What does a county health department mean to you?

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Michigan health survey: Genesee County model cities area special study (February 1973) /

Survey conducted by the Center for Health Statistics of the Michigan Department of Public Health.

Bayesian versus frequentist statistical inference for investi gating a one-off cancer cluster reported to a health department

Background The problem of silent multiple comparisons is one of the most difficult statistical problems faced by scientists. It is a particular problem for investigating a one-off cancer cluster reported to a health department because any one of hundreds, or possibly thousands, of neighbourhoods, schools, or workplaces could have reported a cluster, which could have been for any one of several types of cancer or any one of several time periods. Methods This paper contrasts the frequentist approach with a Bayesian approach for dealing with silent multiple comparisons in the context of a one-off cluster reported to a health department. Two published cluster investigations were re-analysed using the Dunn-Sidak method to adjust frequentist p-values and confidence intervals for silent multiple comparisons. Bayesian methods were based on the Gamma distribution. Results Bayesian analysis with non-informative priors produced results similar to the frequentist analysis, and suggested that both clusters represented a statistical excess. In the frequentist framework, the statistical significance of both clusters was extremely sensitive to the number of silent multiple comparisons, which can only ever be a subjective "guesstimate". The Bayesian approach is also subjective: whether there is an apparent statistical excess depends on the specified prior. Conclusion In cluster investigations, the frequentist approach is just as subjective as the Bayesian approach, but the Bayesian approach is less ambitious in that it treats the analysis as a synthesis of data and personal judgements (possibly poor ones), rather than objective reality. Bayesian analysis is (arguably) a useful tool to support complicated decision-making, because it makes the uncertainty associated with silent multiple comparisons explicit.

Municipal health department practice for the year 1923, based upon surveys of the 100 largest cities in the United States

At head of title: Treasury Department. United States Public Health Service ...

County Health statistical profiles : state planning and development region 5, Genesee, Lapeer, Shiawassee /

Mode of access: Internet.

Community water supply well shooting/blasting near Hillcrest Subdivision, Lake County, Illinois.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a summary of literature research on the use of well "shooting" or blasting technology in Northern Illinois. Water well shooting or blasting is done to increase water yield from a sandstone aquifer for a particular water supply well ... The Lake County Health Department (LCHD) detected a chemical, vinyl chloride -- from a family of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) -- in some private wells in the unincorporated Hillcrest Subdivision near Wauconda, through routine well testing done in the fall of 2003. The LCHD presented these findings to the public at a January 13, 2004 meeting. The concern was raised at the public meeting that recent subsurface water well "shooting" or blasting techniques, performed in the deep sandstone aquifer (800 to 1,000 feet below ground surface), in the borehole of a community water supply (CWS) well in the area, might have impacted the shallow aquifer in such a way as to contribute to private well contamination under investigation in the Hillcrest Subdivision.

The investigation of the administration of the Cook County Health and Hospitals Governing Commission /

Prepared for the Auditor General to be presented to the Legislative Audit Commission and members of the General Assembly.

The administration of the Hamilton County Welfare Department, prepared for the Board of County Commissioners, Hamilton County, Ohio.

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A directory of the physicians, dentists and druggists of Cincinnati, Covington, Newport, Dayton, Bellevue, and Ludlow : classified according to profession or business, and names arranged, first, in alphabetical order, and, second, according to street or locality ; to which is added lists of medical colleges, hospitals, with names of officers and medical staff of each ; health department, etc., and other valuable information.

Directory section is not illustrated. Illustrated ads for Presbyterian Hospital and Woman's Medical College, Eclectic Medical Institute, and Densmore Typewriter.

Miami-Dade Health Department to Move to Florida International University , Model Clinic to Work with Medical, Public Health and Nursing Faculty

Press Release from Florida International University 's Office of Media Relations on the Miami-Dade Health Department's agreement with Florida International University to relocate its department to Florida International University 's University Park campus.

Análise socioambiental da cidade de Juazeiro do Norte: subsídios para a construção da Agenda 21 local

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

A study of the relationship of support systems and adolescent pregnancy outcomes in an adolescent family life project

This study analyzed the relationship of family support systems and adolescent pregnancy outcomes. The population for the study was 390 adolescents who had attended the Marion County Health Department Adolescent Family Life Project in Indianapolis, Indiana during a two-year period.^ The study is unique in that it afforded the opportunity to compare adolescent pregnancy-related characteristics, of white and non-white adolescents in the same study.^ The pregnancy outcomes studied were: Infant birthweight, school attendance, and pregnancy recidivism.^ Significant results were found in the analysis that supported other research in regard to factors that are associated with school attendance when family support, adolescent's age, and ethnicity were controlled. Infant birthweight and repeat pregnancy outcome relationships were not found to have any consistently significant relationship with independent variables anticipated to be associated. However, the comparisons of infant birthweight among the adolescents with, and without, family support, by ethnicity resulted in some interesting findings. Repeat pregnancy proved an enigma, in that there seemed to be almost no variables in this study that were associated with the adolescent having a repeat pregnancy.^ Familial support in this study seemed to be of less importance as a factor in adolescent pregnancy outcomes than was ethnicity. The non-white adolescents in this study had a better record for remaining in school, both those non-white adolescents who lived with parents, and those who did not live with parents. More low birthweight occurred in the non-white adolescent, both those adolescents who lived with parents, and those who did not live with parents. Repeat pregnancy occurred more in the non-white adolescent whether she lived with parents, or did not live with parents. ^

Waterborne pathogens.

Lake Notes ... is a series of publications produced by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency about issues confronting Illinois' lake resources. The objective of these publications is to provide lake and watershed residents with a greater understanding of environmental cause-and-effect relationships, and actions we all can take to protect our lakes.--p. [4].