Helen I Woodward,Oliver T Mytton,Claire Lemer et al.
Helen I Woodward et al.
Medical errors and adverse events are now recognized as major threats to both individual and public health worldwide. This review provides a broad perspective on major effective, established, or promising strategies to reduce medical errors...
Approaches to uncertainty in exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology [0.03%]
环境流行病学中暴露评估的不确定性处理方法
Donna Spiegelman
Donna Spiegelman
Uncertainty in assessment of individual exposure levels leads to bias, often, but not always, toward the null in estimates of health effects, and to underestimation of the variability of the estimates, leading to anticonservative p-values. ...
Health in all policies-the Finnish initiative: background, principles, and current issues [0.03%]
健康融入所有政策——芬兰的举措：背景、原则及当前问题
Pekka Puska,Timo Ståhl
Pekka Puska
Many historical developments, such as the Alma Ata Declaration or the Ottawa Charter, have drawn attention to the need for intersectoral work and for considering the health aspects of different policy proposals. In the 1970s, Finland starte...
Artemis P Simopoulos
Artemis P Simopoulos
All diseases have a genetic predisposition. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) by large international consortia are discovering genetic variants that contribute to complex diseases. However, nutrient information is missing, which is es...
Methods for investigating gene-environment interactions in candidate pathway and genome-wide association studies [0.03%]
候选途径和全基因组关联研究中探究基因-环境互作的统计方法
Duncan Thomas
Duncan Thomas
Despite the considerable enthusiasm about the yield of novel and replicated discoveries of genetic associations from the new generation of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the proportion of the heritability of most complex diseases t...
The behavioral response to personalized genetic information: will genetic risk profiles motivate individuals and families to choose more healthful behaviors? [0.03%]
个性化遗传信息的行为反应：基因风险谱系会促使个体和家庭选择更健康的生活方式吗？
Colleen M McBride,Laura M Koehly,Saskia C Sanderson et al.
Colleen M McBride et al.
This report describes the use of information emerging from genetic discovery to motivate risk-reducing health behaviors. Most research to date has evaluated the effects of information related to rare genetic variants on screening behaviors,...
Stavros Garantziotis,David A Schwartz
Stavros Garantziotis
Gene-environment interactions are the indisputable cause of most respiratory diseases. However, we still have very limited understanding of the mechanisms that guide these interactions. Although the conceptual approaches to environmental ge...
Sonya A Grier,Shiriki Kumanyika
Sonya A Grier
Targeted marketing techniques, which identify consumers who share common needs or characteristics and position products or services to appeal to and reach these consumers, are now the core of all marketing and facilitate its effectiveness. ...
The health and health care of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents [0.03%]
女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋青少年的健康与医疗保障
Tumaini R Coker,S Bryn Austin,Mark A Schuster
Tumaini R Coker
Adolescents face a variety of challenges in their transition to adulthood; lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents face these typical challenges as well as additional challenges that are related to the social stigma of their sexual orientati...
Edward J Sondik,David T Huang,Richard J Klein et al.
Edward J Sondik et al.
Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive framework for improving the health of Americans, built on the foundation of several decades of predecessor initiatives. Its two overarching goals, to "[i]ncrease the quality and years of healthy life" ...