Issue 2/2005
Content (19 Articles)
Shortchanged? An assessment of chronic disease programming in major US city health departments
Mari Georgeson, Lorna E. Thorpe, Mario Merlino, Thomas R. Frieden, Jonathan E. Fielding
Disparities by race in heat-related mortality in four US cities: The role of air conditioning prevalence
Marie S. O’Neill, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz
Increasing breastfeeding rates in New York City, 1980–2000
Melanie Besculides, Karine Grigoryan, Fabienne Laraque
Awareness of heart attack symptoms and lifesaving actions among New York city area residents
Janice M. Barnhart, Oshra Cohen, Harvey M. Kramer, Catherine M. Wilkins, Judith Wylie-Rosett
Use of a patient navigator to increase colorectal cancer screening in an urban neighborhood health clinic
Lina Jandorf, Yahaira Gutierrez, Jaime Lopez, Jennifer Christie, Steven H. Itzkowitz
Mortality and socioeconomic deprivation in census tracts of an urban setting in Southern Europe
M. Felícitas Domínguez-Berjón, Carme Borrell, Rosario López, Vicente Pastor
Poverty-related stressors and HIV/AIDS transmission risks in two South African communities
Seth C. Kalichman, Leickness C. Simbayi, Sean Jooste, Chauncey Cherry, Demetria Cain
Illicit opioid use in Canada: Comparing social, health, and drug use characteristics of untreated users in five cities (OPICAN study)
Benedikt Fischer, Jürgen Rehm, Suzanne Brissette, Serge Brochu, Julie Bruneau, Nady El-Guebaly, Lina Noël, Mark Tyndall, Cameron Wild, Phil Mun, Dolly Baliunas
A description of a peer-run supervised injection site for injection drug users
Thomas Kerr, Megan Oleson, Mark W. Tyndall, Julio Montaner, Evan Wood
Potential uptake and correlates of willingness to use a supervised smoking facility for noninjection illicit drug use
Courtney L. C. Collins, Thomas Kerr, Laura M. Kuyper, Kathy Li, Mark W. Tyndall, David C. Marsh, Julio S. Montaner, Evan Wood
Acupuncture for substance abuse treatment in the downtown eastside of Vancouver
Patricia A. Janssen, Louise C. Demorest, Elizabeth M. Whynot
Attitudes of emergency medical service providers toward naloxone distribution programs
Karin E. Tobin, Wade R. Gaasch, Carla Clarke, Ellen MacKenzie, Carl A. Latkin
Naloxone distribution and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training for injection drug users to prevent heroin overdose death: A pilot intervention study
Karen H. Seal, Robert Thawley, Lauren Gee, Joshua Bamberger, Alex H. Kral, Dan Ciccarone, Moher Downing, Brian R. Edlin
Correlates of HIV infection among incarcerated women: Implications for improving detection of HIV infection
Frederick L. Altice, Adrian Marinovich, Kaveh Khoshnood, Kim M. Blankenship, Sandra A. Springer, Peter A. Selwyn
The Miami, Florida, Young Men’s Survey: HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among urban young men who have sex with men who have ever runaway
Marlene LaLota, Bonnie W. Kwan, Melinda Waters, Leticia E. Hernandez, Thomas M. Liberti
Disseminated coccidioidomycosis in an immunocompetent person living in New York City
Amy Chuang, Reeni Thomas, Robert S. Hoffman