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Farmers market-based interventions, including the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), represent a promising strategy for improving dietary behaviors in low-income communities. Little is known, however, about the health-related characteristics of low-income parents who frequent farmers markets in urban settings.

Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord and causing paralysis. CDC is a strategic partner in the overall effort to eradicate polio worldwide.

Facts about malaria in the United States, Worldwide, prevention and treatment, and biology, pathology and epidemiology.

The Idaho Division of Public Health conducted a pilot study to produce a lead-exposure–risk map to help local and state agencies better target childhood lead-screening efforts.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCC)

Abbreviations: Cu-IUD = copper-containing IUD; IUD = intrauterine device; LNG-IUD = levonorgestrel-releasing IUD; PID = pelvic inflammatory disease.

Answers to questions about multiple vaccine information statements

HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Gardasil Vaccine Information Statement

MMRV (Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella) Vaccine Information Statement

Techniques based on geographic information systems (GIS) have been widely adopted and applied in the fields of infectious disease and environmental epidemiology; their use in chronic disease programs is relatively new.

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The incidence of preventable chronic diseases is disproportionally high among African Americans and could be reduced through diet and physical activity interventions.