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Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017

The 63,632 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 represented a 21.4% increase from 2015; two thirds of these deaths involved an opioid (1). From 2015 to 2016, drug o...

Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2013–2019

Mental health encompasses a range of mental, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning and occurs along a continuum from good to poor. Previous research has documented that ...

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain<b>—</b>United States, 2022

This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged ≥18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for...

Medical Costs of Fatal and Nonfatal Falls in Older Adults

Objectives To estimate medical expenditures attributable to older adult falls using a methodology that can be updated annually to track these expenditures over time. Design Popu...

Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence

The current epidemic of violence in America threatens not only our physical health but also the integrity of basic social institutions such as the family, the communities in whi...

Data collection instrument and procedure for systematic reviews in the guide to community preventive services11The names and affiliations of the Task Force members are listed on page v of this supplement and at http://www.thecommunityguide.org

The public health burdens of sedentary living habits

Quantitative estimates indicate that sedentary living is responsible for about one-third of deaths due to coronary heart disease, colon cancer, and diabetes--three diseases for ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Public Health Issues for the 21st Century

Infectious diseases are the third leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause worldwide. As the new millennium approaches, the public health community must...

Truncated Importance Sampling

AbstractImportance sampling is a fundamental Monte Carlo technique. It involves generating a sample from a proposal distribution in order to estimate some property of a target d...