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Call for Nominations: Global health ambassadors

Tara Murray — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:35:41 +0000

The Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research is accepting nominations for global health ambassadors. The ambassadors are US leaders in global health research who are committed to advocacy for global health research.

Nominations must be submitted by September 15, 2008. For details, see the call for nominations.

State- and city-level data on birth outcomes from KIDS COUNT

Tara Murray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:20:51 +0000

State- and city-level data on birth outcomes is now available from 2008 The Right Start for America’s Newborns in the KIDS COUNT Data Center. The entire data set is available for download as a delimited file.

Hispanics and Health Care in the United States

Tara Murray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:09 +0000

Results from the 2007 Latino Health Survey conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center are available in a new report, Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.

NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

Tara Murray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:41:27 +0000

The September issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an article on the NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, “the first federal initiative to support transdisciplinary multilevelresearch on the determinants of health disparities.”

Citation: Warnecke, R. B., Oh, A., Breen, N., Gehlert, S., Paskett, E., Tucker, K. L., et al. (2008). Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 98(9), 1608-1615. (Abstract available online; Penn State users check The CAT for print or online full text)

Obesity not a sure indicator of heart problems

Tara Murray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:34:11 +0000

Many normal-weight individuals have risk factors normally associated with obesity, and many overweight people do not have these risk factors, showing that we are still a long way from understanding the relationship between weight and health, according to analysis of NHANES data. (Baltimore Sun)

Citation: Wildman, R. P., Muntner, P., Reynolds, K., McGinn, A. P., Rajpathak, S., Wylie-Rosett, J., et al. (2008). The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering: Prevalence and Correlates of 2 Phenotypes Among the US Population (NHANES 1999-2004). Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(15), 1617-1624. (Available free online)

HRS: 2007 Disability Vignette

Lisa Broniszewski — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:15:26 +0000

HRS has released the 2007 Disability Vignette Study.

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

NHANES: May 2008

Lisa Broniszewski — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:57:27 +0000

PRI’s NHANES holdings are now current through May 2008. All updates and new files have been downloaded. PRI Researchers using this data are encouraged to look at SodaPop, PRI’s Data Archive for updated holdings.

Child health care indicators vary across US states

Tara Murray — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:00:12 +0000

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund finds that performance indicators for child health care systems vary widely across states, with Iowa and Vermont emerging at the top. The report, U.S. Variations in Child Health System Performance: A State Scorecard, is available for download from the Commonwealth Fund’s Web site, along with an interactive map.

POPLINE restores abortion as search term

Tara Murray — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:07:36 +0000

For a brief period, anyone who searched POPLINE using the search term “abortion” would get 0 results. Inquiries by concerned librarians revealed that POPLINE administrators at Johns Hopkins had made “abortion” a stop word after USAID, the reproductive health database’s funder, expressed concern about a few articles in the database. “Abortion” was quickly restored as a search term after numerous complaints.

For more, see articles at NPR and the Baltimore Sun.

Center to Society (C2S) Summer Biomarkers Institute

Ruth Kozar — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:05:22 +0000

The PRI Library has received announcement of the C2S Summer Biomarkers Institute, to be held June 9-11 at the Evanston, IL campus of the Northwestern University.