journal of preventive medicine

(Children's Hospital Boston) An article to be published online Nov. 10 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reviews research about and analyzes available data around firearm injuries and prevention, and argues the importance of including firearm safety as part of physician-patient preventive care conversations.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Healthy People 2020 is an ambitious, science-based, 10-year agenda for improving the health of all Americans.

Education for Health, an educational roadmap to achieve the Healthy People 2020 goals, provides a vehicle for promoting the discussion and progress that will be needed to achieve an integrated, seamless approach to education for health for the American public and health professionals.

The American Journal of Preventive Medicine features a series of articles that examine public-health educational needs and goals.

(Duke University Medical Center) Most doctors are spending a good deal of time counseling their patients about diet and weight loss, but for the most part, it isn't making any difference, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is made up of unhealthy cardiovascular disease risk factors including abdominal obesity, high levels of triglycerides, low level of HDL-cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, and elevated fasting glucose level as defined by AHA/NHLB.

According NHANES 1999�, approximately 36 percent of the US adult population has MetS. In a new study in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that daily volume of physical activity is related to MetS.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) In a study published in the March 2010 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, found that when primary care clinicians and community counselors collaborated to offer free counseling services to patients, there was an overwhelming positive response.

Yet, when the same services were offered at a cost to the patient, there was a significant drop in participation.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Investigators from the US Air Force Academy and US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine Epidemiology Consult Service capitalized on a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights about the natural behavior of the nH1N1 virus, including shedding patterns, during a recent large-scale outbreak at the US Air Force Academy.

Results are reported in an article published online on Oct. 20, 2009, by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

It is the first published study of its kind.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) HIV prevalence among African-Americans is 10 times greater than the prevalence among whites.

This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions of dollars.

In the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examine factors responsible for the stark racial disparities in HIV infection in the US and the now concentrated epidemic among African-Americans.

(Golin/Harris International) A reminder program aimed at screening for breast cancer when it is most treatable boosted mammography rates by more than 17 percentage points, according to a new study by Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The program used electronic health records to identify women who would soon be due for a mammogram and reached out via postcards, automated voice messages and personal phone calls.