Nutritionally vulnerable women are more apt to give birth to low birth weight, small for gestational babies who have increased medical complications and higher risk of mortality. Participating in the Special Supplemental ...

As ecological niche modeling (ENM) evolves as a tool in epidemiology and public health, refinement of occurrence data , and selection of the most appropriate and informative environmental data sets becomes increasingly ...

Rabies is a fatal, encephalitic disease caused by numerous variants of a lyssavirus to which all mammals are susceptible. In the United States, domestic animal rabies prevention and control is subjective to individual ...

Family meals and meals with caregivers can be sources of social support. Current literature indicates that social support is important for physical and psychological health and well-being. There has been no published ...

Background: Parks are key community assets for promoting physical activity, especially in low income areas where other accessible, low cost resources may not be available. However, some evidence suggests these integral ...

In spite of the improvement of nutrition education and the realization of the importance of healthy dietary patterns, the prevalence of unhealthy dietary patterns is still increasing among vulnerable groups (e.g. women and ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have realized the need for collaboration between medicine and public health. Many initiatives have been started to examine the benefits ...

Abstract: Background: West Nile virus (WNV) is an arboviral disease that has caused an estimated 29,624 clinical illnesses and 1,161 deaths in the United States since its emergence in 1999. A national WNV surveillance ...

Nearly fifteen percent of households in the United States experienced food insecurity in 2008 and 2009 (one-third of which experienced low food security). Malnourishment resulting from food insecurity may lead to developmental ...

After-school programs are considered to have great potential to provide opportunities for increasing physical activity. One factor that may influence the success of a physical activity intervention is program implementation. ...