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A review of demographic and infrastructural factors and potential solutions to the physician and nursing shortage predicted to impact the growing US elderly populationSteven A Cohen
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 15:352-62. 2009..Any specific measures to remedy this growing problem should be implemented in a timely manner to reduce this critical shortage of healthcare workers that will only continue to grow in the coming decades...
Grandparental caregiving, income inequality and respiratory infections in elderly US individualsSteven A Cohen
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Stearns 203D, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:246-53. 2011....
Trends for influenza and pneumonia hospitalization in the older population: age, period, and cohort effectsS A Cohen
Tufts School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, 136 Harrison Village, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Epidemiol Infect 138:1135-45. 2010..Further understanding of these circumstances and those resulting age and cohort groups most vulnerable to P&I may help to target health services towards those most at risk of disease...
Influenza vaccination in young children reduces influenza-associated hospitalizations in older adults, 2002-2006Steven A Cohen
Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Disease, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:327-32. 2011..To assess how influenza vaccination coverage in children is related to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in older adults and whether sociodemographic factors modify these associations...
Measuring disease burden in the older population using the slope-intercept method for population log-linear estimation (SIMPLE)Steven A Cohen
Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Stat Med 30:480-8. 2011..We also present spatial and temporal associations between the two measurements the SIMPLE method produces...
Snowbirds and infection--new phenomena in pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations from winter migration of older adults: a spatiotemporal analysisKenneth K H Chui
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BMC Public Health 11:444. 2011..Given the high seasonal migration of individuals to Florida, this state was examined more closely using harmonic regression to assess spatial and temporal patterns of P&I hospitalizations by state of residence...
Visual analytics for epidemiologists: understanding the interactions between age, time, and disease with multi-panel graphsKenneth K H Chui
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e14683. 2011..We propose a graphical tool that can reveal the distribution of an outcome by time and age simultaneously...
Childhood Hib vaccination and pneumonia and influenza burden in US seniorsSteven A Cohen
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA steven
Vaccine 28:4462-9. 2010..The consistent associations between influenza in the elderly and vaccination coverage in children suggest that routine vaccination of children may impart some indirect protection to the elderly...
Pursuing cost-effectiveness in mental health service delivery for youth with complex needsKatherine E Grimes
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 14:73-83. 2011..MHSPY's linked clinical and expense data is useful to study community-based treatment cost-effectiveness...
Residential traffic exposure, pulse pressure, and C-reactive protein: consistency and contrast among exposure characterization methodsChristine L Rioux
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02155, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:803-11. 2010..Traffic exposure may increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk via systemic inflammation and elevated blood pressure, two important clinical markers for managing disease progression...
Commentary: population-level risk factors, population health, and health policyElena N Naumova
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Public Health Policy 29:290-8. 2008
