Providing Evidence for Clinical Practice and Public Health Volume 108, Issue 5 As the Department of Population Health Sciences celebrates its 50th anniversary, this issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal highlights the department’s many areas of research. This variety is represented on the cover, which illustrates some of the research themes. A central focus is the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), which will be the first statewide research survey of its kind. Click on the cover to the left to open the virtual Journal and read any of the articles below. The virtual Journal requires Flash software. To download Flash, click here. View the archived Wisconsin Medical Journal volumes here.

Commentaries

In Remembrance
Ronald H. Laessig, PhD, 1940-2009
Stan Inhorn, MD

Advancing the science of understanding and improving the health of the population
F. Javier Nieto, MD, MPH, PhD

The evolution of the Department of Population Health Sciences
Donn D’Alessio, MD; Jerry Dempsey, PhD; Stan Inhorn, MD; Ronald Laessig, PhD; Mark Albanese, PhD

Original Contributions

Managing Type 1 Diabetes: Trends and Outcomes Over 20 Years in the Wisconsin Diabetes Registry Cohort
Mari Palta, PhD; Tamara LeCaire, MS

Review Articles

Dissemination Research: The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Patrick L. Remington, MD, MPH; D. Paul Moberg, PhD; Bridget C. Booske, PhD; Marion Ceraso, MHS; Donna Friedsam, MPH; David A. Kindig, MD, PhD

A Family Perspective on Population Health: The Case of Child Health and the Family
Whitney P. Witt, PhD, MPH; Thomas DeLeire, PhD

Burden of Sleep Apnea: Rationale, Design, and Major Findings of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study
Terry Young, PhD; Mari Palta, PhD; Jerome Dempsey, PhD; Paul Peppard, PhD; F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD; K. Mae Hla, MD, MHS

Brief Reports

Association of Blood and Hair Mercury with Blood Pressure and Vascular Reactivity
Leonelo E. Bautista, MD, DrPH; James H. Stein, MD; Barbara J. Morgan, PT, PhD; Noel Stanton, MS; Terry Young, PhD; F. Javier Nieto, MD, MPH, PhD

Socioeconomic Disparity in the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Wisconsin
Matthew J. Maenner, BS; Carrie L. Arneson, MS; Maureen S. Durkin, PhD, DrPH

Syndromic Surveillance: Early Results from the MARISSA Project
Ronald Gangnon, PhD; Marc Bellazzini, MD; Kyle Minor, MD; Mark Johnson, MD

Using Lay Health Advisors to Promote Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latinas: A Review
Ana P. Martínez-Donate, PhD

Sleep Disordered Breathing and Metabolic Syndrome
F. Javier Nieto, MD, MPH, PhD; Paul Peppard, PhD; Terry Young, PhD

Parametric Models for Studying Time to Antiretroviral Resistance Associated With Illicit Drug Use
Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS; Stephen J. Gange, PhD

Emerging Research

Modeling physician practice change using Integrated Systems Model
Mark Albanese, PhD; George Mejicano, MD, MS; Patricia Kokotailo, MD; George Xakellis, MBA, MD

From preventive medicine to population health: The research agenda of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Charles Brokopp, DrPH; Ronald Laessig, PhD

Population-based epidemiologic studies of aging: The contributions of a Wisconsin community
Karen J. Cruickshanks, PhD

Genetic architecture of vitamin D
Corinne D. Engelman, PhD

The Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
David A. Kindig, MD, PhD; John Mullahy, PhD; Stephanie Robert, MSW, PhD

Health economics at UW-Madison and the Department of Population Health Sciences
Thomas DeLeire, PhD; John Mullahy, PhD; Barbara Wolfe, PhD

Using the tools of new governance to advance cancer detection, care, and survivorship
Thomas R. Oliver, PhD, MHA; Louise Trubek, JD; Toby Campbell; Matt Mokrohisky; Chih-Ming Liang

Factors affecting global environmental public health
Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH

Using biomarkers of aging to identify modifiable mechanisms underlying age-related risk for cancer
Halcyon G. Skinner, PhD, MPH; Lisa A. Boardman, MD

Introduction to ‘Type 2’ translational research
Maureen A. Smith, MD, MPH, PhD

Epidemiologic breast cancer research at the UW-Madison: A summary of past accomplishments and future directions
Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD

Personal Commentary

The delay of preventive medicine for asbestos caused disease in the 20th Century
Marty S. Kanarek, PhD, MPH


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