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Injury Mortality In Texas And The Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1980-1998, Jan M. H. Risser, Carrie Shapiro, William Spears

Population and Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Aims: To compare age-adjusted injury mortality rates between Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) Hispanics, Texas Hispanics and Texas Whites. Methods: Using data from the Texas Department of Health, we examined deaths from injuries including: motor vehicle accidents, homicide, and suicide from 1980 through 1998. Results: Injury deaths are the fourth leading cause of death in Texas. Mortality rates for all-cause injuries among LRGV Hispanics were 25% lower than rates among Texas Whites. Traffic accident mortality were quite similar among the study groups. From 1980, the average mortality from traffic accidents per 100,000 persons was 21.9 among Whites and 27.2 among …

Vital Signs, Fall 2001, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twenty three page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

Flight Physician - September, 2001, Civil Aviation Medical Association

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A fourteen page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

Curry, Donna Miles Interview For The Miami Valley College Of Nursing And Health Oral History Project, Carol Holdcraft, Donna M. Curry

Wright State University - Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health Oral History Project

Carol Holdcraft interviewed Donna Miles Curry on May 9, 2001 about the founding of Wright State University College of Nursing and Health. In the interview Dr. Curry discusses her career and her decision to come to Wright State as a founding faculty member for the College of Nursing and Health.

Ohio Academy Of Medical History Annual Meeting Program, April 28, 2001, Ohio Academy Of Medical History

Annual Conference Programs

This four page program is from the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Medical History held on April 28, 2001 in Granville, Ohio. The program details the events and presentations of the meeting.

Treatment Of Diabetes, John H.L. Playfair, Khalid M. Elased, Joseph B. De Souza

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Publications

The present invention provides methods for using a killed malaria parasite or an extract thereof in the treatment of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM).

Vital Signs, Spring 2001, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twenty-one page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes feature articles, student notes, and more.

Flight Physician - March, 2001, Civil Aviation Medical Association

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A seventeen page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

Client Preferences And Acceptability For Medical Abortion And Mva As Early Pregnancy Termination Method In Northwest Ethiopia, Mulatu A. Woldetsadik, Tegbar Y. Sendekie, Mary T. White, Desaleng T. Zegeye

Population and Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Background

Increasing access to safe abortion services is the most effective way of preventing the burden of unsafe abortion, which is achieved by increasing safe choices for pregnancy termination. Medical abortion for termination of early abortion is said to safe, effective, and acceptable to women in several countries. In Ethiopia, however, medical methods have, until recently, never been used. For this reason it is important to assess women's preferences and the acceptability of medical abortion and manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) in the early first trimester pregnancy termination and factors affecting acceptability of medical and MVA abortion services.

Methods

A prospective …

Vital Signs, Winter 2001, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twenty-three page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes feature articles, a student profile, faculty notes, and more.