Abstract:
:Eighteen children, ages 4 to 6 years, with known exposure to polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) in utero and/or through breast milk were administered developmental tests. These same children had exhibited low scores on a partial developmental assessment two years earlier. Current results were compared to normative test data. Findings showed: 1) PBB cohort children are within the normal range in all areas assessed; 2) An inverse relationship is noted between PBB fat level and scores on some developmental tasks. The importance of this finding for later development is unclear and, thus will bear future monitoring.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Schwartz EM,Rae WAdoi
10.2105/ajph.73.3.277subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-03-01 00:00:00pages
277-81issue
3eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048journal_volume
73pub_type
杂志文章abstract::The case of Hanna Porn affords an opportunity to examine how the laws that led to the abolition of midwifery in Massachusetts evolved and were applied to the midwife whose case set the state legal precedent. Mrs Porn served primarily a Finnish-Swedish clientele of wives of laborers. The outcomes of the births she atte...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.84.6.1022
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The association of life events and mental health impairment was studied in a community-based population of the elderly (n = 986). A crude estimate of the relative risk for mental health impairment given life events larger than or equal to 150 (as measured by the Schedule of Recent Events) was 2.14. A relative risk of ...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.70.11.1174
更新日期:1980-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We analyzed how ease of geographic access to emergency departments (EDs), defined as driving time to the closest ED, changed between 2001 and 2005, and whether access deterioration was more likely to occur in vulnerable communities. METHODS:We classified communities on the basis of American Hospital Associa...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.175828
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We assessed the impact of changes in dimensions of the psychosocial work environment on risk of depression in a longitudinal cohort of Canadian workers who were free of depression when work conditions were initially reported. METHODS:Using a sample (n = 3735) from the Canadian National Population Health Sur...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300376
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Estimates from the National Study of the Incidence and Severity of Child Abuse and Neglect suggest that hospitals recognized over 77,000 cases of child abuse between May 3, 1979, and April 30, 1980. Compared to other agencies in the sample, hospitals identified children who were younger, Black, lived in urban areas, a...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.75.1.56
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Washington State hospitals were queried about the fate of 507 infants born in 1978-79 for whom no linked death certificate existed. Only ten previously unregistered deaths were discovered, raising mortality for this group by 2.5 per cent. In addition, 13 previously unmatched death records were linked to birth records,...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.72.7.740
更新日期:1982-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study sought to estimate rates of cervical cancer and Papanicolaou testing among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in Manitoba, Canada. METHODS:Data were derived through linking of administrative databases. RESULTS:In comparison with non-Aboriginal women, Aboriginal women had 1.8 and 3.6 times the a...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.90.9.1466
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Much research has documented that youthful substance use typically follows a sequence starting with use of alcohol or tobacco or both and potentially proceeding to marijuana and then hard drug use. This study explicitly examined the probabilities of progression through each stage and their covariates. METHO...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.91.2.225
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This report documents the effect of not having had a Papanicolaou (Pap) test on survival with uterine cervical squamous carcinoma. METHODS:Data were derived from Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans Tumor Registry reports for 1984-1987 and 1996. RESULTS:During the 5 study years, 101 of 213 women (4...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.90.4.620
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:How do health care professionals assess the care of hospital patients near the end of life? Are physicians and nurses aware of and in agreement with national recommendations regarding patients' rights to forgo life-sustaining medical treatments and to receive adequate pain control? METHODS:We surveyed 687 p...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.83.1.14
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We examined the effects of market income inequality (income inequality before taxes and transfers) and income redistribution via taxes and transfers on inequality in longevity. METHODS:We used life tables to compute Gini coefficients of longevity inequality for all individuals and for individuals who surviv...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302849
更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We examined HIV diagnosis rates and disease progression among men who have sex with men (MSM) according to race/ethnicity and age. METHODS:Using data obtained from the national HIV/AIDS surveillance system, we examined trends in HIV diagnosis rates for 2001 through 2004 using Poisson regression. We used a s...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.087551
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study examined an outbreak of hepatitis A in eastern Sydney during 1991-1992. METHODS:Data were based on cases of hepatitis A in eastern Sydney residents reported from January 1991 to October 1992. RESULTS:Five hundred seventy cases of hepatitis A were reported. Of these, 515 (90%) occurred in male pa...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.87.12.2039
更新日期:1997-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Team conducted a systematic review of US-based HIV behavioral intervention research literature from 2000 through 2004 to identify interventions demonstrating best evidence of efficacy for reducing HIV risk. METHODS:Stand...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.076182
