Health promotion counseling of chronic-disease patients during primary care visits.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the extent to which early life conditions and adverse life events impact chewing ability in middle and later adulthood. METHODS:Secondary analyses were conducted based on data from waves 2 and 3 of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), collected in the years ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Listl S,Watt RG,Tsakos G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is recommended for tobacco cessation on the basis of pharmaceutical industry research showing its effectiveness when combined with counseling. The tobacco industry opposed NRT when it first appeared in the 1980s but by 2016 was marketing its own NRT products. We used internal tobacco...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Apollonio D,Glantz SA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social, political, and economic disruptions caused by natural and human-caused public health emergencies have catalyzed public health efforts to expand the scope of biosurveillance and increase the timeliness, quality, and comprehensiveness of disease detection, alerting, response, and prediction. Unfortunately, effor...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Khan AS,Fleischauer A,Casani J,Groseclose SL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses monthly time-series data from 1968 through 1988 to test whether the observed increase in the incidence of low birthweight in New York City represents a reversal of the downward trend that existed prior to 1984. We find that the trend has shifted for both Whites and Blacks. We estimate that between July...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Joyce T

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using claims data from 443 employee groups in North Carolina, this study examines the acute care hospital utilization rates of hospital employees and their dependents and compares them to employee groups in non-hospital settings. Results show that hospital employee groups account for 28 per cent more hospital days tha...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Greene SB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of RU 486 (mifepristone), a steroid analogue capable of inducing menses within 8 to 10 weeks of a missed menstrual period, has provoked a firestorm of concern and controversy. When used in conjunction with prostaglandin (RU 486/PG), it is at least 95% effective. Used in France principally to terminate confi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Banwell SS,Paxman JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess how US Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) awardees plan to respond to an influenza pandemic with vaccination. METHODS:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Pandemic Influenza Readiness Assessment, an online survey sent to PHEP directors, to analyze, in part, the rea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Moulia DL,Graitcer SB,Vagi SJ,Dopson SA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of a brief educational and purchase program concerning home fires and smoke detectors by two pediatricians were compared to "routine" counseling without such a program using two groups each of 120 patients of well children. Inspection performed four to six weeks after the office visits showed that of 55 experi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Miller RE,Reisinger KS,Blatter MM,Wucher F

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Data from the Western Collaborative Group Study were used to determine the extent to which the inverse association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality can be explained by risk factors for major causes of mortality. METHODS:The relation of education and income to subsequent mortality was studied...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bucher HC,Ragland DR

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors measured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (DDE) in maternal serum, cord blood, placenta, and serial samples of breast milk from 868 women. Almost all samples of breast milk showed detectable levels of both chemicals. Overall, values for DDE in this study are within the r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rogan WJ,Gladen BC,McKinney JD,Carreras N,Hardy P,Thullen J,Tingelstad J,Tully M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the efficacy of skills training designed to increase female condom use among women. METHODS:We conducted a randomized controlled trial of 409 women, recruited from family planning clinics in northern California, who were randomly assigned to the experimental 4-session female condom skills train...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Choi KH,Hoff C,Gregorich SE,Grinstead O,Gomez C,Hussey W

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing knowledge is an important goal of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention strategies, although increased knowledge may not be associated with increased preventive behaviors. This study examines the association of (1) objective and subjective acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) knowledge, and (2)...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Phillips KA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of age specific rates of psychiatric admissions within Brooklyn, New York, indicated that population density may function as an intervening variable in the production of mental illness. Measures of household and family contact were found to be significantly correlated to four rates of hospital utilizati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schweitzer L,Su WH

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The status of mammography screening experience and factors related to utilization were examined in six towns serviced by physician staffs at five hospitals. Data were collected via random digit dial telephone interview of a probability sample of 1184 women, aged 45-75 years. The results showed that 55% of the women re...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zapka JG,Stoddard AM,Costanza ME,Greene HL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A 10-month direct mail campaign was implemented to increase use of emergency medical services via 911 calls and to reduce prehospital delay for individuals experiencing acute myocardial infarction symptoms. METHODS:This prospective, randomized, controlled trial involved three intervention groups (receiving ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meischke H,Dulberg EM,Schaeffer SS,Henwood DK,Larsen MP,Eisenberg MS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the effectiveness of a 2-year multicomponent, school-based intervention designed to reduce tobacco use rates among adolescents in an urban area of India. METHODS:Students from 32 schools in Delhi and Chennai, India, were recruited and randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. Baseli...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Perry CL,Stigler MH,Arora M,Reddy KS

