Fluorides, facts and fanatics: public health advocacy shouldn't stop at the courthouse door.

abstract：:The emergence in 1988 of ciprofloxacin-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in New York City was studied in nine hospitals and eight nursing homes. Of the 43 hospitalized patients studied, 21 were admitted from home, while nine of the 12 nursing home patients were transferred from a hospital. T...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Budnick LD,Schaefler S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the prevalence and causes of functional paralysis in the United States. METHODS:We used the 2013 US Paralysis Prevalence & Health Disparities Survey to estimate the prevalence of paralysis, its causes, associated sociodemographic characteristics, and health effects among this population. RESULT...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Armour BS,Courtney-Long EA,Fox MH,Fredine H,Cahill A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, US federal agencies governing research with human subjects and institutional review boards have taken a higher-profile path than ever before, both at home and internationally. This trend carries profound significance for US-based institutions and has implications also for the rest of the world. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Putney SB,Gruskin S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have summarized the evolution of the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), a prospective cohort study of 121 700 married registered nurses launched in 1976; NHS II, which began in 1989 and enrolled 116 430 nurses; and NHS3, which began in 2010 and has ongoing enrollment. Over 40 years, these studies have generated long-term,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bao Y,Bertoia ML,Lenart EB,Stampfer MJ,Willett WC,Speizer FE,Chavarro JE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intersectionality, an analytical approach rooted in Black feminist theory and praxis, has become more widely used in population health research. The majority of quantitative population health studies have used intersectionality as a theoretical framework to investigate how multiple social identities rather than social...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Agénor M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study was done to determine the direct impact of hip fracture on mortality in older people. Survival was compared between 211 hip fracture patients from a defined area and 201 non-hip fracture control subjects randomly selected from the same area. The mortality rate 1 year after hip fracture was 21.7%; 1-year...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Katelaris AG,Cumming RG

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low income families were interviewed to determine factors related to the number of family food servings per week. A multiple regression model indicated that participation in WIC (supplemental food program for women, infants and children), household size, and number of different income sources were associated with more...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Taren DL,Clark W,Chernesky M,Quirk E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To quantify changes in US health care spending required to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030 or 2040 and identify historical precedents for these changes.Methods. We analyzed multiple sources of historical and projected spending from 1970 through 2040. Parity was defined as the Organisation f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McCullough JM,Speer M,Magnan S,Fielding JE,Kindig D,Teutsch SM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the effect of worldwide oil price fluctuations on household fuel use and child respiratory health in Guatemala. METHODS:We regressed measures of household fuel use and child respiratory health on the average worldwide oil price and a rich set of covariates. We leveraged variation in oil prices o...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Venkataramani AS,Fried BJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of body fatness and leanness is examined in an ongoing prospective nutrition and growth study. Individual skinfold thicknesses, relative weights, weight gains, activity levels, and caloric intakes were examined at seven ages between 6 months and 9 years. Changes in body fatness in this group of childre...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shapiro LR,Crawford PB,Clark MJ,Pearson DL,Raz J,Huenemann RL

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To evaluate how lowering the blood lead level (BLL) intervention threshold affects childhood lead testing policy.Methods. We geocoded 4.19 million Illinois lead testing records (2001-2016) and linked to 2.37 million birth records (2001-2014), data on housing age, industrial emissions, and roads. We used mu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Abbasi A,Pals B,Gazze L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined agreement of administrative data with self-reported race/ethnicity and identified correlates of agreement. METHODS:We used Veterans Affairs administrative data and VA 1999 Large Health survey race/ethnicity data. RESULTS:Relatively low rates of agreement (approximately 60%) between data sources...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kressin NR,Chang BH,Hendricks A,Kazis LE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking histories, reported depth of inhalation, number of pipe and cigars (PC) smoked, serum thiocyanate (SCN) and expired air carbon monoxide (CO) levels were examined in PC male smokers enrolled in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). Serum SCN levels for all PC smokers were higher than fo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ockene JK,Pechacek TF,Vogt T,Svendsen K

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From mid-June through early August 1980, an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in Red Lodge, Montana affected approximately 780 persons, as estimated from attack rates of 33 per cent and 15 per cent in urban and rural residents, respectively. Giardia lamblia was identified in stool specimens from 51 per cent of 47 p...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Weniger BG,Blaser MJ,Gedrose J,Lippy EC,Juranek DD

