Universal radiographic screening for tuberculosis among inmates upon admission to jail.

abstract：:Potable drinking water is essential to public health; however, few studies have investigated income or racial disparities in water infrastructure or drinking water quality. There were many case reports documenting a lack of piped water or serious water quality problems in low income and minority communities, including...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： VanDerslice J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a cross-sectional survey of high-socioeconomic status (SES) African American men and their health to examine the relationship between John Henryism (the strong behavioral predisposition to directly confront barriers to upward social mobility) and self-reported physical health status. We found a positive a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bonham VL,Sellers SL,Neighbors HW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclone Hudah struck the northeastern coast of Madagascar in the spring of 2000. Over a 5-month period, 11 700 relief kits consisting of bottles of water disinfectant and foldable jerry cans were distributed to the affected population. Five months after the cyclone, a survey was conducted in 12 villages to determine t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mong Y,Kaiser R,Ibrahim D,Rasoatiana,Razafimbololona L,Quick RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated relationships among physical and psychological indicators and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) in youths with cleft. METHODS:We recruited youths aged 7 to 18 years with cleft palate (n = 282) or cleft lip and palate (n = 918) and their caregivers into a 5-year observational investig...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Broder HL,Wilson-Genderson M,Sischo L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To examine relationships among actionable drivers and facilitators of stigma and nurses' intentions to provide the standard of maternal care recommended by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) for incarcerated women.Methods. We conducted a Web-based survey of perinatal...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Goshin LS,Sissoko DRG,Stringer KL,Sufrin C,Byrnes L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present results from life history interviews with 60 young adults from southern Uganda. Using a novel qualitative case-control design, we compared newly HIV-positive cases with HIV-negative controls matched on age, gender, marital status, and place of residence. Relationship context was the most salient theme diffe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Higgins JA,Mathur S,Eckel E,Kelley L,Nakyanjo N,Sekamwa R,Namatovu J,Ddaaki W,Nakubulwa R,Namakula S,Nalugoda F,Santelli JS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postabortion care providers who breach patient confidentiality endanger women's health and violate ethics. A 1998 abortion ban in El Salvador likely spurred an increase in the number of women investigated, because many women were reported to legal authorities by health care providers. Having analyzed safeguards of con...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McNaughton HL,Mitchell EM,Hernandez EG,Padilla K,Blandon MM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographic distribution of newborn human immunodeficiency virus seroprevalence at zip code level was compared with the distribution of four sociodemographic variables. For New York City significant univariate correlations were found between HIV and low birthweight, drug use (as measured by hospital discharges), ma...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Morse DL,Lessner L,Medvesky MG,Glebatis DM,Novick LF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test the effectiveness of a preclinical, telephone-based patient navigation intervention to encourage colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among older Black men. METHODS:We conducted a 3-parallel-arm, randomized trial among 731 self-identified Black men recruited at barbershops between 2010 and 2013 in New ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cole H,Thompson HS,White M,Browne R,Trinh-Shevrin C,Braithwaite S,Fiscella K,Boutin-Foster C,Ravenell J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Along with the rest of Central and Eastern Europe, Croatia has begun to dismantle its long-standing socialist health care system and to replace it with a market-based approach. Marketization's advocates maintain that the market will bring efficiency and quality to the Croatian health care system. Nevertheless, data fr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chen MS,Mastilica M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean imm...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fruchter RG,Nayeri K,Remy JC,Wright C,Feldman JG,Boyce JG,Burnett WS

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the marketing strategies for local vapor stores in a large metropolitan area in Oklahoma. METHODS:Vapor store owners or managers (n = 33) participated in individual interviews regarding marketing practices in 2014. We asked owners about their marketing strategies and the groups they targeted. We...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cheney M,Gowin M,Wann TF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated sexual orientation disparities in Papanicolaou screening among US women aged 21 to 44 years (n = 9581) in the 2006 to 2010 National Survey of Family Growth. The odds ratios for lesbian versus heterosexual women and women with no versus only male sexual partners were 0.40 and 0.32, respectively, and wer...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Agénor M,Krieger N,Austin SB,Haneuse S,Gottlieb BR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed which types of mass media messages might reduce disparities in smoking prevalence among disadvantaged population subgroups. METHODS:We followed 1491 adult smokers over 24 months and related quitting status at follow-up to exposure to antismoking ads in the 2 years prior to the baseline assessmen...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Durkin SJ,Biener L,Wakefield MA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined hospital administrators' experiences with the National Practitioner Data Bank. METHODS:One hundred forty-nine rural hospital administrators completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of the data bank. RESULTS:Nearly 90% of respondents rated the data bank as an important source...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Neighbor WE,Baldwin LM,West PA,Hart LG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article reports findings from a peer-delivered intervention designed to increase use of breast and cervical cancer screening. METHODS:Twenty-six worksites were randomly assigned to the intervention or comparison group. The 16-month intervention consisted of group discussions, outreach, and educational ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Allen JD,Stoddard AM,Mays J,Sorensen G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This microqualitative case study of a community-based peer education program led by sex workers at a South African mine examined the role of grassroots participation in sexual health promotion. METHODS:The study involved in-depth interviews with 30 members of the target community. The interviews were analyz...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Campbell C,Mzaidume Z

