Sharing Overdose Data Across State Agencies to Inform Public Health Strategies: A Case Study.

Data sharing and analysis are important components of coordinated and cost-effective public health strategies. However, legal and policy barriers have made data from different agencies difficult to share and analyze for policy development. To address a rise in overdose deaths, Maryland used an innovative and focused approach to bring together data on overdose decedents across multiple agencies.

Hypertension in Bo, Sierra Leone.

Objective: To identify the prevalence of hypertension among adults in Bo, Sierra Leone.

Design: Hypertension data were extracted from outpatient clinic records.

Setting: Mercy Hospital in urban Bo, Sierra Leone.

Sedentary activity associated with metabolic syndrome independent of physical activity.

Objective: This study examined the association between objectively measured sedentary activity and metabolic syndrome among older adults.

Research Design And Methods: Data were from 1,367 men and women, aged ≥ 60 years who participated in the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Sedentary time during waking hours was measured by an accelerometer (<100 counts per minute).

Predictors of compliance with scheduled surgery in rural Guatemala.

A non-governmental organization that helps low-income, rural, indigenous Guatemalans to have free or low-cost surgical care found that fewer than 60% of their patients kept their surgical appointments. The objective of this study was to identify the factors that predict compliance with scheduled surgery. All 690 surgical candidates screened by this organization between April 2008 and March 2009 and scheduled for surgery by August 2009 were included in this analysis.