Infant mortality rate (IMR) serves as a summary measure of the health of a nation's
population. The US IMR has declined over the past several decades (to 6.85 per 1000 in …

Abstract Background The United States (US) suffers from high infant mortality (IM) rates and
there are significant racial/ethnic differences in these rates. Prior studies on the environment …

Quantification of empirical relationships between ecosystem health and human well-being is
uncommon at broad spatial scales. We used public data for Virginia (USA) counties to …

We use a competing risk model to analyze environmental determinants of child mortality
using the 1992 China National Health Survey, which collects information on cause of death …

Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population
health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a …

Future land-use development has the potential to profoundly affect the health of aquatic
ecosystems in the coming decades. We developed regression models predicting the loss of …

In 2003, eighty-three percent of Americans lived in metropolitan areas, and considerable
population increases are predicted within the next 50 years. Nowhere are the environmental …

In Maryland, US, an interim framework has recentlybeen developed for using biologically
based thresholds, orbiocriteria', to assess the health of nontidal streams statewide at …

The role of water as a carrier of microbes that are disease-causing in humans is often
overlooked with diseases being vastly under-reported. Some waterborne diseases, such as …

of Natural Resources' Maryland Biological Stream Survey (MBSS) under the direction of Dr.
Ronald Klauda and Mr. Paul Kazyak of the Monitoring and Non-Tidal Assessment Division …