Background: Currently there is a lot of debate about the advantages and disadvantages of
for-profit health care delivery. We examined staffing ratios for direct-care and support staff in …

Although public-health-based violence-prevention trials have been successful in a variety of
high-risk settings, no study has addressed the prevention of genocide, a form of population-…

… Adler Address correspondence to Reva N. Adler, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Clinical Associate
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Hospital, 715 W. …

This article considers the history of the concept of human dignity from its origins in the Bible
and in Stoic philosophy down to the twentieth century. The major thinkers who contributed to …

In recent years, the international community has accelerated calls for the primary prevention
of extreme, collective violence through study of its root causes, and development of …

The present revision of the Inventory of the world’s Simuliidae continues our intent to provide
yearly, fully updated electronic revisions of the World Inventory, which originally was issued …

The present revision of the Inventory of the world’s Simuliidae continues the intent to provide
yearly, fully updated electronic revisions of the World Inventory, which originally was issued …

Shooting ranges represent about 10% of polluted sites in Switzerland. This pollution, mainly
consisting of lead (Pb) and antimony (Sb), can spread into the local groundwater, wildlife …

… Dean Adler's proposal creates the impression that !he Coll ge' s … In return for the resources
of the Dean's Office, Adler requested that representa tives of the various academic societies …

Ectoparasites of bats and bat-associated pathogens are poorly studied in the Lesser Antilles
Islands. We report on an 11-mo field study on Saint Kitts Island of bat populations, their …