Trends of coronary heart disease among men of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii.

abstract：:A study was carried out in a rural area of Asir region in Southwest of Saudi Arabia where information on the types of domestic water supply and sociodemography in relation to intestinal protozoal infections were obtained from 1417 inhabitants (81.4% of the total) of nine villages. Stool samples were collected from the...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Omar MS,Mahfouz AA,Abdel Moneim M

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community health fair has been used informally as a way of offering health promotion, education, and screening services onsite to underserved and hard to reach populations such as the newcomers. To utilize an annual health fair for the assessment of the overall perception of health status of newcomers in relation to t...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Salman K,Turek JM,Donovan C

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical services provided to vacationers and employees in Yellowstone National Park were reviewed for the years 1975 through 1977. Both ambulatory and inpatient data were obtained, including diagnoses, place of residence, medications prescribed, and methods of payment. The types of problems and modes of treatment did ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Woolley FR,Wright DD,Patrick K,Kronhaus A,Ford M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free clinics across the country provide free or reduced fee healthcare to individuals who lack access to primary care and are socio-economically disadvantaged. This study examined perceived health status among diabetic and non-diabetic free clinic patients and family members of the patients. Diabetes self-efficacy amo...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kamimura A,Christensen N,Myers K,Nourian MM,Ashby J,Greenwood JL,Reel JJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the cooperation between modern and traditional medicine (TM) is increasingly promoted in health care system of nationwide, there remains many barriers. In this study, we examined the barriers and possible ways of promoting cooperation between traditional healers and modern health system. Ethnographic method i...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Suwankhong D,Liamputtong P,Runbold B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients have a rudimentary knowledge of their body's anatomy and functioning. In a clinical setting, deficits in patient understanding can lead to miscommunication affecting patient care and satisfaction. Hence, this study aims to estimate a baseline of patient knowledge regarding pelvic anatomy and to assess th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Reid JA,Templeman CL,Groneberg DA,Brueggmann D,Jaque JM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation for Celebremos La Salud, a community randomized trial of Hispanic cancer prevention found no differences in mammography screening rates between intervention and control communities. The goal of the present study was to determine reasons for the intervention's lack of effectiveness. In the first aim, we ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Tejeda S,Thompson B,Coronado GD,Heagerty PJ,Martin DP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-care has become a topic of widespread interest in recent years. However, few studies of the content and methods of self-care are available to inform health education program design. The present study identified common illnesses that were reported by 258 western university students and how those illnesses were typ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Green KE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-study of 83 articles published from 1981 to 2016 was conducted on Hispanics access to health care in the US. Few of these studies have included acculturation and even fewer the role of social capital as important factors that impact healthcare access for this population. Among those that do include these two fa...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rodriguez-Alcalá ME,Qin H,Jeanetta S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motives may be an important influence for substance use among youth. The goal of this research was to study the relation of social, self-enhancement, boredom relief and affect regulation motives to smoking and drinking in a sample of Eastern European high school students and to examine variation in the effects of thes...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Piko BF,Varga S,Wills TA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though smokeless tobacco (SLT) use has decreased in many communities, concern for American Indian (AI) SLT use remains, as this population continues to be disproportionally affected by SLT-related diseases. Tobacco has cultural significance to many AI tribes, therefore tobacco cessation messages portraying tobacco as ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rollins K,Lewis C,Goeckner R,Pacheco J,Smith TE,Hale J,Daley SM,Choi WS,Daley CM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is aimed at investigating the factors determining the timing of first prenatal care (PNC) visit and the number of PNC visits among a national representative sample of Nepali women. Data was drawn from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey on women age 15-49 years old who had delivery within three yea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Neupane S,Doku DT

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although successful utilization of medical and preventive care by members of the non-US born communities is an important public health concern, our knowledge regarding health practices of different ethnic subgroups is limited. In the present study, participants of the health fairs organized during South Asian cultural...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Mehrotra N,Gaur S,Petrova A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of data obtained through a survey of 415 men in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Rochester, New York, indicates that the transfer of testicular self-examination (TSE) skills from the medical community to the public has been relatively ineffective. Only two of every 100 respondents reported monthly self-examination...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sheley JP,Kinchen EW,Morgan DH,Gordon DF

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of reviewing drug utilization provides a surveillance system for monitoring the efficiency of drug distribution and drug consumption; it also provides a data base for the interpretation of the frequency of adverse drug reactions and helps to identify gaps in the delivery of a crucial aspect of health serv...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Stolley PD

