Jody Jackson

TL;DR: Variation was found across vaccines, however, sensitivity and specificity did not vary substantially by either age or race/ethnicity; Hispanics were 2.7 times more likely to claim receipt of vaccination compared to whites.

TL;DR: Clinical detection of depression of elderly people living in the community continues to be a problem and the implications of failure to recognize the possibility of depression among elderly White men suggest a serious public health problem.

TL;DR: Among WHI clinical trial participants, there are high positive predictive values of self-reported prevalent diabetes and incident diabetes and a high negative predictive value when diabetes is not reported and for participants enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare, a claims algorithm has high positive and negative predictive values.

TL;DR: Prevalence and some characteristics associated with indoor tanning use, such as sunscreen use, differed between women and men in the United States; greater skin cancer knowledge and higher perceived risk of skin cancer were inversely associated with the behavior in women.

TL;DR: Education regarding osteoporosis prevention seems to encourage women to make lifestyle changes, and the inclusion of BMD testing enhances the likelihood that women will consider pharmaceutical therapy.