State Library Update, July 2010, Vol.8, no. 3

Quarterly update for State Library patrons.

Kuoleman ja elämän sanoja : Eeva Uotilan (8.3.1941-9.9.1995) muistolle

Tuoni ; Viron tõbi 'tauti' ; tainio, taintua ; oinas, uuhi ; seimi, soimi ; loimi, työ

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, October 8, 2010

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities

EPI Update, October 8, 2010

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

State Library Update, November 2010, Vol.8, no. 4

Quarterly update for State Library patrons.

Contribution of ultrasonographic examination to the prenatal detection of trisomy 21: experience from 19 European registers.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of ultrasound scanning to the prenatal detection of trisomy 21 in a large unselected European population. Data from 19 congenital malformation registers in 11 European countries were included. The prenatal ultrasound screening programs in the countries ranged from no routine screening to three ultrasound investigations per patient. Routine serum screening was offered in four of the 11 countries and routine screening on the basis of maternal age amniocentesis in all. The results show that overall 53% of cases of trisomy 21 were detected prenatally with a range from 3% in Lithuania to 88% in Paris. Ninety-eight percent of women whose babies were diagnosed before 24 weeks gestation chose to terminate the pregnancy. Centres/countries that offer serum screening do not have a significantly higher detection rate of trisomy 21 when compared to those that offer maternal age amniocentesis and anomaly scanning only. Fifty percent of trisomy 21 cases were born to women aged 35 years or more. In conclusions, second trimester ultrasound plays an important role in the prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21. Of those cases prenatally diagnosed, 64% of cases in women <35 years and 36% of those in women >or=35 years were detected because of an ultrasound finding. Ultrasound soft markers accounted for 84% of the scan diagnoses. There is evidence of increasing maternal age across Europe with 50% of cases of trisomy 21 born to women aged 35 years or more.

Customer Focus Newsletter, January-February, 2011, Vol. 8, no.1

A bi-monthly bulletin to keep the department/agency management teams of state government better informed. We hope to consolidate most of the service update messages we send throughout the month and keep you updated about the work of the Customer Councils. If yours is one of the many departments who participated in the second annual DAS customer satisfaction survey recently, we thank you for taking the time to give us this important feedback. We look forward to sharing survey results with you, and pledge to consider responses carefully as we work to determine benchmarks and set future priorities.

Changes in leisure time and occupational physical activity over 8 years: The Cornellà health Interview Survey Follow-Up Study

Aim: To describe changes in leisure time and occupational physical activity status in an urban Mediterranean population-based cohort, and to evaluate sociodemographic, health-related and lifestyle correlates of such changes. Methods: Data for this study come from the Cornellè Health Interview Survey Follow-Up Study, a prospective cohort study of a representative sample (n¿=¿2500) of the population. Participants in the analysis reported here include 1246 subjects (567 men and 679 women) who had complete data on physical activity at the 1994 baseline survey and at the 2002 follow-up. We fitted Breslow-Cox regression models to assess the association between correlates of interest and changes in physical activity. Results: Regarding leisure time physical activity, 61.6% of cohort members with ¿sedentary¿ habits in 1994 changed their status to ¿light/moderate¿ physical activity in 2002, and 70% who had ¿light/moderate¿ habits in 1994 did not change their activity level. Regarding occupational physical activity, 74.4% of cohort members who were ¿active¿ did not change their level of activity, and 64.3% of participants with ¿sedentary¿ habits in 1994 changed to ¿active¿ occupational physical activity. No clear correlates of change in physical activity were identified in multivariate analyses. Conclusion: While changes in physical activity are evident in this population-based cohort, no clear determinants of such changes were recognised. Further longitudinal studies including other potential individual and contextual determinants are needed to better understand determinants of changes in physical activity at the population level.

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Cette contribution a pour objectif d'analyser le degré d'implémentation des systèmes d'indicateurs dans les établissements scolaires. Elle cherche aussi à savoir si les indicateurs retenus intègrent les préoccupations et les acquis de la recherche, et singulièrement de la recherche en économie de l'éducation, en matière de déterminants de la performance scolaire. Autrement dit, si les directions d'établissements utilisent des systèmes d'indicateurs, ces systèmes permettent-ils de suivre des variables dont la littérature a démontré ou tend à montrer l'influence sur la performance scolaire ? Autrement dit encore, y a-t-il une capitalisation des variables potentiellement explicatives de la performance scolaire dans les indicateurs utilisés pour le pilotage des établissements scolaires ?