High impact information on Urban Health

• The incidence of epilepsy and unprovoked seizures in multiethnic, urban health maintenance organizations [1].
• Public health services have been strengthened in the past 12 years through the support of a bilateral program called the Dar es Salaam Urban Health Project (DUHP) [2].
• Based on the recommendations of the council, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute was established with the mission to marshall the resources of the university and external groups to improve the health and well-being of the residents of East Baltimore and to promote evidence-based interventions to solve urban health problems nationwide [3].
• The Urban Health Program to encourage minority enrollment at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine [4].
• METHODS: Adults with CHF > or = 50 years old from an urban health system in Indianapolis, Indiana, were administered the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (a validated CHF symptom questionnaire) at baseline [5].

Associations of Urban Health with chemical compounds

• Judith Longworth, RN, PhD, CS, FNP. Urban health care. Interview by Barbara Given [6].
• METHOD: The study was conducted across the continuum of care (primary, secondary and tertiary) in a Canadian urban Health Region involving seven health care organizations (acute, home and extended care) [7].

Gene context of Urban Health

• In March of 1995, billing records were used to identify all children born between March 1, 1992, and September 1, 1994, in one urban health center [8].
• These approaches propose the reorientation of urban health systems to include adoption of PHC for urban health programs, intersectoral collaboration and extra budgetary support [9].

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