But District residents on average reported only 3.4 days when their health was not good. The report also notes that Montgomery County led the region in cases of salmonella infection, with 564 instances between 1996 and 1998. Prince George's County, nearly as populous as Montgomery, had 401 cases, and Fairfax, with considerably more people than Montgomery, had only 447. Public health officials in the Washington area are getting a peek at the preliminary data, according to Ron Bialek, president of the Public Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that teamed up with other groups to collect the quality of life information. By compiling that information by city and county, he said, the project should enable public health officials on the local level to decide which problems are most pressing and which issues need to be addressed.
Children get over loss quickly.
Children should be shielded from loss. Children do grieve when someone they love dies, and they need help from their families, teachers and other adults to learn how to live with the loss. It's important to talk to children openly about the situation and also to allow them to have other outlets, such as art, music and play therapies to express their emotions, the foundation advises. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.