Smoking policies and smoking cessation programs of large employers in Massachusetts.

abstract：:Recently in Russia, abortion rights have been attacked. For decades, Russian women could have an elective abortion up to week 12 of pregnancy; between 12 and 22 weeks, medical or social grounds were required for an abortion. In mid 2011, a group of Parliamentarians teamed up with Russian Orthodox Church activists and ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Erofeeva LV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many assertions have been made about the competence of juries in dealing with expert evidence. I review the types of expert evidence that jurors hear and the impact of adversary legal procedure on the form and manner in which evidence is presented. Empirical research indicates that jurors understand the adversary proc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Vidmar N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction is a complex brain disease with frequently overlapping expressions involving nicotine, alcohol, and other drugs. Yet current health care practices, public policies, and national treatment data too often exclude nicotine or address its use as completely separate from other forms of substance use and addiction...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Richter L,Foster SE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide evaluation of 49 Veterans Administration drug dependence treatment programs was conducted using a sample of 1,655 patients. Their status with reference to seven treatment goals was assessed at admission and again 11 months later to determine change. The following changes were observed: a large decrease in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lorei TW,Francke GN,Harger PS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence of abortion among population groups and changes in rates between 2008 and 2014. METHODS:We used secondary data from the Abortion Patient Survey, the American Community Survey, and the National Survey of Family Growth to estimate abortion rates. We used information from the Abortion ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jones RK,Jerman J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In suicidal behavior emergency room admissions of 13- to 17-year olds at the Brockton Hospital (Massachusetts), females predominated over males by almost two to one. For subclassification of life-threatening behaviors, frequency was about the same for males and females, but for suicide attempts and suicide gestures, f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Deykin EY,Perlow R,McNamarra J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the relationship between enrollment in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and delivery of small-for-gestational-age infants. METHODS:WIC records were linked with birth certificates for 1992 full-term births; 41,234 WIC records and 18,34 non-W...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ahluwalia IB,Hogan VK,Grummer-Strawn L,Colville WR,Peterson A

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of deer brought to tagging stations at 24 sites in Main revealed the presence of the deer tick, Ixodes dammini, on 5.1 percent of deer. Ticks were found almost exclusively on deer from southwest coastal sites in the state. The potential for endemic Lyme disease in coastal Maine merits further study. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Smith RP Jr,Rand PW,Lacombe EH

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the public health importance of law modernization, we undertook a comparative analysis of policy efforts in 4 states (Alaska, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nebraska) that have considered public health law reform based on the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. Through national legislative tracking and ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meier BM,Hodge JG Jr,Gebbie KM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to assess the association between child care arrangements and repeated ear infections in young children. METHODS:Data on 5818 children younger than 6 years of age were taken from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey of Child Health. RESULTS:Seventeen percent of the childr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hardy AM,Fowler MG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the effect of birth cohort on incidence rates of hip fracture among women and men in the Framingham Study. METHODS:Age-specific incidence rates of first hip fracture were presented according to tertile of year of birth for 5209 participants of the Framingham Study, a population-based coh...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Samelson EJ,Zhang Y,Kiel DP,Hannan MT,Felson DT

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Public Health Service began the medical examination of immigrants at US ports in 1891. By 1924, national origin had become a means to justify broad-based exclusion of immigrants after Congress passed legislation restricting immigration from southern and eastern European countries. This legislation was passed ba...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fairchild AL,Tynan EA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated ethnic disparities in obtaining medical care among the 4 major ethnic groups (Blacks, Whites, Coloreds [i.e., those of mixed race], and Asians) in post-apartheid South Africa. METHODS:Data for the study came from the 2002 Afrobarometer: Round II Survey of South Africa. Bivariate and multivar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kon ZR,Lackan N

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the relationship between obstetrical intervention and preterm birth in the United States between 1991 and 2006. METHODS:We assessed changes in preterm birth, cesarean delivery, labor induction, and associated risks. Logistic regression modeled the odds of preterm obstetrical intervention after r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： MacDorman MF,Declercq E,Zhang J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared estimates for children with and without special health care needs (SHCN) at 2 time periods for national health objectives related to the Healthy People 2010 leading health indicators (LHIs). METHODS:Data were from the 2003 and 2007 National Surveys of Children's Health. Seven survey items were r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ghandour RM,Grason HA,Schempf AH,Strickland BB,Kogan MD,Jones JR,Nichols D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To assess the association between exposure to the US criminal legal system and well-being.Methods. We used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study of family incarceration experience (n = 2815), which includes measures of participants' own...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sundaresh R,Yi Y,Roy B,Riley C,Wildeman C,Wang EA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six primary care practices which utilize both physician and non-physician practitioner types were studied to measure differences between practitioner types in the care of patients. By chart review 1,369 patient-practitioner encounters were examined. Physicians identified less symptoms and signs in their patients and p...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Simborg DW,Starfield BH,Horn SD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health often deals with inconvenient truths. These are best communicated and acted on when public health agencies are independent of the organizations or individuals for whom the truths are inconvenient. The importance of public health independence is exemplified by the lack of involvement of the Pennsylvania D...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Goldstein BD

