CDC: fall prevention.(Funding Opportunities)(Brief Article)
Through STEADI, CDC aims to: (a) implement clinical fall prevention interventions on a large-scale; and (b) integrate fall prevention into health systems. This report describes CDC's efforts to date to disseminate and expand outreach of STEADI to primary care providers and discusses approaches pr...
The CDC Guidelines for TB Control address the need for dilution of airborne bacteria in rooms occupied by patients with known or suspected TB infection. Dilution is a key engineering control in prevention of the spread of TB. The CDC explains that room air must be kept moving throughout all ...
One early analysis of the CDC guidance suggests nearly 90% of people in the U.S. live in counties that fall into the two highest of five risk categories for reopening schools.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local partners, investigated a multistate outbreak ofEschericia coliO157:H7 infections in the fall of 2020. The epidemiology and traceback investigation have dete...
The other serious game, known as “Solve the Outbreak” (StO) was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the objective of teaching players about infectious diseases, outbreaks, and how epidemiologists use their knowledge to save lives [19]. In this online game,...
Conclusions The AR-SIB is a reliable and valid tool to discriminate falls and screen for fall risk among Arabic-speaking community-dwelling older adults. The AR-SIB can facilitate the implementation of evidence-based fall prevention initiatives tailored to Arabic-speaking older adults.View...
U.S. health officials will start formally tracking infections caused by the rare but potentially deadly germ that sickened babies and triggered a nationwide shortage of infant formula last year. A group that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agreed Thursday to ...
This Compendium includes specific interventions that have rigorous scientific evidence of effectiveness and provides relevant information about these interventions to public health practitioners, senior service providers, and others who wish to implement fall prevention programs.Stevens, J. A....
of falls among older adults in Saudi Arabia, the lack of comprehensive national data on falls is a critical limitation that hinders our understanding of the extent and nature of this public health issue. This limitation may also impede the implementation of evidence-based fall prevention programs....