The global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) continues to grow in
part due to better outcomes in other major diseases and in part because a substantial …

Problem: Health-risk behaviors contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality
among youth and adults in the United States. In addition, significant health disparities exist …

Population health decision makers must consider complex relationships between multiple
concepts measured with differential accuracy from heterogeneous data sources. Population …

Problem: Priority health-risk behaviors contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and
mortality among youth and adults. Population-based data on these behaviors at the national …

Sleep deprivation (SD) is a common condition and an important health concern. In addition
to metabolic and cardiovascular risks, SD associates with decreases in cognitive …

Local-level data on the health of populations are important to inform and drive effective and
efficient actions to improve health, but such data are often expensive to collect and thus rare …

Patient activation is an important aspect of self-management for adults with chronic non
cancerous health conditions (CHC). However, there is limited evidence about which …

People with psychiatric disorders are excluded from medical research to an unknown
degree with unknown effects. We examined the prevalence of reported psychiatric exclusion …

En la actualidad, la vigilancia epidemiológica sigue centrada, en España, en las
enfermedades transmisibles incluidas en la lista de enfermedades de declaración …

In 2006, the Massachusetts healthcare reform was introduced to mandate health insurance,
extend eligibility of publicly subsidised health insurance, improve quality and access to care …