Evaluating the Sustainability of School-Based Health Centers.

Background: The United States is facing a surge in the number of school-based health centers (SBHCs) owing to their success in delivering positive health outcomes and increasing access to care. To preserve this success, experts have developed frameworks for creating sustainable SBHCs; however, little research has affirmed or added to these models.

Objectives: This research seeks to analyze elements of sustainability in a case study of three SBHCs in San Diego, California, with the purpose of creating a research-based framework of SBHC sustainability to supplement expertly derived models.

Small-molecule screen identifies reactive oxygen species as key regulators of neutrophil chemotaxis.

Neutrophil chemotaxis plays an essential role in innate immunity, but the underlying cellular mechanism is still not fully characterized. Here, using a small-molecule functional screening, we identified NADPH oxidase-dependent reactive oxygen species as key regulators of neutrophil chemotactic migration. Neutrophils with pharmacologically inhibited oxidase, or isolated from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) patients and mice, formed more frequent multiple pseudopodia and lost their directionality as they migrated up a chemoattractant concentration gradient.

Family-based weight management with Latino mothers and children.

Purpose: This paper aims to design a culturally appropriate weight management intervention for high-risk Latino families and to examine the feasibility of recruiting program participants.

Design And Methods: A descriptive design using qualitative and quantitative data collected during preliminary phases of an ongoing intervention study.

Results: From the preliminary works, a curriculum was revised for Latino families who have overweight children.

Incorporating the experiences of youth with traumatic injury into the training of health professionals.

Youth violence and related injury continue to be a serious public health problem and are identified as a major priority on the national health care agenda. Despite recommendations by numerous professional organizations to enhance healthcare professionals' roles in youth violence prevention efforts, there has been little documentation of effective training. To address this gap, the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics (UCSD) partnered with San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare's Institute for Injury & Violence Prevention Think First San Diego in a novel program.

Program self-evaluation: the evolution of an injury prevention foundation.

Object: Injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US. The authors provide a brief discussion of a national injury prevention foundation's self-evaluation of its efforts to decrease the incidence of traumatic injuries through educational programs, legislative efforts, and community programming.

Methods: The authors performed a literature review of evaluation studies and activities of the Think First National Injury Prevention Foundation accomplished between 1986 and 2002 and summarized their findings.