Predictors of Tick Exposure Risk-Reduction Behavior in Indiana.

abstract：:We evaluated access to and satisfaction with dental services for people living with HIV/AIDS receiving services from a dental case manager (DCM). People living with HIV/AIDS who had received dental services at two Community Dental Centers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were eligible to participate in a mailed, anonymous r...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lemay CA,Kretsedemas M,Graves JR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The care of 169 patients with sore throats was evaluated retrospectively to determine if the quality of medical care received in a teaching hospital's emergency room is associated with the degree of control managing physicians have over the medical care process. Diagnostic evaluation (temperature, throat and cervical ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Fletcher SW,Hamann C

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from Wave 1 of the National Survey of Personal Health Practices and Consequences were used to examine the association between perceived control over future health and 13 health behavior indices. Analyses were conducted within three strata of health status, defined by a cross-tabulation of subjective and functiona...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rakowski W

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the perceived health of the homeless, and to measure the effect of time homeless on perceived health status, after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and health conditions. The design was cross-sectional; the population was a representative sample of homeless in ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： White MC,Tulsky JP,Dawson C,Zolopa AR,Moss AR

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined disparities in lung cancer mortality rates among US men and women in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas from 1950 through 2007. Annual age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated for men and women in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, and differences in mortality rates were tested for s...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Singh GK,Siahpush M,Williams SD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Belgium and The Netherlands have fairly similar smoking prevalence patterns, but distinct tobacco control policies. It is our aim to use lung cancer death rates, especially among the youngest age groups (30-39 years), as indicators of past smoking behavioral patterns to evaluate recent tobacco control efforts in both ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Van Hemelrijck MJ,Kabir Z,Connolly GN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One in five maternal deaths are directly attributable to anaemia in the world. The World Health Organization recommends iron supplementation from the second trimester of pregnancy to 45 days after delivery. The aim of this study was to determine the compliance rate of iron-folate consumption and the factors associated...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Khanal V,Adhikari M,Karkee R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the success in implementing a major program involving a partnership between public and private providers to deliver primary health care services to the poor. In 1985, the 69th Texas Legislature passed the Primary Health Care Services Act, authorizing the Texas Department of Health to contract for o...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Begley CE,Aday LA,McCandless R

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women involved in the United States criminal justice system face a variety of challenges in maintaining their health. Histories of sexual abuse, early initiation of sex, and substance abuse are reflected in more negative reproductive health outcomes, including cervical cancer, than those found among non-incarcerated w...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kelly PJ,Hunter J,Daily EB,Ramaswamy M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) is a zoonosis resulting from the fetal transmission of the obligate intracellular parasite, T. gondii, transplacentally in pregnant women usually in the first trimester of pregnancy. This research consisted in the review of indexed articles made in the Ecuador in the period between the ye...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Velásquez Serra GC,Piloso Urgiles LI,Guerrero Cabredo BP,Chico Caballero MJ,Zambrano Zambrano SL,Yaguar Gutierrez EM,Barrera Reyes CG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban food swamps are typically situated in low-income, minority communities and contribute to overweight and obesity. Changing the food landscape in low income and underserved communities is one strategy to combat the negative health consequences associated with the lack of access to healthy food resources and an abu...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Ortega AN,Albert SL,Sharif MZ,Langellier BA,Garcia RE,Glik DC,Brookmeyer R,Chan-Golston AM,Friedlander S,Prelip ML

