type="main" xml:id="rssa12073-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Recent intervention studies targeted at reducing indoor air pollution have demonstrated both the ability to improve respiratory health outcomes and to reduce particulate matter (PM) levels in the home. However, these studies generally do not...</p>

Background: The usefulness of questionnaires to assess asthma control in clinical practice is recognized in recent international guidelines. While several questionnaires have been developed to measure asthma control in adults, there has been little study of the performance of such instruments in...

Prior studies have related community violence to depression among children, but few studies have examined this relationship among adults. We hypothesized that victimization, awareness, and fear of neighborhood violence would increase the odds of depression among adult caregivers of children with...

Objectives: To compare the experience of one managed care organization (MCO) [Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Midwest Region] to the experience of a reference group of 15 other MCOs participating in a study designed to test the usefulness of outcomes management information in developing and...