Life-style and death patterns of the Missouri RLDS church members.

abstract：:This paper examines the relative importance of various independent variables for predicting five separate measures of physician utilization in a rural community. The independent variables include socioeconomic, demographic, attitudinal, and health status factors. The results are comparable to those of national studies...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Luft HS,Hershey JC,Morrell J

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have indicated that cigarette smokers have more occupational accidents and injuries and use more sick time and health benefits than nonsmokers, thereby producing sizeable costs for employers. However, they usually have not controlled for other possible sources of these costs. We analyzed occupational...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ryan J,Zwerling C,Orav EJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United States' international ranking for infant mortality slipped from 19th in the 1980s to 27th in 1997. This slippage may be related to the segregation of priorities that occurred early in the 1990s, when national concern was diverted from infant mortality to minority health. To rekindle concern about infant mor...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hogue CJ,Vasquez C

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The State-Wide Rural Well-Water Survey was conducted between April 1988 and June 1989. About 18% of Iowa's private, rural drinking-water wells contain nitrate above the recommended health advisory level (levels of NO3-N greater than 10 mg/L); 37% of the wells have levels greater than 3 mg/L, typically considered indic...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kross BC,Hallberg GR,Bruner DR,Cherryholmes K,Johnson JK

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the effect of a weight gain prevention intervention (Shape Program) on depression among socioeconomically disadvantaged overweight and obese Black women. METHODS:Between 2009 and 2012, we conducted a randomized trial comparing a 12-month electronic health-based weight gain prevention interventi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Steinberg DM,Askew S,Lanpher MG,Foley PB,Levine EL,Bennett GG

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We analyzed smoking survey data across communities in Chicago, Ill, to explore community-level variations in smoking behavior. METHODS:We conducted a health survey of 6 racially and ethnically diverse Chicago communities during 2002-2003. The survey included questions about current smoking, smoking history,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dell JL,Whitman S,Shah AM,Silva A,Ansell D

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to examine relationships between income and mortality, focusing on the predictive utility of single-year and multiyear measures of income, the shape of the income gradient in mortality, trends in this gradient over time, the impact of income change on mortality, and the joint effect...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McDonough P,Duncan GJ,Williams D,House J

更新日期：1997-09-01 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 tested the efficacy of a combined pharmacologic and behavioral smoking cessation intervention among women in a state prison in the southern United States. METHODS:The study design was a randomized controlled trial with a 6-month waitlist control group. The intervention was a 10-week group intervention co...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cropsey K,Eldridge G,Weaver M,Villalobos G,Stitzer M,Best A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of personal and job characteristics on the time to employment loss after diagnosis of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to examine how job loss affects patients' income. METHODS:Data were collected from 305 patients with AIDS at three sit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Massagli MP,Weissman JS,Seage GR 3rd,Epstein AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secular changes in height and weight measurements were examined in five- to 14-year-olds from 1973 to 1984. The age-sex specific 85th percentile was used to classify persons as overweight (based on ponderal index; kg/m3). Secular increases in weight (2.5 kg), and ponderosity (0.5-0.7 kg/m3) were found. Gains in ponder...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shear CL,Freedman DS,Burke GL,Harsha DW,Webber LS,Berenson GS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to analyze overall and cause-specific mortality among injection drug users in Rome. METHODS:A cohort of 4200 injection drug users was enrolled in drug treatment centers from 1980 through 1988 and followed up until December 1992. RESULTS:The age-adjusted mortality rate from all ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davoli M,Perucci CA,Rapiti E,Bargagli AM,D'Ippoliti D,Forastiere F,Abeni D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Profound and growing disparities exist in oral health among certain US populations. We sought here to determine the prevalence of oral health complaints among Harlem adults by measures of social class, as well as their access to oral health care. METHODS:A population-based survey of adults in Central Harlem...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zabos GP,Northridge ME,Ro MJ,Trinh C,Vaughan R,Moon Howard J,Lamster I,Bassett MT,Cohall AT

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Belmont Report principles focus on the well-being of the research subject, yet community-engaged investigators often eschew the role of subject for that of participant. We conducted semistructured interviews with 29 community and academic investigators working on 10 community-engaged studies. Interviews elicited persp...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bromley E,Mikesell L,Jones F,Khodyakov D

