Neighborhood Environment and Self-Rated Health Among Urban Older Adults.

Unlabelled: This study examines associations between neighborhood environment and self-rated health (SRH) among urban older adults. We selected 217 individuals aged 65+ living in a de-industrialized Midwestern city who answered questions on the 2009 Speak to Your Health survey. The relationship between neighborhood environment and SRH was analyzed using regression models.

A new approach to IT security.

More than 60 percent of healthcare data breaches occur due to the loss, theft, or misuse of portable devices. Using a common application programming interface across applications and platforms to build and enforce object-level controls in information itself can help providers better protect ePHI and other types of digital data. Information objects can be engineered to be decrypted only when a legitimate user on a known device using an approved application opens them, and to control what the user can do with the information.