Abstract:
:A case of rubella in a male obstetrics-gynecology house staff member exposed 170 staff members and 11 prenatal patients to the clinical disease. Of 163 staff members tested within one week of exposure, 132 (80 per cent) were not susceptibles. Repeat titres three weeks later on 28 susceptibles remained negative. Of the 11 patients exposed, three were susceptible and none seroconverted.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
McLaughlin MC,Gold LHdoi
10.2105/ajph.69.3.287subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1979-03-01 00:00:00pages
287-9issue
3eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048journal_volume
69pub_type
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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abstract::Data System. The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is an ongoing state-based surveillance system of maternal behaviors, attitudes, and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. PRAMS is conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Reproductive Health in col...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304563
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:In February 2007, Public Health-Seattle and King County issued a press release describing a cluster of multiclass drug-resistant HIV cases among men who had sex with men (MSM). We evaluated the effect of the press release among MSM in the Seattle area. METHODS:We administered a rapid assessment survey at ve...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.90.8.1218
更新日期:2000-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302583
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:This study reports on Canadian mammography rates between 1990, when mass screening programs were launched, and 1994/95. METHODS:Mammography rates from 2 national surveys were compared according to the presence of a provincial screening program. RESULTS:Mammography rates among women aged 50 to 69 years (the...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.89.6.927
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We sought to describe the characteristics and sleep circumstances of infants who die suddenly and unexpectedly and to examine similarities and differences in risk factors among infants whose deaths are classified as resulting from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), suffocation, or undetermined causes. MET...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.76.suppl.76
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.89.6.887
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::From 1919 to 1952, approximately 20 000 individuals were sterilized in California's state institutions on the basis of eugenic laws that sought to control the reproductive capacity of people labeled unfit and defective. Using data from more than 19 000 sterilization recommendations processed by state institutions over...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302610
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300805
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Promoting population mental health and meeting the burdens of mental illness is a priority public health challenge of the 21st century. But too little attention has been placed on how to design and sustain the scope of strategies and commitments that credibly live up to the full breadth of that challenge. ThriveNYC is...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305040
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.095844
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.82.11.1553
更新日期:1992-11-01 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
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doi:10.2105/ajph.80.3.333
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abstract:OBJECTIVES:Whether or not spermicides can reduce the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission remains an important question for the control of heterosexual HIV transmission. The authors provide estimates from a reanalysis of one of the few observational studies on the efficacy of condoms and spermicides,...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.88.4.590
更新日期:1998-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.116103
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean imm...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.80.6.722
更新日期:1990-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1989-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:1989-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2003-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
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更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.063677
更新日期:2005-10-01 00:00:00