Social Medicine is an “international, open-access, peer-reviewed academic forum for the development and promotion of Social Medicine”. Volume 1, issue 1 is now available.

Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (PDF) is a new report in the Vital and Health Statistics series (series 23, number 25).

The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) is now classified as a Search Functions Only dataset in SodaPop.  This decision was made because registration requirements complicate the archiving process, often resulting in an additional barrier to user access.  To avoid unneccessary complications, PRI is now only providing metadata and search function capabilities for the CHNS. 

Please note that if you have been using PRI’s CHNS PopNet UNIX collection, the Longitudinal Data Files and Panel Data Files (1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004) are still available (in original distribution format and as SAS datasets in /home/sas_data/chns).  The Paris Windows file server will also have a SAS’d copy of these datasets, as it serves as a mirror of the /home/sas_data collection on UNIX.  The collection is up-to-date as of 3/16/2006.

To find out more about the CHNS, or to search variable content, please see the PRI CHNS Web Page.  

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Funding for Faculty Investigators

APA Scientific Conference Grants - American Psychological Association (APA)

Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE): A Case-Cohort Study [application receipt date changed to April 18, 2006] - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Charlotte Geyer Foundation Grants - Charlotte Geyer Foundation

Conference and Workshop Grants - Wenner-Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research, Inc.

Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants Program - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)

Health Research with Diverse Populations (R01) - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Human Growth Foundation Small Grants Program - Human Growth Foundation

Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R01) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R03) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Information Technologies and the Internet in Health Services and Intervention Delivery (R21) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) [D43] - Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) - National Science Foundation (NSF)

Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R03) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) - Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R21) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) - Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) - Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

The March 13, 2006 issue of GrantWeek contains a report from the Grants Resource Center’s “Workshops on Successful Proposal Writing” which describes the characteristics of institutions that are successful in securing disretionary funding.

Access to Grants Resource Center publications is limited to subscribers; Penn State users can get login information from the Office of Sponsored Programs.

PRI has acquired the newly released 2004 NHIS Injury Episode and Injury Verbatim files for the PRI NHIS PopNet UNIX and SodaPop collections.

A Research Brief (PDF file) from the PaSDC shows Pike County as Pennsylvania’s fastest growing county and ranks 72nd in the nation in percent increase.

A new study says that US health care is “mediocre”, regardless of race, income, education or health insurance status. For more about the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, see the kaisernetwork.org Daily Health Policy Report from March 16, 2006.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for a 3-day advanced studies seminar on the use of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K) database.

The PRI Data Archive will no longer be maintaining the High School & Beyond PopNet UNIX collection. All data and documentation for this project are accessible through the Data Analysis System (DAS) offered by NCES (Online version and installable Window Software available); some waves are accessible through ICPSR.

PRI will be maintaining a High School & Beyond informational Web page to direct users to these resources. Please contact the Data Archivist with any questions or concerns.