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sample of 13,500 adolescents (53% female and 47% male) who participated in all four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study used multilevel regression to examine the influence of early structural community adversity (as measured by rates of community poverty, single-parent hea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Wickrama KA,O'Neal CW,Lott RE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined program attendance and related outcomes for Compañeros en la Salud, a church-based culturally focused health promotion program specifically designed for low-acculturated, low-income Hispanic women. In this church-based study, the cancer prevention intervention was the major intervention group, and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lopez VA,Castro FG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated mortality and health services utilization in a prospective study of 630 older residents of a Southern California community. All participants were 65 years or older when initially evaluated in 1973-1975. In addition to being followed for vital status each year, participants were reinterviewed in 1984-1986 ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kaplan RM,Wingard DL,McPhillips JB,Williams-Jones D,Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand and promote physical activity on a newly constructed trail, the present study examined the demographic characteristics and physical activity behaviors of trail users; the demographic characteristics of trail users compared to the demographic profile Greenville County, South Carolina residents; tra...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Price AE,Reed JA,Muthukrishnan S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated a multidisciplinary care center, the Pike Market Clinic (PMC), whose physicians provide and coordinate inpatient and outpatient care for downtown low-income elderly in Seattle. We interviewed users of PMC and their near-neighbors with a 206 item questionnaire to compare their medical and social se...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Baldwin LM,Inui TS,Stenkamp S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Asians are the third largest Asian group in the US and among the fastest growing racial groups in New Jersey. Tobacco consumption among South Asians is characterized by several smoked and smokeless tobacco products indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. However, there is a paucity of research on tobacco use beha...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hrywna M,Jane Lewis M,Mukherjea A,Banerjee SC,Steinberg MB,Delnevo CD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine geographic and race/ethnic disparities in access to end of life care among elderly patients with lung cancer. The study sample consisted of 91,039 Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancer who died in 2008. The key outcome measures included the number of emergency room visits, ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nayar P,Qiu F,Watanabe-Galloway S,Boilesen E,Wang H,Lander L,Islam M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreasing health disparities must increase access to care, improve health education and ease navigating the health care system. Community Health Workers (CHW) take on these tasks in professional and culturally competent manners. The Healthy Families Brooklyn (HFB) Program serves residents in two public housing develo...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Brown N,Vaughn NA,Lin AJ,Browne R,White M,Smith P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of nine states in the Southern United States, hereafter referred to as the targeted states, has experienced particularly high HIV diagnosis and case fatality rates. To provide additional information about the HIV burden in this region, we used CDC HIV surveillance data to examine characteristics of individuals...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Reif S,Pence BW,Hall I,Hu X,Whetten K,Wilson E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the widening disparity between Whites and non-Whites for influenza vaccination rates, this study employed the Health Belief Model to examine these rates in five racial ethnic groups (White, Latino, African American, Filipino American, and Japanese American) to identify modifiable determinants of vaccination...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Chen JY,Fox SA,Cantrell CH,Stockdale SE,Kagawa-Singer M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodian immigrants are over 25 times more likely to have evidence of chronic hepatitis B infection than the general US population. Carriers of HBV are over 100 times more likely to develop liver cancer than non-carriers. Liver cancer incidence is the second leading cancer for Cambodian men and the sixth for Cambodia...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Burke NJ,Do HH,Talbot J,Sos C,Svy D,Taylor VM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of adolescent pregnancy is one which physicians, social workers, ministers, politicians, parents and other concerned citizens now recognize as being of paramount importance. The New York City Board of Education, in accepting its responsibility for helping young people to live healthy and fulfilling lives, ha...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Schecter S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the relationship between sun protection policies and practices at child care centers in Massachusetts. We hypothesized that centers with sun protection policies were more likely to have regular sun protection practices in place compared to centers without these policies. We conducted a telephone survey wit...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kenfield SA,Geller AC,Richter EM,Shuman S,O'Riordan D,Koh HK,Colditz GA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of HPV prophylactic vaccines, uptake has been suboptimal in the US. In the state of Hawaii, HPV vaccine coverage has decreased among females and remains low among males aged 13-17. The reasons for low uptake are unknown and may indicate the existence of critical barriers to HPV vaccination. Th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Tom A,Robinett H,Buenconsejo-Lum L,Soon R,Hamilton M,Francisco-Natanauan P,Cruz MR,Balajadia R,Hernandez BY

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the first year of an ongoing village health care and economic development project in the Krong Buk district of Dak Lak province in Vietnam's Central Highlands. The project serves 21 villages with a total population of just over 15,000. Most belong to ethnic minority groups. Physicians from the pro...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Barrett B,Ladinsky J,Volk N

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It appears that the specialty of preventive medicine is declining as a viable specialty, with inadequate numbers of practitioners and with a declining number of physicians entering residency training programs. However, additional data are needed to make rough estimates of the level of need in the future. Even without ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Scutchfield FD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variability of heat stress illness (HSI) by urbanicity and climate region has rarely been considered in previous HSI studies. We investigated temporal and geographic trends in HSI emergency department (ED) visits in CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking) states for 2005-2010. We obtained county-le...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Fechter-Leggett ED,Vaidyanathan A,Choudhary E

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acceptance of age-appropriate cancer screening as an integral part of primary care has grown among physicians over the past decade. We conducted a mailed survey of all primary care physicians in New Mexico in order to better understand their current cancer screening practices. We found a high rate of self-reported...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Herman CJ,Hoffman RM,Altobelli KK

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children's physical activity (PA) may be determined, in part, by environmental influences such as access to diverse and safe places to play. As part of the development of a community-based PA program, a PA asset assessment was conducted in two low-income urban neighborhoods that support elementary schools serving mino...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： DeBate RD,Koby EJ,Looney TE,Trainor JK,Zwald ML,Bryant CA,McDermott RJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00