Public Health - Statistics & numerical data
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Gasoline prices and their relationship to rising motorcycle fatalities, 1990-2007.

18 Aug 2009 Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among young adults. Although automobile fatalities have declined in recent years, motorcycle fatalities are rapidly increasing. The purpose of our research was to quantify the relationship ... Read more...

Better adherence to antihypertensive agents and risk reduction of chronic heart failure.

30 Jul 2009 AIMS: Antihypertensive (AH) agents have been shown to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events including chronic heart failure (CHF). However, the impact of changes in patterns of AH agents use on CHF is unknown. Our objective was to estimate ... Read more...

Respondent-driven sampling as Markov chain Monte Carlo.

28 Jul 2009 Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a recently introduced, and now widely used, technique for estimating disease prevalence in hidden populations. RDS data are collected through a snowball mechanism, in which current sample members recruit future ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Public Health - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gasoline prices and their relationship to rising motorcycle fatalities, 1990-2007. 18 Aug 2009
• Better adherence to antihypertensive agents and risk reduction of chronic heart failure. 30 Jul 2009
• Respondent-driven sampling as Markov chain Monte Carlo. 28 Jul 2009
• [Method for the comprehensive improvement of health status and its effectiveness among college and university students] 3 Jul 2009
• Improving preventive health services training in chiropractic colleges part II: enhancing outcomes through improved training and accountability processes. 29 Jun 2009
• NIH funding trajectories and their correlations with US health dynamics from 1950 to 2004. 20 Jun 2009
• Does ratification of human-rights treaties have effects on population health? 4 Jun 2009
• Public health implications surrounding recent increases in retail gasoline prices are especially topical. 30 May 2009
• Implementation of pay for performance policy in England. 24 May 2009
• Bayesian versus frequentist statistical inference for investigating a one-off cancer cluster reported to a health department. 9 May 2009
• Using Biomonitoring Equivalents to interpret human biomonitoring data in a public health risk context. 29 Apr 2009
• Bayesian multivariate disease mapping and ecological regression with errors in covariates: Bayesian estimation of DALYs and 'preventable' DALYs. 28 Apr 2009
• Air pollution and health in Scotland: a multicity study. 15 Apr 2009
• The weapons that kill civilians--deaths of children and noncombatants in Iraq, 2003-2008. 14 Apr 2009
• [The dental aspects of public health in Hungary. Review article] 30 Mar 2009
• Toward the assessment of scientific and public health impacts of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Extramural Asthma Research Program using available data. 22 Mar 2009
• Measles elimination: lack of progress in the Western Pacific Region. 19 Mar 2009
• The transforming power of art. 17 Mar 2009
• Knowledge about childhood autism and opinion among healthcare workers on availability of facilities and law caring for the needs and rights of children with childhood autism and other developmental disorders in Nigeria. 10 Feb 2009
• The effect of state regulations on truck-crash fatalities. 13 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Public Health'

Definition: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.

Descriptor UI: D011634

Alternative terms: Public Health; Health, Public; Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health; Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health;

Related Mesh Headings: Preventive Medicine; Social Medicine; Zoonoses;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776.670; N01.400.550; N06.850;

Online Note: pre-explosion = PUBLIC HEALTH (PX)

Technical Notes: SPEC; SPEC qualif; a venerable hist & modern concept of the health & health problems of "the public": do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS