OBJECTIVE To provide a comprehensive review of interventions and policies aimed at
reducing youth cigarette smoking in the United States, including strategies that have …

Background In an influenza pandemic, the benefit of vaccines and antiviral medications will
be constrained by limitations on supplies and effectiveness. Non-pharmaceutical public …

Policymakers are increasingly seeking to determine whether the federal government's
recent investments in public health preparedness have left the public health system better …

This investigation estimates the impact of ten modifiable health risk behaviors and measures
and their impact on health care expenditures, controlling for other measured risk and …

We estimate a generalized linear model to examine adult and teenage cigarette demand.
Our analysis focuses on the extent to which exice taxes and regulations restricting smoking …

Optically sampled analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) combine optical sampling with
electronic quantization to enhance the performance of electronic ADCs. In this paper, we …

As much as possible, PHEP should be integrated with and expand upon day-to-day public
health practices and build upon existing systems, not developed de novo. PHEP should also …

We estimate the lifetime, discounted costs that smokers and drinkers impose on others
through collectively financed health insurance, pensions, disability insurance, group life …

Belief in the efficacy of good health habits prompted Joseph Califano, at the time Secretary
of Health and Human Services, to say in the 1979 Surgeon General's report:" A wealth of …

Purpose. To assess the relationship between modifiable health risks and total health care
expenditures for a large employee group. Design. Risk data were collected through …