth Bulletin has achievedmuch over the past 24 years and there is a great deal to celebrate. To support an agile, contemporary, public health environment the Bulletin is about to enter a new phase in its evolution – one that builds on its proud history and strongly positions public health for the future. The Bulletin will be renamed Public Health Research & Practice and will stre...

This article examines the effect of parents' Medicaid status on the use of preventive health services by young children. Using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we analyzed a logit model for receipt of any well-child visits (WCVs) that compared three groups of low-income children. The three groups, defined by the joint insurance status of children and their parents, in...

Adequate health care represents an issue that has always troubled rural America. From the earliest days of this country, affordable and quality health care has often been harder to find for those who those to live on the farm or in a small town or any place off the beaten path than it has for residents in urban areas. The State of Mississippi has undertaken an intensive program to widen access ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences of British Columbia's (BC's) Public Health Inspectors in practicing health promotion. METHODS We administered a mixed qualitative-quantitative survey to 15 BC Public Health Inspectors (in BC, titled Environmental Health Officers--EHOs), selected to represent different levels of authority, areas of work and geographic regions. We queried whether and how the...

BACKGROUND Participation in population-based preventive health check has declined over the past decades. More research is needed to determine factors enhancing participation. The objective of this study was to examine the association between two measures of neighborhood level social capital on participation in the health check phase of a population-based lifestyle intervention. METHODS The st...