BACKGROUND This study examines differences in the factors female and male physicians considered influential in their rural practice location choice and describes the practice arrangements that successfully recruited female physicians to rural areas. METHODS This cross-sectional study was based on a mailed survey of physicians successfully recruited between 1992 and 1999 to towns of 10,000 or ...

We would like to welcome you from the editor’s office of the new journal Health Economics Review (HER)-the first health economic e-journal. We do believe that the time is right for this type of journal in the fast growing field of health economic research. It will be a very valuable additional option for authors and readers who have an interest in health policy, public health and health economi...

Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology • mcb.illinois.edu/departments/mip GREETINGS FROM THE HEAD Milan Bagchi Welcome to the 2015 edition of the MIP newsletter. As you turn its pages, you will come across an article that describes the early history of our department. You will be impressed that physiology has a long and rich tradition at the University of Illinois. The University op...

Message from John F. Powers John F. Powers, president of th« Civil Service Employees Association, has Issued the following statement: "As we enter the isolemn yet happy sea£K>n of Yuletide, I extend greetings and best wishes to all employees of New York State, and of every county, city, town, village and district. To the Governor, to all his elected and appointed aides; to th« public officials ...

It is a great pleasure for me to greet Professor Wade on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. I am greeting him on behalf of my colleagues in Moscow University who, like myself, have vivid and happy memories of his visit to Russia. It was 26 years ago when I met Bill Wade in Moscow where he spent the academic year 1977-78 as a visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics of Moscow Stat...

BACKGROUND Alcohol-related harms are a major public health concern, and population-level interventions are needed to reduce excessive alcohol consumption. Glass shape is an easily modifiable target for public health intervention. Laboratory findings show beer is consumed slower from a straight glass compared to a curved glass, but these findings have not been replicated in a naturalistic settin...