Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Environmental supports for walking/biking and traffic safety: income and ethnicity disparities.
The present study investigates the influence of income, ethnicity, and built environmental characteristics on the percentages of workers who walk/bike as well as on pedestrian/cyclist crash rates. Furthermore, income and ethnicity disparities are also explored. ⋯ Environmental designs that both encourage walking/biking trips and generate more safety threats should attract more attention from policy makers. Policies should also be more devoted to enhancing the mobility and health for areas with high poverty rates.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
EditorialCommunities putting prevention to work: local evaluation of community-based strategies designed to make healthy living easier.
This introduction is an overview of the articles presented in this supplement that describe implementation and evaluation activities conducted as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative. CPPW was one of the largest federal investments ever to combat chronic diseases in the United States. ⋯ The articles included in this supplement describe implementation and evaluation efforts of strategies implemented as part of CPPW by local awardees. This supplement is intended to guide the evidence base for public health interventions on the basis of jurisdiction-wide policy and environmental-level improvements and to encourage rigorous evaluation of the public health interventions.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2014
Level of disability, multi-morbidity and breast cancer screening: does severity matter?
Women with disability may be less likely screened for breast cancer. Research is limited on the extent to which level of disability and multi-morbidity influence screening. ⋯ Our findings suggest that severe levels of disability and morbidity are associated with low likelihoods of breast cancer screening.