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local health departments (LHDs) are an important source for screening and treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in rural communities. Yet, they oftentimes lack the resources needed to adequately assess and monitor these conditions. The purpose of this study was to (1) explore how rural LHDs assess and monitor ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Paschal AM,Oler-Manske J,Hsiao T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In terms of less access to private sources of care (as distinguished from hospital-public clinics) and longer travel time to usual source of care, poverty areas are at a disadvantage. Within the ten areas studied, the poor have less access than the nonpoor, with access differences even greater between the races than b...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Okada LM,Sparer G

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant differences in adult obesity prevalence exist between rural and urban settings throughout the world. Here, we estimate and evaluate the prevalence of adult obesity in rural Independent Samoa, rural American Samoa, and urban American Samoa in 2009. Volunteers over the age of 40 years were weighed and measur...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Barnes SS,O'Carroll DC,Sumida L,Shafer LA,Yamada S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) disclose their serostatus to their sexual partners and take steps to protect their partners from HIV. Prior research indicates that some PLWHA portray themselves to their sexual partners as HIV-negative or otherwise misrepresent their HIV status. The aim of this study was to do...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Benotsch EG,Rodríguez VM,Hood K,Lance SP,Green M,Martin AM,Thrun M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While first-wave Vietnamese immigrants adapted well to life in the United States, subsequent immigrants have had greater adjustment difficulties, including more evidence of psychological distress. This study aimed to analyze psychosocial adaptation differences among three generations of recent Vietnamese immigrants, a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Shapiro J,Douglas K,de la Rocha O,Radecki S,Vu C,Dinh T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy and the events surrounding it are generally viewed as feminine issues exclusively for women. In sub-Saharan Africa, believing that pregnancy and the events that follow are guided by nature, a lot of superstition is attributed in the event of complications, which result in poor maternal outcomes. Maternal mor...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nwakwuo GC,Oshonwoh FE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general introduction of this article is as follows: Reliable and timely health information is an essential foundation of public health action and health systems strengthening, both nationally and internationally (Aqil et al. in Health Policy Plan 24(3): 217-228, 2009; Bradshaw et al. in initial burden of disease es...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Otieno CF,Kaseje D,Ochieng' BM,Githae MN

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess factors that influence mammography use among volunteer community health workers (CHWs). Data trends indicate lower mammography rates among minority and low-income women. Although CHW interventions have been shown to promote mammography use among this population, training strateg...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kratzke C,Garzon L,Lombard J,Karlowicz K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is the leading cause of death for Korean Americans (KAs). Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly occurring cancer among KA women, and its rate has been rapidly increasing. Low BC screening rates for KAs puts them at greater risk for late-stage breast cancer. We conducted a systematic review of the published li...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Oh KM,Taylor KL,Jacobsen KH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite availability of a safe, effective vaccination, uptake and completion rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination remain low in the United States. This is particularly true in the southeast, which also sees some of the highest rates of HPV-associated (HPVa) cancers. We aimed to identify areas in Alabama in ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Vickers M,Green CL,Lee HY,Pierce JY,Daniel CL

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A curriculum in community and family medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, planned to include a primary care preceptorship as an integral unit, is described. The curriculum has been planned to allow for repeated and increasing exposure of medical students during their undergraduate years to a var...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Burke WM,Lukes JJ,Mansell E

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreasing health disparities must increase access to care, improve health education and ease navigating the health care system. Community Health Workers (CHW) take on these tasks in professional and culturally competent manners. The Healthy Families Brooklyn (HFB) Program serves residents in two public housing develo...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Brown N,Vaughn NA,Lin AJ,Browne R,White M,Smith P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV prevalence and socio-demographic data were analyzed to assess the alignment of CDC-funded HIV testing activity in 2012 with its high-impact prevention approach. CDC-funded HIV-testing was conducted in counties with high HIV prevalence and in places potentially more affected by HIV as measured by urbanicity, percen...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hayek S,Heitgerd JL,Williams WO,Krueger AL,Dietz PM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS:With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens just started to get back...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： He S,Chen S,Kong L,Liu W

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a statewide public health approach to strengthen diabetes care; evaluates diabetes-related processes of care for individuals enrolled in the Michigan Diabetes Outreach Network (MDON) program; and, examines MDON in the context of priorities for diabetes care and public health policy. Organizational...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Krein SL,Klamerus ML

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00