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  1. The Latino Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile

    Our report, "The Latino Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile" uncovers an array of racial inequities across the systems of income, employment, education, juvenile justice, corrections, child...

  2. Updating the Emergency Department Algorithm: One Patch Is Not Enough

    In this issue of Health Services Research, Johnston and colleagues present a patch to the New York University Emergency Department Algorithm (EDA), “the most widely used tool for retrospectively assessing the...

  3. Elderly stroke patients and their partners: a longitudinal study of social support and well-being changes associated with a...

    This investigation explored the relationship of demographic, social network, social support, and stroke-related factors to depressive symptomatology and well-being in 50 elderly individuals who had recently...

  4. A Novel Tool for Assessing and Summarizing the Built Environment

    Background: A growing corpus of research focuses on assessing the quality of the local built environment and also examining the relationship between the built environment and health outcomes and indicators in...

  5. Decreasing Disparities in Child Development Assessment: Identifying and Discussing Possible Delays in the Special...

    Objective: To assess how staff at the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) address potential developmental delays and parent developmental concerns in children...

  6. Collaborative Falls Prevention: Interprofessional Team Formation, Implementation, and Evaluation

    As health care rapidly evolves to promote person-centered care, evidence-based practice, and team-structured environments, nurses must lead interprofessional (IP) teams to collaborate for optimal health of the...

  7. Religion and Infant Mortality in the United States: A Community-Level Investigation of Denominational Variations

    A burgeoning body of scholarship has explored the influence of community-level religiosity (religious ecology) on various health outcomes. In this study, we enlist data from the Glenmary Census of Churches,...

  8. The road less traveled - defining molecular commensalism with Streptococcus sanguinis

    The commensal oral microbial flora has evolved with the human host to support colonization of the various intraoral sites without triggering a significant immune response. In exchange, the commensal microbes...

  9. Evaluation of Bicyclists Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution along Distinct Facility Types

    While bicyclists and other active travelers obtain health benefits from increased physical activity, they also risk an uptake of traffic-related air pollution. But pollution exposure for urban bicyclists is not...

  10. A Study of Riders' Noise Exposure on Bay Area Rapid Transit Trains

    Excessive noise exposure may present a hazard to hearing, cardiovascular and psychosomatic health. Mass transit systems, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, are potential sources of excessive...

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