Prevention and Medical Education

Adoption of the new perspective of public health as a comprehensive and multidisciplinary mixture of objectives and activities requires a novel approach to the planning and the evaluation of health programs and to the training of health personnel.The...

During the influenza season of 1979-80, influenza B accounted for most cases of influenza in the United States. The midwestern States experienced widespread influenza B activity beginning in mid-December. From late January to mid-February an outbreak...

Supplementation of commercially prepared foods with vitamins and minerals has become routine in the United States since the 1940s. Although such additives are classified as "generally regarded as safe" (GRAS) (I), mistakes in adding or mixing can res...

Linked birth and death records provided the population for a study of trends in low birth weight (LBW) rates in Baltimore between 1972 and 1977 and of the effect of changes in the characteristics of the childbearing population on these trends. The im...