In close coordination with the Alabama Department of Public Health, we conducted a program of population-based molecular typing of all Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates identified since 1994 in Alabama.
In 2007 New South Wales Health established a program of regular population based epidemiological dental surveys which used random selection to investigate and report on the Oral Health of Children and Adolescents.
In those lines, Darwin sketched a major research program of population ecology (accounting for population numbers) and of evolutionary ecology.
With the financial backing of some of the filmmakers Mr. Pierson helped, the family had taken over a 288-seat theater on the island of Taveuni, named the 180 Meridian Cinema because of its proximity to the international date line, where they offered a program of free movies to the local population.
Our findings suggest that a program of liver cancer prevention in a population at risk of approximately 6000 people will lead to approximately 1700 additional primary care appointments, 750 specialist appointments and 400 US examinations, assuming a 25% participation rate.
Besides the DHS, the other major program of population-based surveys is UNICEF's Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).
A large study of colorectal cancer patients hospitalised in the US Veteran Administration health care system during the period 1987 98 did not show the survival differences between black and white patients consistently reported from the SEER program of population-based registries.
In addition, and in accordance with local surveys as mentioned above, as long as we assumed that only 13% of the population of smokers would be willing to quit smoking each year and consequently start on a program, the population impact of tobacco cessation therapy was much smaller than expected.
For example, Population Coverage requires an accurate, quantified measure of a program's target population, which may not be readily available in resource-limited settings without birth registration and accurate census information.
A sudden decline of the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) population in one of the best hunting districts for small game species in northern Germany, the German North-Sea island Pellworm, in the years 2007/08 following marked habitat changes led to the implementation of a thorough health assessment program of the population.
