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Volume 123 , Issue Number 4
July/August 2008

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A Regional Approach to Organizing Local Public Health Systems and the Impact on Emergency Preparedness: The Nebraska Experience
David Palm / Colleen Svodoba /  

Emergency Preparedness as a Catalyst for Regionalizing Local Public Health: The Massachusetts Case Study
Howard K. Koh / Amie C. Shei / Christine M. Judge / Michael A. Stoto / Loris J. Elqura / Harold Cox / Gilbert A. Nick / Jonathan L. Burstein / Suzanne K. Condon  

Regionalization in Local Public Health Departments: The Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium
Patrick Lenihan  

A Message from the Editor 		419
Laurence Reed  

Surgeon General's Perspectives 		420
Steven K. Galson  

Letters to the Editor 		422

Increasing Safe Syringe Collection Sites in New York State 		433
Susan J. Klein / Alma R. Candelas / Jay G. Cooper / Wesley E. Badillo / James M. Tesoriero / Haven B. Battles / Hope A. Plavin  

Regionalization in Local Public Health Systems: Variation in Rationale, Implementation, and Impact on Public Health Preparedness 		441
Michael A. Stoto  

Regional Public Health Emergency Preparedness: The Experience of Massachusetts Region 4b 		450
John Grieb / Mary E. Clark  

Regionalization in Local Public Health Systems: Public Health Preparedness in the Washington Metropolitan Area 		461
Michael A. Stoto / Lindsey Morse  

Using Google Earth as an Innovative Tool for Community Mapping 		474
Theodore B. Lefer / Matthew R. Anderson / Alice Fornari / Anastasia Lambert / Jason Fletcher / Maria Baquero  

How Much Time Is Safety Worth? A Comparison of Trigger Configurations on Pneumatic Nail Guns in Residential Framing 		481
Hester J. Lipscomb / James Nolan / Dennis Patterson / Dimitrios Makrozahopoulos / Kristen L. Kucera / John M. Dement  

Maternal Obesity and Risk of Infant Death Based on Florida Birth Records for 2004 		487
Daniel R. Thompson / Cheryl L. Clark / Betsy Wood / Mary Beth Zeni  

Scope of Rapid HIV Testing in Urban U.S. Hospitals 		494
Laura M. Bogart / Devery Howerton / James Lange / Kirsten Becker / Claude Messan Setodji / Steven M. Asch  

Economic Benefits of Hepatitis B Vaccination at Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics in the U.S. 		504
M'Kiaira K. Miriti / Kaafee Billah / Cindy Weinbaum / Julie Subiadur / Richard Zimmerman / Paula Murray / Robert Gunn / Joanna Buffington  

Ethnic Disparities in Stroke Recognition in Individuals with Prior Stroke 		514
Charles Ellis / Leonard E. Egede  

Local Acts: Giving Literacy a Shot in the Arm 		523
Margret I. Schnitzer / Dana B. Kaplin / Virginia A. Keane / Barry Zuckerman / Joshua M. Sharfstein  

Law and the Public's Health: Increasing Transparency at the FDA: The Impact of the FDA Amendments Act of 2007 		527
Susan F. Wood / Kristen L. Perosino  

NCHS Dataline 		531

From the Schools of Public Health: On Linkages: Increasing Awareness of an Interest in Public Health and Cancer Control Careers Among Minority Middle School Students 		533
Kassandra I. Alcaraz / Matthew W. Kreuter / Kia L. Davis / Vickie L. Rogers / Theresa W. Samways / Rebecca P. Bryan  

From the Schools of Public Health: On Academics: Training for Disaster Response Personnel: The Development of Proposed Core Competencies in Disaster Mental Health 		539
George S. Everly, Jr. / Randal D. Beaton / Betty Pfefferbaum / Cindy L. Parker  

2008 Summer Programs at Schools of Public Health 		543

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