Iowa Agri-News, January 27, 2012, Vol. 12, no. 3

Crop and livestock summaries for the state of Iowa, produced by the Iowa Department of Agriculture.

Friday Facts, January 27, 2012, Vol. 128

Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion part of the Iowa Department of Public Health produces of weekly newsletter about the Iowa WIC Program for the State of Iowa citizen.

The Update, February 27, 2012

The Update is a bi-weekly web newsletter published by the Iowa Department of Public Health's Bureau of Family Health. It is posted the second and fourth week of every month, and provides useful job resource information for departmental health care professionals, information on training opportunities, interdepartmental reports and meetings, and additional information pertinent to health care professionals.

Report on a review of selected application controls over the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Driver’s License System for the period May 2, 2011 through May 27, 2011

Report on a review of selected application controls over the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Driver’s License System for the period May 2, 2011 through May 27, 2011

EPI Update, April 27, 2012

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Estimating and explaining the effect of education and income on head and neck cancer risk : INHANCE consortium pooled analysis of 31 case-control studies from 27 countries

Low socioeconomic status has been reported to be associated with head and neck cancer risk. However, previous studies have been too small to examine the associations by cancer subsite, age, sex, global region, and calendar time, and to explain the association in terms of behavioural risk factors. Individual participant data of 23,964 cases with head and neck cancer and 31,954 controls from 31 studies in 27 countries pooled with random effects models. Overall, low education was associated with an increased risk of head and neck cancer (OR = 2·50; 95%CI 2·02- 3·09). Overall one-third of the increased risk was not explained by differences in the distribution of cigarette smoking and alcohol behaviours; and it remained elevated among never users of tobacco and non-drinkers (OR = 1·61; 95%CI 1·13 - 2·31). More of the estimated education effect was not explained by cigarette smoking and alcohol behaviours: in women than in men, in older than younger groups, in the oropharynx than in other sites, in South/Central America than in Europe/North America, and was strongest in countries with greater income inequality. Similar findings were observed for the estimated effect of low vs high household income. The lowest levels of income and educational attainment were associated with more than 2-fold increased risk of head and neck cancer, which is not entirely explained by differences in the distributions of behavioural risk factors for these cancers, and which varies across cancer sites, sexes, countries, and country income inequality levels. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Iowa Agri-News, April 27, 2012, Vol. 12, no. 10

Crop and livestock summaries for the state of Iowa, produced by the Iowa Department of Agriculture.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, July 27, 2012, Vol. 8, no. 13

A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management

Friday Facts, July 27, 2012, Vol. 148

Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion part of the Iowa Department of Public Health produces of weekly newsletter about the Iowa WIC Program for the State of Iowa citizen.

EPI Update, July 27, 2012

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Missouri River Flood Recovery, January 27, 2012 Vol. 1, no. 5

The Missouri River Flood Recovery newsletter is published by the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division in cooperation with members of the Missouri River Recovery Coordination Task Force.