Excess Medical Care Spending: The Categories, Magnitude, and Opportunity Costs of Wasteful Spending in the United States.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the relationship between health care system and economic factors and early childhood caries (ECC) data availability and prevalence. METHODS:We estimated ECC data for 193 United Nations countries from studies published between 2007 and 2017. We obtained other variables from the World Health Organiz...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： El Tantawi M,Folayan MO,Mehaina M,Vukovic A,Castillo JL,Gaffar BO,Arheiam A,Al-Batayneh OB,Kemoli AM,Schroth RJ,Lee GHM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We modeled triple trajectories of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use from adolescence to adulthood as predictors of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). METHODS:We assessed urban African American and Puerto Rican participants (n = 816) in the Harlem Longitudinal De...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Brook JS,Lee JY,Rubenstone E,Brook DW,Finch SJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 47 states that participated in a 1983 survey of State Health Departments, 30 were found to have public health standards in place or started. Most states' standards emphasize the range of services to be provided, but substantial variations were found in how standards are formulated, adopted, and used by state an...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schaefer M,Abrantes A

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vital statistics show that a rise in incidence of endometrial cancer began in the mid-1960s on the West Coast of the United States. This rise was continuous and reached a peak in 1975. Elsewhere, incidence rates for endometrial cancer rose during the 1970s. It now seems evident that much of the rise in all areas of th...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jick H,Walker AM,Rothman KJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the effectiveness of an intervention targeting home food and activity environments to reduce energy intake and increase physical activity among overweight and obese patients from 3 community health centers in rural Georgia. METHODS:We conducted a randomized controlled trial (n = 349) from 2011 t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kegler MC,Haardörfer R,Alcantara IC,Gazmararian JA,Veluswamy JK,Hodge TL,Addison AR,Hotz JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the use of hearing health care services (hearing testing and hearing aids) by adults aged 21 to 84 years. METHODS:Hearing was tested and medical and hearing health histories were obtained as part of the Beaver Dam Offspring Study between 2005 and 2008 (n = 3285, mean age = 49 years). RESULTS:O...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nash SD,Cruickshanks KJ,Huang GH,Klein BE,Klein R,Nieto FJ,Tweed TS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual assault in the workplace and the related factors have not been well studied. Workers' compensation claims data were used to describe work-related sexual assaults in Washington State between 1980 and 1989. Sixty-three cases of work-related rape were identified during this study period. The occupations of the rap...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Alexander BH,Franklin GM,Wolf ME

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent changes in policymaking, such as the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, have ushered in a new era in community health partnerships. To investigate characteristics of effective collaboration between hospitals, their parent systems, and the public health community, with the support of majo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Scutchfield FD,Prybil L,Kelly AV,Mays GP

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper offers suggestions to adi the selection of appropriate instruments and data gathering methods for studies that require measures of personal health status applicable in general populations. Before selecting measures, the reason for studying health status must be identified. Next, definitional issues arise wh...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ware JE Jr,Brook RH,Davies AR,Lohr KN

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical consequences of HCV infection are increasing because the population with the highest prevalence of the infection, persons born between 1945 and 1965, is aging. As a result, health care expenditures are expected to increase. Now that a cure for HCV infection is the norm, a public health approach is necessa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Laraque F,Varma JK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral health needs are urgent in rural states. Creative, broad-based, and collaborative solutions can alleviate these needs. "Health commons" sites are enhanced, community-based, primary care safety net practices that include medical, behavioral, social, public, and oral health services. Successful intervention require...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Beetstra S,Derksen D,Ro M,Powell W,Fry DE,Kaufman A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to establish the prevalence of physical activity among smokers, whether or not physically active smokers were more likely to attempt cessation, and who these physically active smokers were. METHODS:We used logistic regression to contrast physically active and inactive smokers in a secondary data a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Deruiter WK,Faulkner G,Cairney J,Veldhuizen S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious diseases are responsible for approximately 25% of global mortality, especially in children aged younger than 5 years. Much of the burden of infectious diseases could be alleviated if appropriate mechanisms could be put in place to ensure access for all children to basic vaccines, regardless of geographical ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kieny MP,Excler JL,Girard M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Shulman HB,D'Angelo DV,Harrison L,Smith RA,Warner L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation changes associations between food insecurity, dietary quality, and weight among US adults. METHODS:We analyzed adult dietary intake data (n = 8333) from the 2003 to 2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Bivar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nguyen BT,Shuval K,Bertmann F,Yaroch AL