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schools of Public Health historically introduced core curriculum courses in the first year of the Master of Public Health program as independent perspectives; these perspectives included epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, public health biology, health behaviors, and health policy. We performed a pilot ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dewar DM,Bloom MS,Choi H,Gensburg L,Hosler A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale to 547 San Francisco Latinos as part of a random digit dialing telephone survey to evaluate smoking behavior. Both men and women current smokers had the highest mean CES-D levels (9.7 and 14.3, respectively). Logistic regression analysis a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Pérez-Stable EJ,Marín G,Marín BV,Katz MH

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight matched men's and women's intercollegiate varsity teams were studied prospectively for one academic year to determine the incidence of athletic injury and resulting disability. Sports in which both men and women participated in a comparable manner were chosen: basketball, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lanese RR,Strauss RH,Leizman DJ,Rotondi AM

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because there has been a recent trend toward delay of childbearing in the United States, women in the birth cohort of 1945-49 will have an estimated 5 per cent greater incidence of breast cancer, and those in the cohort of 1950-54 an estimated 9 per cent greater incidence compared with the cohort of 1935-39, which had...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White E

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I applied the capture-recapture method to estimate the World Trade Center tower population at the time of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Available lists helped identify 8965 survivors and 2152 confirmed casualties. The capture-recapture model suggested that an additional 4435 survivors were present, puttin...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Murphy J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The association between the timing of discussions about condoms between mother and adolescent and adolescents' condom use during their first and subsequent sexual encounters was examined. METHODS:Sexually active adolescents reported whether and when they discussed condoms with their mother and answered ques...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Miller KS,Levin ML,Whitaker DJ,Xu X

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The year 2017 marks both the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Code and the first major revisions of federal research regulations in almost 3 decades. I suggest that the informed consent provisions of the federal research regulations continue to follow the requirements of the Nuremberg Code. However, modifications are...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Annas GJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early stages of an influenza pandemic, a pandemic vaccine likely will not be available. Therefore, interventions to mitigate pandemic influenza transmission in communities will be an important component of the response to a pandemic. Public-housing residents, single-parent families, and low-income populatio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bouye K,Truman BI,Hutchins S,Richard R,Brown C,Guillory JA,Rashid J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. We explored gender role strain (GRS) arising from conflict between homosexuality and cultural conceptions of masculinity among young Black men who have sex with men (MSM). Methods. We conducted a categorical analysis (a qualitative, 3-stage, iterative analysis) of data from studies conducted in 2001 to 200...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fields EL,Bogart LM,Smith KC,Malebranche DJ,Ellen J,Schuster MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of April 1987, states were permitted to raise the speed limit on rural interstates to 65 mph without incurring federal sanctions; 38 states elected to do so in 1987. Fatality data for the months when the new limit was in effect in 1987 were compared with fatalities in the same months of 1982-86 on rural interstates...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baum HM,Lund AK,Wells JK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Oregon, adult foster care (AFC) homes, which are private residences where a live-in manager cares for one to five disabled residents, have been covered by Medicaid since 1981 and seem to offer a mainstream alternative to nursing homes. They house almost 6000 older people, two thirds of which pay privately...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kane RA,Kane RL,Illston LH,Nyman JA,Finch MD

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term effects of a low-intensity work-site heart disease risk reduction program using a matched pair design with work site as the unit of analysis. METHODS:Twenty-six heterogeneous work sites with between 125 and 750 employees were matched on key organizati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Glasgow RE,Terborg JR,Hollis JF,Severson HH,Boles SM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our study tested the effectiveness of network methods for identifying opinion leaders and for constructing groups. METHODS:Three conditions-random, teacher, and network--ere randomly assigned to 84 6th-grade classrooms within 16 schools. Pre- and postcurriculum data on mediators of tobacco use were collecte...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Valente TW,Hoffman BR,Ritt-Olson A,Lichtman K,Johnson CA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00