Years of potential life lost among Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Bexar County

While numerous studies have found similar mortality rates for Hispanics compared to non-Hispanic whites, surprisingly little is known about years of potential life lost (YPLL) differentials in mortality. The primary purpose of this paper is to quantify the effect that YPLL has on Hispanics in order to determine if YPLL differs between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites. Using YPLL may bring attention to dissimilarities that are often obscured through traditional measures. Bexar County 2000-2004 data from the Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics Unit was analyzed for the descriptive analysis and 2003 Bexar County Multiple Cause Death data was analyzed for the regression analysis. The multiple regression models were used to examine Hispanic and non-Hispanic white differences in years of potential life lost (YPLL) before age 75 from all-causes of death. For this analysis, YPLL was regressed on ethnicity, education level and marital status for men and women. The descriptive analysis found YPLL from all-causes was greater among non-Hispanic whites than Hispanics. However, the regression analysis found Hispanics lost more year of potential from all-causes of death compared to non-Hispanic whites. This indicates that the effect of ethnicity on YPLL differs for different methods of analysis. Future research efforts should keep in mind the method of analysis when using YPLL. Understanding differences in mortality among Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites is important for targeting future health policies and research to aid in eliminating Hispanic health disparities. ^

Students' knowledge of symptoms and risk factors of potential life-threatening medical conditions

In order to assess medical students' knowledge of Basic Life Support (BLS) principles, we defined a minimal knowledge (MK) of three life-threatening medical conditions that should be universally known: cardiac arrest, heart attack and stroke, and compared the results with those of laypersons.

Restoring mortality as a measure of community health

In the last several decades traditional community health indicators have become ambiguous and lost some of their relevance. During this same period national and international health agencies adopted new expanded definitions of Health that include underlying social determinants. These two influences are responsible for a proliferation of new health indicators and many are constructed from a combination of older mortality measures and available information on morbidity. Problems inherent in attempting to combine these sources of information have produced a situation where some indicators are difficult to calculate at the national level and may not function at all for small communities. What is needed is a relevant measure of the burden of ill health appropriate for smaller populations that is accessible to local health planners. ^ Death records are still the best available population health information. In Europe the burden of health problems is often portrayed using 'premature' death. Health agencies in the United States have moved to adopt Years of Potential Life Lost. Both these regions are also developing systems of 'avoidable' or 'preventable' death as health indicators. This research proposes a method combining these methodologies to produce a relevant indicator portraying the burden of ill health in communities. ^

Monograph use at an academic health sciences library: the first three years of shelf life

Objective: To study the circulation of monographs during the first three years of shelf life at an academic health sciences library.

Seventy years of Irish life, being anecdotes and reminiscences,

Mode of access: Internet.

Five years of my life, 1894-1899,

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller.

Mode of access: Internet.

Forty-four years of the life of a hunter;

Mode of access: Internet.

The first years of the life of the redeemed after death; a new unfolding in theology and in the Christian life and destiny here and hereafter.

Mode of access: Internet.

Twenty years of my life /

Mode of access: Internet.

Eight years of his life a blank : a story of the pioneer days of South Dakota : a novel /

Frontispiece.

The first 20 years of my life /

Imperfect: p.267-268 wanting.

Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller : in forty-seven letters to a friend /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 26631.1.

Sixty years of the life of Jeremy Levis.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms (n.d.) (American Culture Series, Reel 151.1)