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the risk of hip fracture in Mexican Americans, the ethnicity of 80 women aged 50 years and over admitted with hip fractures to a Texas hospital was compared with that of age-matched women hospitalized for other reasons. The risk of fracture for Mexican Americans was only 35 per cent that of Whites (95% CI = ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bauer RL,Diehl AK,Barton SA,Brender J,Deyo RA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few data are available on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and risk behaviors among lesbians and bisexual women. A total of 498 lesbians and bisexual women was sampled from public venues in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif, during 1993. The overall HIV seroprevalence was 1.2%. Ten percent of participants ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lemp GF,Jones M,Kellogg TA,Nieri GN,Anderson L,Withum D,Katz M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study sought to determine the accuracy of geocoding for public health databases. METHODS:A test file of 70 addresses, 50 of which involved errors, was generated, and the file was geocoded to the census tract and block group levels by 4 commercial geocoding firms. Also, the "real world" accuracy of the ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Krieger N,Waterman P,Lemieux K,Zierler S,Hogan JW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies antibody titers ranged from 0-9.3 IU/mL in 117 human volunteers one year after intradermal vaccination with one or two doses of human diploid cell rabies vaccine (HDCV). At that time, each volunteer received one 0.1-mL booster dose of HDCV intradermally. All 117 volunteers showed good anamnestic responses, with...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Burridge MJ,Sumner JW,Baer GM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated risk for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in women residing in low-income neighborhoods of northern California. METHODS:A population-based sample of 1707 women, aged 18 to 29, were surveyed and screened for sexually transmitted infections and HCV. RESULTS:Women infected with HCV (2.5%) were m...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Page-Shafer KA,Cahoon-Young B,Klausner JD,Morrow S,Molitor F,Ruiz J,McFarland W,Young Women's Survey Team.

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the professional relationships between midwives and physicians providing obstetrical care in Washington State. Four hundred ninety-six randomly sampled family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists and 211 certified nurse, licensed, and lay midwives were surveyed to learn more about midwife/phys...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baldwin LM,Hutchinson HL,Rosenblatt RA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As one element of Baltimore's effort to combat its high rate of teenage pregnancy, the Baltimore City Health Department added the implantable contraceptive Norplant to the array of services offered at one of its school-based health centers in early 1993. The initial findings with the adolescents who received this cont...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Beilenson PL,Miola ES,Farmer M

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined how Hispanic parents' income and education, combined with their nativity status, influenced the body mass index (BMI) of their children, compared with non-Hispanic White children and their parents. METHODS:We used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Balistreri KS,Van Hook J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intravenous drug use has played a key role in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. Standardized surveillance of HIV infection among intravenous drug users (IVDUs) is needed to determine HIV prevalence rates, to monitor changes in prevalence over time, and to describe behaviors associated with HIV...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Allen DM,Onorato IM,Green TA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Reducing the widespread use of physical restraints in nursing homes is a primary goal of the federal nursing home reforms enacted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. However, some nursing home operators assert that reducing restraint use could be prohibitively expensive, costing payors ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Phillips CD,Hawes C,Fries BE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary arteries and aortas obtained at autopsy in six populations were examined microscopically. Two variants of atherosclerosis could be separately quantified by objective morphometry. These two variants, fibroplasia and atheronecrosis, were both found to increase with age and to correlate with each other from one ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tracy RE,Kissling GE,Oalmann MC

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interventions are needed to assist drug abusers in reducing risky drug and sexual behavior. METHODS:A randomized controlled trial compared three small-group AIDS educational interventions among 567 clients of a 21-day inpatient drug detoxification program: a two-session informational intervention, given eit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McCusker J,Stoddard AM,Zapka JG,Morrison CS,Zorn M,Lewis BF

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00