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Annotation: This website provides information about public health issues that affect both Mexico and the United States. The site offers information about connections between Mexico and the United States and about health conditions of concern to both the United States and Mexico (including vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, vector-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases, illnesses spread through food and water, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, pandemic influenza and other global health emergencies, and chronic health conditions) as well as about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's role in the partnership between the United States and Mexico. Information about the U.S.-Mexico border region and other interesting facts is also included.

Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: https://www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/forms/contact-us.html Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: AIDS, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, HIV, Infectious diseases, Influenza, International health, Mexico, Prevention, Public health, Tuberculosis, Vaccines

Annotation: This report compiles 2010 national surveillance data on infectious disease in single race Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders. Contents include background information and data sources, overviews, snapshots, discussion, and references on tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV and AIDS.

Contact: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp Available from the website.

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Keywords: AIDS, Asian Americans, Communicable diseases, Data sources, Epidemiology, HIV, Hawaiians, Hepatitis, Mortality, Pacific Americans, Pacific Islanders, Population surveillance, Sexually transmitted diseases, Testing, Trends, Tuberculosis

Annotation: This report examines trends for 17 health status indicators (HSIs), developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process, to facilitate the comparison of health status measures at national, state, and local levels. The report is divided into the following sections: abstract, introduction, findings, conclusions, methods, data sources, and references. Topics include infant mortality, low birthweight, prenatal care, births to adolescents, mortality rates, tuberculosis and syphilis case rates, poverty, air quality, and racial and ethnic disparity. The report is heavily illustrated with charts, tables, and graphs.

Contact: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 5419, Hyattsville, MD 20782, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 Fax: (301) 458-4020 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs Available at no charge; also available from the website. Document Number: DHHS (PHS) 2002-1237.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescent pregnancy, Ethnic factors, Health status, Low birthweight, Mortality rates, Poverty, Prenatal care, Racial factors, Statistics, Surveys, Syphilis, Trends, Tuberculosis

Annotation: This book, the fifth in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) anthology series, presents what the RWJF does, why it does it, and what has it learned from its experience in its work to improve the health and health care of the American people. The first part describes RWJF funded national programs, that are active or recently ended, on nursing home visitation programs; tuberculosis challenges; Native American health; service credit banking; long-term care choice; and the health policy fellowships program. Part two outlines smaller, single site programs; one for substance abusing adolescents, and the publication of "On Doctoring", provided free to every entering medical student. Part three looks back at the RWJF AIDS awareness programs. Finally, part four describes the RWJF program-related investments and its grantmaking in New Jersey.

Contact: Jossey-Bass Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Telephone: (201) 748-6000 Contact Phone: (415) 433-1740 Fax: (201) 748-6088 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.JosseyBass.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-7879-5946-4.

Keywords: AIDS, Access to health care, Adolescents, American Indians, National programs, Nursing homes, Philanthropy, Program descriptions, Substance abuse, Tuberculosis

Annotation: This report discusses the British School Health Service from 1908 through1957, services to children with developmental disabilities from 1908-1957, medical inspection and treatment for 1956-57, fifty years of school dentistry, the British School Dental Service for 1956-57, growth and nutrition, periodic medical inspection, differing findings at periodic medical inspections, incidence of tonsillectomy in children, visual defects, defective hearing, developments for children with developmental disabilities, educationally sub-normal children, the British Child Guidance Service, tuberculosis in the school, other infectious diseases and school health, food poisoning, accidents in childhood, and health education.

Keywords: Child guidance clinics, Children with developmental disabilities, Communicable diseases, Dental care, Food poisoning, Great Britain, Health education, Hearing disorders, Mental retardation, Oral health, Sanitation, School health services, Tonsillectomy, Tuberculosis, Vision disorders

Annotation: This report provides a summary of the work of the committee and discusses children with developmental disabilities under the topics of the deaf and hard of hearing, visually handicapped, children with developmental disabilities, tuberculosis, heart disease, intestinal parasites, mental health, mental retardation, and vocational adjustment.

Keywords: Blindness, Child welfare, Children with developmental disabilities, Conferences, Deafness, Heart diseases, Mental health, Mental retardation, Parasitic diseases, Tuberculosis, United States, Vocational education, Vocational rehabilitation