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A nine-year representative, longitudinal study of 1,598 urban elderly shows that two to eight times as many impaired or disabled are cared for in the community as in institutions. Younger age, male gender, better income, and living with others, especially children, favor continuing care in the home. ...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.81.9.1207
更新日期:1991-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We present the first reported cases of individuals with mental retardation who have subsequently become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The implications of this finding for agencies which provide services to persons with mental retardation are described. Where conflicts arise, the authors propose tha...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.79.4.491
更新日期:1989-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study determined the validity of self-reported data on selected health insurance characteristics. METHODS:We obtained telephone survey data on the presence of health insurance, source of insurance, length of time insured, and type of insurance (managed care or fee-for-service) from a random sample of 3...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.90.6.924
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Cocaine use among youths as measured by several annual surveys was most popular from about 1979 to 1986, after which it declined. This study carefully examines the nature of the decline by focusing on microdata for youthful arrestees in Manhattan. METHODS:Multiple statistical analyses examine whether the de...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.84.8.1250
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The prevalence of antibody to LAV/HTLV-III among homosexual men attending a community clinic and a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Seattle, Washington in early 1985 was 42 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively. Seropositivity was apparently not related to age or number of sexual partners. The high prevalence o...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.76.5.564
更新日期:1986-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Strategies for control of Giardia lamblia in day care differ in numbers of children treated and in costs to parents and day care operators. The effectiveness of these strategies has not been systematically evaluated. METHODS:We conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing three strategies f...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/ajph.81.8.1001
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and whether its activities infri...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.91.11.1776
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether local health departments (LHDs) were conducting obesity prevention programs and diabetes screening programs, and we examined associations between LHD characteristics and whether they conducted these programs. METHODS:We used the 2005 National Profile of Local Health Departments to conduc...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.168831
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::In Washington County, Maryland, ownership of cats and/or dogs was compared among 48 residents who committed suicide in the years 1975-83 and 96 living controls matched to the suicides by race, sex, and date of birth. Another comparison used as controls persons of same race, sex, and age who died of causes other than s...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.75.10.1223
更新日期:1985-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We examined medically treated injuries among US workers with disability. METHODS:Using 2006-2010 National Health Interview Survey data, we compared 3-month rates of nonoccupational and occupational injuries to workers with disability (n = 7729) and without disability (n = 175 947). We fitted multivariable l...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300888
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We assessed the distribution of immunization records among 3 health care delivery sectors and the impact of a regional immunization registry on "up to date" rates. METHODS:Immunization registry records in 2 regions were categorized as having originated in private practices, community health centers, or publ...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.94.6.967
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This field study tested the feasibility and benefits of a program to promote 6 targeted parental behaviors to prevent obesity in children served by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). METHODS:Two WIC sites participated in a nonrandomized, controlled 1-year pros...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.94.9.1490
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Affirmative action programs of all types are under attack legally and politically. Although medical schools have not been specifically targeted, their affirmative action programs, like others in higher education, are potentially in danger. This article examines the current legal status of affirmative action in medical...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.89.8.1256
更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study was undertaken to determine the relative efficacy of home visitation with and without husband participation on the use of modern contraception in Ethiopia. METHODS:A randomized field trial of a family planning education intervention using home visitation with and without husband participation was...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/ajph.83.11.1567
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::This prospective study was done in a health maintenance organization colorectal cancer screening program to determine whether 166 persons found to have abnormal fecal occult blood test results typically underwent complete diagnostic evaluation (i.e., either colonoscopy or barium enema x-ray plus flexible sigmoidoscopy...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.83.11.1620
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study examined two major methadone treatment factors, visit frequency and methadone dose, posited to be important in reducing intravenous drug use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. METHODS:One hundred fifty opiate-dependent subjects randomly assigned to four groups received 50 or 80 ...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/ajph.88.1.34
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00