The health impact of restricting public funds for abortion. October 10, 1977--June 10, 1978.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the prevalence of antituberculosis drug resistance among children with tuberculosis (TB) in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. METHODS:Drug susceptibility testing for isoniazid and rifampin was prospectively done on all children with culture-confirmed TB at Tygerberg Children's Hospital,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schaaf HS,Marais BJ,Hesseling AC,Brittle W,Donald PR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug overdose is an important, yet an inadequately understood, public health problem. Global attention to unintentional drug overdose has been limited by comparison with the scope of the problem. There has been a substantial increase in drug overdose incidence and prevalence in several countries worldwide ov...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Martins SS,Sampson L,Cerdá M,Galea S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Suffering from waning demand, poor quality, and reform efforts enabling veterans to "vote with their feet" and leave, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system transformed itself through a series of substantive changes. We examined the evolution of primary care changes underlying VA's transf...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yano EM,Simon BF,Lanto AB,Rubenstein LV

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We describe behavioral health diagnoses and community release patterns among adult male and female inmates in New Jersey prisons and assess their implications for correctional health care and community reentry. METHODS:We used clinical and classification data on a census of "special needs" inmates (those wi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Blitz CL,Wolff N,Pan KY,Pogorzelski W

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social work education plays a critical role in preparing social workers to lead efforts that improve health. Because of the dynamic health care landscape, schools of social work must educate students to facilitate health care system improvements, enhance population health, and reduce medical costs. We reviewed the exi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Browne T,Keefe RH,Ruth BJ,Cox H,Maramaldi P,Rishel C,Rountree M,Zlotnik J,Marshall J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In suicidal behavior emergency room admissions of 13- to 17-year olds at the Brockton Hospital (Massachusetts), females predominated over males by almost two to one. For subclassification of life-threatening behaviors, frequency was about the same for males and females, but for suicide attempts and suicide gestures, f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Deykin EY,Perlow R,McNamarra J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comments on a paper of physicians' attitudes toward abortion are presented. The reasons for approval of abortion which show about 80% citing medical or psychiatric and only 60% citing social reasons or a woman's right to do with her body what she wants support the belief in the sexist attitudes of physicians. Disbel...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Solomon K

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of social sciences, there has been a renewed interest in studying prejudice and discrimination as stressors and assessing their impact on various health outcomes. This raises a need for theoretically based and psychometrically sound measures of prejudice. As researchers approach this task, there are sever...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meyer IH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses claims data from a universal health care system to describe physicians' hospitalization styles after adjusting for case-mix characteristics of their primary patients. Patients were uniquely assigned to that physician (general or family practitioners, internist, general surgeon, or obstetrician/gynecolo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Roos NP,Flowerdew G,Wajda A,Tate RB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postabortion care providers who breach patient confidentiality endanger women's health and violate ethics. A 1998 abortion ban in El Salvador likely spurred an increase in the number of women investigated, because many women were reported to legal authorities by health care providers. Having analyzed safeguards of con...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McNaughton HL,Mitchell EM,Hernandez EG,Padilla K,Blandon MM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tested a series of self-help booklets designed to prevent postpartum smoking relapse. METHODS:We recruited 700 women in months 4 through 8 of pregnancy, who quit smoking for their pregnancy. We randomized the women to receive either (1) 10 Forever Free for Baby and Me (FFB) relapse prevention booklets, m...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Brandon TH,Simmons VN,Meade CD,Quinn GP,Lopez Khoury EN,Sutton SK,Lee JH