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the relationship between health care system and economic factors and early childhood caries (ECC) data availability and prevalence. METHODS:We estimated ECC data for 193 United Nations countries from studies published between 2007 and 2017. We obtained other variables from the World Health Organiz...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： El Tantawi M,Folayan MO,Mehaina M,Vukovic A,Castillo JL,Gaffar BO,Arheiam A,Al-Batayneh OB,Kemoli AM,Schroth RJ,Lee GHM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Greene JA,Herzberg D

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the public health literature, it is generally assumed that the perception of "targeting" as positive or negative by the targeted audience depends on the product or message being promoted. Smoking prevalence rates are high among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, but little is known about ho...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Smith EA,Thomson K,Offen N,Malone RE

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe, and provide a nomenclature and taxonomy for classifying, the economic sectors and functional assets that could be mobilized as partners in an intersectoral health system. METHODS:MAPSCorps (Meaningful, Active, Productive Science in Service to Community) employed local youths to conduct a census...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lindau ST,Vickery KD,Choi H,Makelarski J,Matthews A,Davis M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to quantify the potential health impact of selected medical and nonmedical policy changes within the United States. METHODS:Using data from the 1997-2000 National Health Interview Surveys (linked to mortality data through 2002) and the 1996-2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, we calculated age...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Muennig P,Fiscella K,Tancredi D,Franks P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares cases of paralytic poliomyelitis reported to the systems operated by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for reporting of adverse events associated with vaccination. Of the 118 cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Weibel RE,Benor DE

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we examine the impact of a school-based curriculum designed to reduce violence among urban sixth-grade students. METHODS:This study used a staggered implementation design in which sixth-graders in six middle schools were taught an 18-session violence-prevention curriculum during either the fa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Farrell AD,Meyer AL

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study reports the results of a behavior change intervention offered to women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection seen in an urban primary health care clinic. METHODS:Participants were 197 women randomly assigned to either an HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk re...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kelly JA,Murphy DA,Washington CD,Wilson TS,Koob JJ,Davis DR,Ledezma G,Davantes B

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied variation in the year of onset of ischemic heart disease mortality decline among regions (n = 39) in the Netherlands. Using loglinear regression methods, a quadratic regression model was fitted to the observed numbers of male deaths in each region in the period 1950-84, controlling for changes in age-struct...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mackenbach JP,Looman CW,Kunst AE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This research used food frequency data to investigate dietary patterns associated with fat intake. METHODS:Data from the 1987 National Health Interview Survey of 20,143 adults were used to determine correlations between fat (adjusted for kilocalories) and both nutrient and food group intakes. Median food an...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Subar AF,Ziegler RG,Patterson BH,Ursin G,Graubard B

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated basic measures used to assess collaboration between colocated providers and to gauge the extent to which health centers practice integrated care. METHODS:We used the Assessment of Behavioral Health Services survey and the 2010 Uniform Data System to explore the elements of integrated care fo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jones EB,Ku L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intakes of nutrients implicated in cardiovascular disease were studied in 143 Black females, age 9 years. Dietary recall interviews were conducted and data compared with recommendations of several authoritative groups. A majority of subjects reported intakes: exceeding recommendations for total fat, saturated ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Steele MF,Gallagher ML

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. METHODS:We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005-2006 and 2010-2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code-lev...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cagney KA,Browning CR,Iveniuk J,English N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study sought to define, among sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic attendees, (1) patterns of sex partner selection, (2) relative risks for gonococcal or chlamydial infection associated with each mixing pattern, and (3) selected links and potential and actual bridge populations. METHODS:Mixing mat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Aral SO,Hughes JP,Stoner B,Whittington W,Handsfield HH,Anderson RM,Holmes KK

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the association of physical activity with serum lipoprotein(a) [La(a)] levels in individuals according to whether they had a family history of coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS:Lp(a) levels in 332 healthy Spanish men aged 20 to 60 years were measured. Physical activity and family hi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Martín S,Elosua R,Covas MI,Pavesi M,Vila J,Marrugat J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00