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Because this was the longest, most rigorously conducted study of an antismoking ordinance to date--a smaller study from Helena, Mont., was criticized because it lasted just six months--the findings are worth examining in detail. Pueblo turned out to be an ideal spot for this sort of investigation, says Dr. Christine Nevin-Woods, a public-health physician and one of the study's authors. Located 110 miles south of Denver, Pueblo (pop. 104,000) is geographically isolated, so many confounding factors--such as the movement of large populations--that you'd find in a big place like New York...
Anyone who wants to see the health benefits of municipal smoke-free ordinances need look no further than Pueblo, Colo. After much political back-and-forth, the city banned smoking in restaurants, offices and other indoor spaces in the summer of 2003 and started seeing results within months. In the year and a half before the ban, the city recorded 399 heart attacks; in the 18 months after the change, there were 108 fewer heart attacks. That 27% decrease alone, according to a study presented last week at the annual American Heart Association meeting, resulted in a savings...
...statistical analysis was complicated, however, and required help from researchers at the Colorado Prevention Center and the University of Colorado. Investigators chose for comparison two areas that don't have smoke-free laws: the part of Pueblo county outside the city and an adjacent county. Although the number of heart attacks fell in both of those areas, the drop was small and not statistically significant...
...hemos creado una nueva cultura de participaci?n electoral?, dice. ?Antes, no ten?amos senadores o gobernadores o congresistas o alcaldes latinos. Ahora s?. ?Cu?l es el pr?ximo desaf?o? ?Los votantes quieren saber ??C?mo arreglamos las escuelas, los parques, el sistema de salud??. Tenemos que buscar soluciones que levanten a nuestro pueblo de los escalones inferiores?. A prop?sito, Gonz?lez fue clave en promover el voto donde los californianos aprobaron m?s de $30 mil millones en bonos escolares desde el 2002, y est? calentando los motores para un iniciativa preescolar...
...emotional redemption. A series of academic studies over the past decade have shown that in many cases, victims are more likely to sue their medical provider if they feel he or she has not been sufficiently compassionate and communicative. Although she's not a scientific researcher, Jennifer Dingman of Pueblo, Colo., knows that firsthand. Soon after her mother died in 1995 at age 78 as a result of a series of misdiagnoses and medication errors, Dingman started a patient-advocacy organization called PULSE, or Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in health care. "In every scenario, people who have filed...