University research was the most cited in the education field, fifth most cited in ecology/environment and psychology/psychiatry and seventh in immunology and computer science.
University Health Systems is home to almost 200 of the nation's best physicians. That's according to a book published every two years by Woodward/White Inc. "The Best Doctors in America: 1999 Edition" lists university doctors from 34 different specialties, ranging from allergy to dermatology.
The results printed in the book are based on physician peer surveys. The publishers of the book asked more than 30,000 physicians across the country to evaluate fellow doctors within their specialty. The complete list of University doctors is available on the University's Medical Center's Website.
The University will hosts tours of its research vessel, the Laurentian, for school children Oct. 6-9. Public open houses are scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 5 and 6. The ship is scheduled to be docked at Upton Park in St. Joseph, Mich.
The program is sponsored by the Frederich S. Upton Foundation of St. Joseph. About 475 students from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph will get to tour the ship. The Laurentian is an 80-foot ship with an "M" painted on its stack. The students will get an opportunity to view the ship's research facilities and laboratories.
The purpose of the tours is to prepare students to take the Great Lakes objectives section on the Michigan Education Assessment Program exam. The tours will cover areas of interest such as ecosystems, food webs and migration into the Great Lakes. The students will collect water samples and look at them under microscopes.
A University study suggests that unhealthy lifestyles are not the primary cause of excess mortality among low-income and less educated Americans.
Public Health Prof. Paula Lantz's study is titled "Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors and Mortality: Results from a Nationally-Representative Prospective Study of U.S. Adults" and appeared in the June 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study showed that contrary to conventional wisdom, low-income Americans do not have higher mortality rates because they smoke, drink, do not exercise or are overweight. The study found that the risky behaviors in low-income and less educated Americans could not explain fully the higher mortality rates.
Rather, Lantz conjectured that other factors such as the stresses of daily life, lower social supports and a decreased sense of control were more important in dictating the high mortality rates. Occupational and environmental health hazards unique to disadvantaged Americans were another factor, Lantz suggested.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud.
10-01-98
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