Chernobyl and Iodine Deficiency in the Russian Federation: An Environmental Disaster Leading to a Public Health OpportunitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 - Trang 453-470 - 2002
Richard J Jackson, David M DeLozier, Gregory Gerasimov, Olga Borisova, Paul L Garbe, Lioudmila Goultchenko, George Shakarishvili, Joseph G Hollowell, Dayton T Miller
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, triggered a chain of devastating events that later included an unexpected increase in childhood thyroid cancer and evidence of iodine deficiency (ID) in Russia. For the Russian people the Chernobyl event had profound psychological impacts, provoking anxiety about nuclear technology and mistrust of governmental control efforts. Frequently in public ...... hiện toàn bộ
Smoking in prisons: The need for effective and acceptable interventionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 32 - Trang 32-45 - 2010
Catherine Ritter, Heino Stöver, Michael Levy, Jean-François Etter, Bernice Elger
Tobacco-smoking prevalence has been decreasing in many high-income countries, but not in prison. We provide a summary of recent data on smoking in prison (United States, Australia, and Europe), and discuss examples of implemented policies for responding to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), their health, humanitarian, and ethical aspects. We gathered data through a systematic literature review, an...... hiện toàn bộ
Estimating the Costs of Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease in California: 2000–2040Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 88-97 - 2001
Patrick J Fox, Neal Kohatsu, Wendy Max, Pamela Arnsberger
The costs of caring for people with Alzheimer disease (AD) in California are estimated using data from a study of the costs of caring for community-resident and institutionalized people with AD, combined will prevalence and population projections. Costs for community-resident patients will increase 83 percent in the period 2000 ($23.4 billion) to 2020 ($42.8 billion), and will grow an additional 5...... hiện toàn bộ