Articles: mortality.
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Comparative Study
Comparison of mortality between villages with and without Primary Health Care workers in Upper River Division, The Gambia.
Health services utilization was analysed in a rural area of the The Gambia. In general, health workers were consulted frequently. ⋯ The relationship between cause specific mortality and the utilization of health services is discussed. Childhood mortality was similar in villages with or without a primary health care worker at the time of the study.
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Historical Article
The importance of social intervention in England's mortality decline: the evidence reviewed.
This paper examines the first phase of England's mortality decline, which commenced in the middle of the eighteenth century, and proceeded fitfully down to the end of the nineteenth. It finds that recent research in population history has weakened the explanation known as the McKeown thesis, but that the alternative synthesis, developed by Szreter, does not stand up well to a scrutiny of the evidence on infant mortality and morbidity. ⋯ C. Riley for the second half of the nineteenth century.
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This article describes the problem of firearm deaths among Canadians aged 15-24 years. It is based on data obtained from Statistics Canada, the Metropolitan Toronto Police Department, and the Canadian Department of Justice. ⋯ Some 23% of Canadian homes contain a firearm; the average number of firearms per home is 2.67. Medical and public health professionals are urged to work toward prevention by educating patients and families about the risks of a firearm in the home and by supporting legislation to decrease the availability of firearms to young people.