| | A Message from the Editor PMCID: PMC1497642 Chronic disease control in public health practice: looking back and moving forward. Ross C Brownson and Frank S Bright PMCID: PMC1497626 Patient self-management: a key to effectiveness and efficiency in care of chronic disease. Halsted Holman and Kate Lorig PMCID: PMC1497631 Integrating population smoking cessation policies and programs. James O Prochaska and Wayne F Velicer PMCID: PMC1497634 Addressing the chronic disease burden with tobacco control programs. Samira Asma, Wick Warren, Sandy Althomsons, Myra Wisotzky, Trevor Woollery, and Rosemarie Henson PMCID: PMC1497636 The growing burden of chronic disease in America. Gerard Anderson and Jane Horvath PMCID: PMC1497638 From research to policy: Targeting the primary prevention of childhood lead poisoning. Felicia A Rabito, LuAnn E White, and Charles Shorter PMCID: PMC1497640 State implementation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000: a collaborative effort among government agencies. Cynthia French, Susan True, Rosemarie McIntyre, Margherita Sciulli, and Kathleen A Maloy PMCID: PMC1497624 Enabling the nation's schools to help prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer, COPD, diabetes, and other serious health problems. Lloyd Kolbe, Laura Kann, Beth Patterson, Howell Wechsler, Jenny Osorio, and Janet Collins PMCID: PMC1497629 The National Tobacco Control Program: focusing on policy to broaden impact. Myra Wisotzky, Melissa Albuquerque, Terry F Pechacek, and Barbara Z Park PMCID: PMC1497633 Using the Essential Public Health Services as strategic leverage to strengthen the public health response to diabetes. Dawn W Satterfield, Dara Murphy, Joyce D K Essien, Gwen Hosey, Melissa Stankus, Pete Hoffman, Kaetz Beartusk, Patricia L Mitchell, and Ana Alfaro-Correa PMCID: PMC1497627 Reducing disparities for African Americans with diabetes: progress made by the REACH 2010 Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition. Carolyn Jenkins, Sara McNary, Barbara A Carlson, Marilyn Givens King, Charles L Hossler, Gayenell Magwood, Deyi Zheng, Katharine Hendrix, Lorna Shelton Beck, Florene Linnen, Virginia Thomas, Sheila Powell, and Imani Ma'at PMCID: PMC1497632 Physical activity policy and program development: the experience in Finland. Ilkka Vuori, Becky Lankenau, and Michael Pratt PMCID: PMC1497635 Physical Activity Policy Development: a synopsis of the WHO/CDC Consultation, September 29 through October 2, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia. Roy J Shephard, Becky Lankenau, Michael Pratt, Andrea Neiman, Pekka Puska, Hamadi Benaziza, and Adrian Bauman PMCID: PMC1497637 International physical activity policy development: a commentary. Becky Lankenau, Alfredo Solari, and Michael Pratt PMCID: PMC1497639 Changes in health behaviors among older Americans, 1990 to 2000. Ali H Mokdad, Wayne H Giles, Barbara A Bowman, George A Mensah, Earl S Ford, Suzanne M Smith, and James S Marks PMCID: PMC1497641 Community and confinement: The evolving experience for isolation for leprosy in Carville, Louisiana. Amy L Fairchild PMCID: PMC1497625 Olmstead V. L.C. and the Americans with Disabilities Act: implications for public health policy and practice. Joel Teitelbaum, Taylor Burke, and Sara Rosenbaum PMCID: PMC1497630 Public Health Rep. 2004 May–Jun; 119(3): 375. PMCID: PMC1497644 Public Health Rep. 2004 May–Jun; 119(3): 378–379. PMCID: PMC1497643 ASPH/American Legacy Foundation STEP UP Program: An innovative partnership for tobacco studies in the schools of public health. Andrew E Balas, Kalpana Ramiah, and Karen Martin PMCID: PMC1497628 |