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the light of a possible link between stress and cancer promotion or progression, and of previously reported distress in residents near the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant, we attempted to evaluate the impact of the March 1979 accident on community cancer rates. METHODS:Proximity of residence ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hatch MC,Wallenstein S,Beyea J,Nieves JW,Susser M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effect of care coordination on asthma outcomes among children in underserved urban communities. METHODS:We enrolled children, most of whom had very poorly or not well-controlled asthma, in medical-social care coordination programs in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Janevic MR,Stoll S,Wilkin M,Song PX,Baptist A,Lara M,Ramos-Valencia G,Bryant-Stephens T,Persky V,Uyeda K,Lesch JK,Wang W,Malveaux FJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The child labor laws are intended to protect young workers from the most dangerous jobs. However, children who work on their parents' farms are exempt from these laws. We evaluated the potential for preventing the occurrence of farm injuries among children by changing the US Federal Child Labor Laws, Hazardou...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marlenga B,Berg RL,Linneman JG,Brison RJ,Pickett W

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a serosurvey of 133 embalmers in an urban area where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is prevalent. Although we found histories of needlesticks to be common, and the seropositivity rate of hepatitis B virus (HBV) (13%) was approximately twice that of a blood donor comparison group, HIV antibod...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Turner SB,Kunches LM,Gordon KF,Travers PH,Mueller NE

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public awareness of the risks of drinking during pregnancy was assessed in a Northwestern metropolitan county. Ninety per cent of respondents stated spontaneously that drinking might be harmful, and one-fourth of this group felt pregnant women should customarily abstain from alcohol. The balance of those who considere...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Little RE,Grathwohl HL,Streissguth AP,McIntyre C

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of feedback and financial incentives on physician compliance with cancer screening guidelines for women 50 years of age and older in a Medicaid health maintenance organization (HMO). METHODS:Half of 52 primary care sites received the intervention, which inc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hillman AL,Ripley K,Goldfarb N,Nuamah I,Weiner J,Lusk E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the prevalence and determinants of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmoking adolescents in 9 West African countries. METHODS:We conducted a pooled analysis with nationally representative 2006 to 2009 Global Youth Tobacco Survey data. We used descriptive statistics to determine the preva...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mamudu HM,Veeranki SP,John RM,Kioko DM,Ogwell Ouma AE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To assess the association between exposure to the US criminal legal system and well-being.Methods. We used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study of family incarceration experience (n = 2815), which includes measures of participants' own...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sundaresh R,Yi Y,Roy B,Riley C,Wildeman C,Wang EA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study, using data abstracted between 1983 and 1987 from a large perinatal registry, was conducted to explore the relationship between smoking and ectopic pregnancy. Women with ectopic pregnancy (n = 634) seen at University of Illinois Perinatal Network Hospitals were compared to women who were delivered...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Handler A,Davis F,Ferre C,Yeko T

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the home-facility and level of care changes, discharges, and deaths over a five-year period for 1,653 clients newly admitted in 1978 to a long-term care program in British Columbia, Canada. Five years after admission, of clients initially admitted to care at home (N = 1241), 34.3 per cent were still...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Stark AJ,Gutman GM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health risks from low-dose sparsely ionizing (low-LET) radiation have been the subject of continued debate. At present, quantitative estimates of risk are extremely uncertain due to the controversy surrounding both the dosimetry for A-bomb survivor data and the choice of mathematical models for extrapolating risk ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dreyer NA,Friedlander E

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether New York City's gun-related homicide rates in the 1990s were associated with a range of social determinants of homicide rates. METHODS:We used cross-sectional time-series data for 74 New York City police precincts from 1990 through 1999, and we estimated Bayesian hierarchical models with...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cerdá M,Messner SF,Tracy M,Vlahov D,Goldmann E,Tardiff KJ,Galea S

更新日期：2010-06-01 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:The World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe has undertaken a large study to evaluate housing and health in 7 European cities. METHODS:Survey tools were used to obtain information about housing and living conditions, health perception, and health status from a representative sample of the popu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bonnefoy XR,Braubach M,Moissonnier B,Monolbaev K,Röbbel N

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined whether the distinctive components of job control-decision authority, skill discretion, and predictability-were related to subsequent acute myocardial infarction (MI) events in a large population of initially heart disease-free industrial employees. METHODS:We prospectively examined the relation...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Väänänen A,Koskinen A,Joensuu M,Kivimäki M,Vahtera J,Kouvonen A,Jäppinen P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00