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:California's Proposition 36 offers nonviolent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. We examined how treatment capacity changed to accommodate Proposition 36 clients and whether displacement of other clients was an unintended consequence. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hser YI,Teruya C,Brown AH,Huang D,Evans E,Anglin MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With attention to the field of public health ethics growing, significant time has been devoted to identifying a sound ethical justification for paternalistic interventions that override individual autonomy to prevent people from adopting unhealthy behaviors. Efforts focused on specifying the conditions that warrant pa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Buchanan DR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Understanding more about the psychological state of persons notified of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is critical for designing notification and counseling programs that will have the most positive effect. METHODS:The subjects were blood donors who had been notified of HIV infection by the Ne...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cleary PD,Van Devanter N,Rogers TF,Singer E,Shipton-Levy R,Steilen M,Stuart A,Avorn J,Pindyck J

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, advocates for increasing access to medical and oral health care have argued for expanding the scope of practice of dentists and physicians. Although this idea may have merit, significant legal and other barriers stand in the way of allowing dentists to do more primary health care, physicians to do mor...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Manski RJ,Hoffmann D,Rowthorn V

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to document the sequence and timing of milestones in the process of smoking cessation by prospectively studied cessation milestones among novice adolescent smokers. METHODS:Participants, aged 12 to 13 years in 1999 (n = 1293), completed self-report questionnaires every 3 months during the school y...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： O'Loughlin J,Gervais A,Dugas E,Meshefedjian G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals' on those individuals' consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. METHODS:Two hundred twenty-five participants were randomly assigned to receive hou...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tsemberis S,Gulcur L,Nakae M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978, 345 persons were killed in the United States in jumps and falls from non-crashing motor vehicles: 64 per cent fell; 15 per cent jumped; and it was not known whether the other 21 per cent jumped or fell. Two hundred and one people had been traveling on the exterior of vehicles, especially truck beds, and almos...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Williams AF,Goins SE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of a community's built environment influences the physical and mental health of its residents. Because few studies have investigated this relationship, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a workshop in May 2002 to help develop a scientific research agenda on these issues. Workshop particip...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dannenberg AL,Jackson RJ,Frumkin H,Schieber RA,Pratt M,Kochtitzky C,Tilson HH

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to determine the prevalence of at-risk drinking using varying alcohol use criteria. METHODS:A period prevalence survey was conducted in 22 primary care practices (n = 19372 adults). RESULTS:The frequency of at-risk alcohol use varied from 7.5% (World Health Organization criteria) to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fleming MF,Manwell LB,Barry KL,Johnson K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred ninety-eight patients treated in the emergency room for non-urgent complaints who stated that they had no regular source of primary medical care were referred to one of several medical care centers in the area. Overall, 34 per cent of such patients complied with the referral. Correlates of compliance wer...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Straus JH,Orr ST,Charney E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic treatment regimes are an emerging and important methodological area in health research, particularly in the management of chronic health conditions. This paradigm encompasses the ideological shift in research from the acute care model to the chronic care model. It allows individualization of treatment (type, d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chakraborty B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding mental health issues faced by young homeless persons is instrumental to the development of successful targeted interventions. No systematic review of recent published literature on psychopathology in this group has been completed. We conducted a systematic review of published research examining the preva...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hodgson KJ,Shelton KH,van den Bree MB,Los FJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared faculty promotion rates by race/ethnicity across US academic medical centers. METHODS:We used the Association of American Medical College's 1983 through 2000 faculty roster data to estimate median institution-specific promotion rates for assistant professor to associate professor and for associa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nunez-Smith M,Ciarleglio MM,Sandoval-Schaefer T,Elumn J,Castillo-Page L,Peduzzi P,Bradley EH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalences of anemia were estimated by two methods for 742 Black and 3,074 White nonpregnant women of childbearing age drawn from a large probability sample of the United States civilian noninstitutionalized population (NHANES I). One method defines the prevalence of anemia as the proportion of women with hemoglobin ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meyers LD,Habicht JP,Johnson CL,Brownie C

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to elucidate changes in attitudes, experiences, readiness, and confidence levels of medical residents to perform screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) and factors that moderate these changes. METHODS:A cohort of 121 medical residents received an educa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marshall VJ,McLaurin-Jones TL,Kalu N,Kwagyan J,Scott DM,Cain G,Greene W,Adenuga B,Taylor RE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1985, a measles outbreak involved 14 students and non-student contacts in Michigan. Eight transmissions occurred at university medical facilities; five of these were likely airborne transmissions. Medical students and a medical resident were involved in the outbreak's propagation. Health care providers need to be i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sienko DG,Friedman C,McGee HB,Allen MJ,Simonsen WF,Wentworth BB,Shope TC,Orenstein WA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00