“Barker's hypothesis” emerged almost 25 years ago from epidemiological studies of birth and
death records that revealed a high geographic correlation between rates of infant mortality …

… In this Foreword I offer a brief and highly selective historical analysis of topics in platelet
history, with the hope of providing both a sense of the sweep of intellectual development in the …

… high-quality primary health care an essential feature of their national health systems.
Following this declaration, in 1981 WHO adopted a global strategy for achieving health for all by …

… In the absence of a specific vaccine and antiviral agents, the prevention and control of Ebola
virus disease uniquely depend on long-established public health interventions discussed in …

A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence
biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease. Over …

… and evolved into the Council on Environmental Health; 2) observations made in the 1980s …
disease—work that led to the hypothesis of the developmental origins of health and disease; 3…

… estimate the associated change in respiratory disease rates (a health impact) that could be
expected from that change in air quality. The inclusion of health in the EIA process has been …

EDITORIAL: A brief history Page 1 EDITORIAL This is my valedictory editorial and, hopefully,
I will be forgiven for offering a brief historical perspective on the development of the journal …

… health surveys and continued through 2004 in NHANES. This article provides a general
history … surveillance efforts for periodontal disease from the mid-1950s to 2005. It also provides …

… requested the Surgeon General to have prepared, as one chapter in the compilation, a
brief history of the bacteriological work of the Public Health Service and Medical Director AM …