更新日期：2012-11-01 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

authors： Holmquist ND

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:I studied the extent to which maternal deaths are underreported on death certificates. METHODS:We collected data on maternal deaths from death certificates, linkage of death certificates with birth and fetal death records, and review of medical examiner records. RESULTS:Thirty-eight percent of maternal dea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Horon IL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to test the efficacy of an intervention that was designed to promote social inclusion and commitment to education, in reducing among students health risk behaviors and improving emotional well-being. METHODS:The design was a cluster-randomized trial in 25 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Patton GC,Bond L,Carlin JB,Thomas L,Butler H,Glover S,Catalano R,Bowes G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the seroprevalence and investigate risk behaviors for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection in intravenous drug users in Los Angeles County, a stratified, random sample of 790 clients, enrolled in either methadone maintenance or detoxification programs, were studied. Thirteen study participants (1.8...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mascola L,Lieb L,Iwakoshi KA,McAllister D,Siminowski T,Giles M,Run G,Fannin SL,Strantz IH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed Florida pediatric gonococcal (GC) infection surveillance data collected between 1984 and 1988. The incidence rate was 11 per 100,000 per year for the age group 1 month through 9 years. Incidence rates were higher for females, other-than-Whites, and residents of rural counties than for males, Whites, and re...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Desenclos JC,Garrity D,Wroten J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined risk factors for injuries to nursing assistants from assaults by nursing home residents at both the individual and the organizational level. METHODS:We analyzed data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey that were linked to facility information from the 2004 National Nursing Home Surve...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tak S,Sweeney MH,Alterman T,Baron S,Calvert GM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accepted wisdom about the US overdose crisis singles out prescribing as the causative vector. Although drug supply is a key factor, we posit that the crisis is fundamentally fueled by economic and social upheaval, its etiology closely linked to the role of opioids as a refuge from physical and psychological trauma...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dasgupta N,Beletsky L,Ciccarone D

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tested a structural model of relations among self-reported childhood maltreatment, alcohol and other drug abuse and dependence symptoms, and sexual risk behavior in a sample of adolescents receiving outpatient treatment of substance use problems. METHODS:Structured interviews were administered to an ethn...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Oshri A,Tubman JG,Burnette ML

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series completion and examined predictors of completion among adolescents and young adults in a large family planning network. METHODS:Our retrospective cohort study of vaccine completion within 12 months and time to completion used electronic health record da...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Simons HR,Unger ZD,Lopez PM,Kohn JE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence and factors associated with physical and nonphysical violence in a sample of general practitioners (GPs). METHODS:We used a cross-sectional design to collect data from December 2014 to March 2015 with a structured self-administered questionnaire from 1015 GPs in Hubei Province, Cent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gan Y,Li L,Jiang H,Lu K,Yan S,Cao S,Fu W,Hu S,Qiao Y,Yang T,Wang C,Chen Y,Yang Y,Li H,Fang P,Yin X,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidia that were infective for infant mice were subjected to various moist heat treatments and subsequently tested in infant mice for infectivity. Warming from 9 degrees C to 55 degrees C over a period of 15 to 20 minutes neutralized infectivity in calf feces, cecal contents, and ileal scrapings. Inocula held ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Anderson BC

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:The authors measured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (DDE) in maternal serum, cord blood, placenta, and serial samples of breast milk from 868 women. Almost all samples of breast milk showed detectable levels of both chemicals. Overall, values for DDE in this study are within the r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rogan WJ,Gladen BC,McKinney JD,Carreras N,Hardy P,Thullen J,Tingelstad J,Tully M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among men who have sex with men. METHODS:At the baseline visit of an HIV study among men who have sex with men, we asked about HBV vaccination status and tested for HBV markers. RESULTS:Of 625 subjects, 48% h...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Remis RS,Dufour A,Alary M,Vincelette J,Otis J,Mâsse B,Turmel B,LeClerc R,Parent R,Lavoie R

更新日期：2000-10-01 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:We evaluated the impact of school-based health centers-which provide essential health care for students by aiming to eliminate many access barriers-on health care access disparities and conducted a cost-benefit analysis. METHODS:We employed a longitudinal quasi-experimental repeated-measures design. Primary...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Guo JJ,Wade TJ,Pan W,Keller KN

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred seventy-two (63%) of 590 enrollees in nine smoking cessation workshops held over a five-year period responded to a follow-up survey. Outcome data were collected retrospectively for six-month intervals from workshop to follow-up. Forty nine per cent of all enrollees graduated, and 56% of the respondents q...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Evans D,Lane DS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies. METHODS:We calculated correlations between rates of incarceration in state prisons and county jails and rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies for each of the 1...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thomas JC,Torrone E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social, political, and economic disruptions caused by natural and human-caused public health emergencies have catalyzed public health efforts to expand the scope of biosurveillance and increase the timeliness, quality, and comprehensiveness of disease detection, alerting, response, and prediction. Unfortunately, effor...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Khan AS,Fleischauer A,Casani J,Groseclose SL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00