Environmental factors greatly affect human health. Accordingly, environmental metrics are a key part of the community health information base. We review environmental metrics relevant to community health, including measurements of contaminants in environmental media, such as air, water, and food; measurements of contaminants in people (biomonitoring); measurements of features of the built envir...

– in this paper we consider some (α ,β ) -metrics such as generalized kropina, matsumoto and f (α β )2α = + metrics, and obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for them to be einstein metrics when βis a constant killing form. then we prove with this assumption that the mentioned einstein metrics must beriemannian or ricci flat.

Effective health policies and allocation of public health resources can substantially improve public health. An objective of public health practitioners and researchers is to identify key metrics that would help improve effective policies and terminate poor ones. We review articles published in 2008 surrounding measurement issues for public health policy and present a set of recommendations for...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to compare different methods of health status assessment in organized cohort of penitentiary employees in Saratov Region, Russian Federation. MATERIALS AND METHODS 1,014 penitentiary employees (81.8% male) aged 33.4±6.8 years were included in the cohort study. All participants underwent an annual preventive health examination in the Center of Medical...

Effective health policies and allocation of public health resources can substantially improve public health. An objective of public health practitioners and researchers is to identify key metrics that would help improve effective policies and terminate poor ones. We review articles published in 2008 surrounding measurement issues for public health policy and present a set of recommendations for...

INTRODUCTION In the traditional model of care, an annual visit was dedicated to the task of assessing and delivering preventive care. With the move away from annual physicals, primary care physicians are addressing preventive services at every clinic visit often aided by electronic clinical decision support (CDS) systems. METHODS We conducted a case study of a visit-driven CDS system in use a...