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public awareness of the risks of drinking during pregnancy was assessed in a Northwestern metropolitan county. Ninety per cent of respondents stated spontaneously that drinking might be harmful, and one-fourth of this group felt pregnant women should customarily abstain from alcohol. The balance of those who considere...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Little RE,Grathwohl HL,Streissguth AP,McIntyre C

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To inform a prevention strategy, this study determined the prevalence of and attitudes toward smoking among Chinese secondary school students. METHODS:Self-completion questionnaires were administered to 13- to 18-year-olds attending school in Zhejiang Province, eastern China. RESULTS:Of the 6674 respondent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hesketh T,Ding QJ,Tomkins A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought information about the cost-related underuse of medications-which medications are underused, by whom, and how often. METHODS:Chronically ill adults were asked to identify how often they underused prescription medication for 16 health conditions because of the cost. RESULTS:Eighteen percent of resp...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Piette JD,Heisler M,Wagner TH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined self-reported health status, health behaviors, access to care, and use of preventive services of the US Hispanic adult population to identify language-associated disparities. METHODS:We analyzed 2003 to 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from 45 076 Hispanic adults in 23 states...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： DuBard CA,Gizlice Z

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:After conducting a media campaign focusing on the importance of oral and pharyngeal cancer (OPC) examinations, we assessed mechanisms of behavior change among individuals receiving an OPC examination for the first time. METHODS:We used data from 2 waves of telephone surveys of individuals residing in 36 rur...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Logan HL,Guo Y,Emanuel AS,Shepperd JA,Dodd VJ,Marks JG,Muller KE,Riley JL 3rd

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed attitudes and opinions of members of newborn blood screening (NBS) advisory committees regarding the storage and secondary research use of residual specimens from NBS. METHODS:We conducted focus groups in 2008 and 2009 with NBS advisory committees (4 focus groups; n = 39 participants) in the Mou...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rothwell EW,Anderson RA,Burbank MJ,Goldenberg AJ,Lewis MH,Stark LA,Wong B,Botkin JR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed shifts in patterns of mortality during a hot weather event in greater Vancouver, British Columbia. METHODS:We used a case-only analysis to compare characteristics of individuals who died during the hottest week of 2009 with those who died (1) during earlier summer weeks in 2009 and (2) during th...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kosatsky T,Henderson SB,Pollock SL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All locatable subjects (n = 94) for whom tuberculosis prevalence had been determined in an earlier study were tested with purified protein derivative (PPD) and control antigens, sputum sampling, and chest x-rays. Of the 46 who had been tuberculin negative (confirmed with control antigens) 3 years earlier, 2 had develo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ciesielski S,Esposito D,Protiva J,Piehl M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated emergency department (ED)-based outreach for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). METHODS:We conducted a multicenter trial among uninsured children (< or = 18 years) who presented to 5 EDs in 2001 and 2002. On-site staff enrolled consecutive subjects for a control period follo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gordon JA,Emond JA,Camargo CA Jr

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the persistence and comorbidity of women's physical and mental health conditions after pregnancy and the association of these conditions with child outcomes. METHODS:A national cohort of women who recently gave birth were surveyed in 1988 and again in 1991. We examined longitudinal data ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kahn RS,Zuckerman B,Bauchner H,Homer CJ,Wise PH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed Florida pediatric gonococcal (GC) infection surveillance data collected between 1984 and 1988. The incidence rate was 11 per 100,000 per year for the age group 1 month through 9 years. Incidence rates were higher for females, other-than-Whites, and residents of rural counties than for males, Whites, and re...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Desenclos JC,Garrity D,Wroten J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) have increased fivefold in the past decade. To address this expanding and complex issue, state public health agencies have addressed the opioid crisis affecting newborns in diverse ways, leading to a variety of methods to quantify the burden of NAS.In an effort to understand...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chiang KV,Okoroh EM,Kasehagen LJ,Garcia-Saavedra LF,Ko JY

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An interview study of persons diagnosed with multiple myeloma between 1977 and 1981 and suitable control subjects was conducted to test the hypothesis that exposure to hair dyes increases the risk of multiple myeloma. Among women, there was little evidence that prior regular use of hair dyes (odds ratio [OR] = 1.0; 95...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Herrinton LJ,Weiss NS,Koepsell TD,Daling JR,Taylor JW,Lyon JL,Swanson GM,Greenberg RS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding differential disease susceptibility requires new tools to quantify the cumulative effects of environmental stress. Evidence suggests that social, physical, and chemical stressors can influence disease through the accumulation of epigenetic modifications. Geographically stable epigenetic alterations could...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Olden K,Lin YS,Gruber D,Sonawane B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00