INTRODUCTION Local health authorities need small-area estimates for prevalence of chronic diseases and health behaviors for multiple purposes. We generated city-level and census-tract-level prevalence estimates of 27 measures for the 500 largest US cities. METHODS To validate the methodology, we constructed multilevel logistic regressions to predict 10 selected health indicators among adults ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to estimate health expectancy for the Palestinian population and to evaluate changes that have taken place over the past 5 years. DESIGN Mortality data and population-based health surveys. SETTING The Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. PARTICIPANTS 17 034 and 38 071 adults aged 20 or over participating the Pa...

Mortality from ischaemic heart disease remains high in the United Kingdom, and the present report describes the prevalence of the various epidemiological manifestations of the disease in two recent community studies with a common core protocol, each containing samples of over 2000 men, carried out in South Wales (Caerphilly) and the West of England (Speedwell, Bristol). The prevalence of electr...

Using unpublished data from five completed prevalence surveys of Parkinson's disease (PD), we investigated case ascertainment uncertainties that potentially have a direct effect on prevalence. These uncertainties arise from the choice of diagnostic criteria, the choice of screening method, and the amount of information lost because of nonresponse. The surveys were conducted in Argentina, India,...

Research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has recently burgeoned because of its public health importance and scientific opportunities. While biological investigations are energetically pursued and now carry considerable promise, clinical and epidemiological research may also have a contribution to make (Khachaturian, 1985). Such work may help in identifying subtypes of AD, in establishing its natura...

The objective of the present study was to compare the reliability of four partial-mouth protocols for assessing shallow, moderate, and deep sites for periodontal pocket depth and clinical attachment levels. Periodontal pocket depth and clinical attachment level measurements were recorded for 156 subjects (age > or = 30). The four models of partial-mouth protocols compared were: Model I: all sit...

in the years 2012-14 a series of extensive surveys for natural enemies of parthenium were conducted in haryana. during survey, a leaf spot disease has been regularly reported on congress grass at different parts of the kurukshetra and its adjoining areas.the fungal pathogen was isolated from the affected parts of parthenium leaves and on the basis of cultural, morphological and molecular charac...

this research work on the status of poliomyelitis in iran, performed in 1954, in 1958-59, consisted in providing data on the past history of the infection and on its present diffusion in this country. the serological and coprologi~al surveys produced evidence of conditions similar to thos.e of other countries .with the same public health situation: large and permanent (without seasonal v~riatlo...

thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. this study surveys the pathologic characteristics of thyroid cancerin mashhad and study of papillary carcinoma in more detail. in this retrospective study, 108 out of 197 cases of thyroid cancer were papillary in type (55%), with female to male ratio of 1.91 which is lower than current reports. the age at the time of diagnosis ranged from ...