BACKGROUND Based on death certificate data, the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics calculates age adjusted all-cause mortality rates for each Texas county yearly. In 1998 the calculated rates for two adjacent Texas counties was disparate. These counties contain one city (Amarillo) and are identical in size. This study examined the accuracy of recorded county of residence for ...

background: foreign immigrants form the part of the population of each country. among the foreign immigrant population in iran, the share of immigrants and nationals from afghanistan is very noticeable. one of the factors that affect this people's physical and mental health is social support. this study aimed to investigate the status of social support and its effective factors on afghan immigr...

Béla Pikó1, Ali Bassam1, Enikő Török2, Henriette Ócsai3 and Farkas Sükösd4 1Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, County, Center of Oncology, Gyula, 2Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, County Department of Radiology, Gyula, 3Kálmán Pándy Hospital of the Local Government of Békés County, Dermato-Oncology Outpatient Clinic, Gyula, 4University o...

If economic growth elsewhere raises an individual’s earning prospects relative to his present location, then the individual will move. However, if the individual can exploit economic growth elsewhere by commuting, he will not need to move to gain from the expansion. County-level data from eight states in the Midwest over the period 1969–1994 are used to show that local county population respond...

Susan Bell, Office of the Travis County Clerk Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research Michael D. Byrne, Rice University Dana DeBeauvoir, Office of the Travis County Clerk Bryce Eakin, independent researcher Gail Fisher, Office of the Travis County Clerk Philip Kortum, Rice University Neal McBurnett, ElectionAudits Julian Montoya, Office of the Travis County Clerk Michelle Parker, Office of the Travis ...

In the United States, heroin use is increasing and was implicated in 3805 deaths in 1993 (1). Multnomah County is Oregon's most populous county (1998 estimated population: 641,900); three fourths of county residents live in Portland. In 1999, in response to community concerns, the Multnomah County Health Department analyzed medical examiner (ME) data for 1993-1999 and interviewed heroin users t...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the validity of physical and mental unhealthy days as summary measures for county health status and to forward a method for examining county level health trends using a single year of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). DESIGN The study analysed geographical variation in physical and mental unhealthy days at the state and county leve...

b a ckground: malaria is an endemic infectious disease in southeastern parts of iran. despite years of efforts and intervention programs against malaria, transmission still occurs in jask county. m e t hods: the epidemiological perspective of malaria in jask county was conducted by gathering data from jask county health center, during 2006–2010. a knowledge, attitude and practice study was also...

This study investigates the usage of road networks both within and outside of home jurisdictions (city (or town) and county of residence) by analyzing GPS data collected in the Minneapolis Saint Paul metropolitan area, which tracked volunteers’ travel behavior to determine which roads (and thus which class of roads) users chose to accommodate their travel needs. More than half of the travel on ...