A Public Health Approach to Hepatitis C in an Urban Setting.

abstract：:Public health is usually enacted through public policies, necessitating that the public engage in debates that, ideally, are grounded in solid scientific findings. Mistrust in science, however, has compromised the possibility of deriving sound policy from such debates, partially owing to justified concerns regarding u...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Camargo K Jr,Grant R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of international health has typically been assessed from the standpoint of central institutions (international health organizations, foundations, and development agencies) or of one-way diffusion and influence from developed to developing countries. To deepen understanding of how the international health...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Birn AE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared admission rates, outcomes, and performance of the CURB-65 mortality prediction score of homeless patients and nonhomeless patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). METHODS:We compared homeless (n = 172) and nonhomeless (n = 1897) patients presenting to a Salt Lake City, Utah, emergency d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jones B,Gundlapalli AV,Jones JP,Brown SM,Dean NC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologists have expressed concern about constraints upon the conduct of epidemiological research imposed by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), attorneys, and both institutional and individual health services providers. The epidemiologists assert that these constraints, not necessarily required by law or sound po...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hershey N

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight inner city mothers of third and fourth grade children in three racial groups--white, black, and American Indian--known to need dental treatment for disease on permanent teeth, were interviewed at home by a trained community resident interviewer. Sixty-two per cent of the mothers were on public assistance...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Frazier PJ,Jenny J,Bagramian RA,Robinson E,Proshek JM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As incorporated in Healthy People 2010 objectives, data and information systems and a skilled workforce are 2 of the critical components of the public health infrastructure. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) are important resources for improving Internet a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Humphreys BL,Ruffin AB,Cahn MA,Rambo N

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relationship between admission status and subsequent outcomes, 563 patients discharged during 1980 from 24 nursing homes were followed through 1982. Only 28 per cent of patients were discharged to their homes. Reconstructed life histories of 529 discharges for the two-year follow-up revealed only 38 p...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lewis MA,Kane RL,Cretin S,Clark V

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to determine whether the obstetrical judgment of viability makes a difference to fetal and neonatal survival of extremely low birthweight infants (500-749 g). METHODS:We assessed the effect of the antenatal judgment of viability in a group of 66 infants born weighing from 500 to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Reuss ML,Gordon HR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the costs, risks, and benefits of possible future major policy decisions on vaccination, surveillance, response plans, and containment following global eradication of wild polioviruses. METHODS:We developed a decision analytic model to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net b...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thompson KM,Tebbens RJ,Pallansch MA,Kew OM,Sutter RW,Aylward RB,Watkins M,Gary HE Jr,Alexander J,Jafari H,Cochi SL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed changes in the prevalence of hearing impairment in persons aged 50 years and older over the past 30 years and identified risk factors. METHODS:Age-adjusted hearing impairment prevalence rates at four time intervals were calculated from the Alameda County Study (n = 5108). Logistic regres...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wallhagen MI,Strawbridge WJ,Cohen RD,Kaplan GA

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We explored an innovative strategy for targeted testing and disease management among immigrant communities at risk for tuberculosis. METHODS:Taxi drivers were recruited at an airport holding lot to undergo tuberculin skin testing (Mantoux). After receiving their test results in a location convenient for the...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gany FM,Trinh-Shevrin C,Changrani J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To inform prevention policy, we estimated the economic benefits to health, production, and leisure in the 2008 Australian population of a realistic target reduction in per capita annual adult alcohol consumption. METHODS:We chose a target of 6.4 liters annually per capita on average. We modeled lifetime hea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Magnus A,Cadilhac D,Sheppard L,Cumming T,Pearce D,Carter R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of United States for-profit hospital chains into the international arena is a new and important development. Experiences with contract management of middle eastern hospitals in the early 1970s gave the American firms impetus to pursue ownership of health facilities in other parts of the world. US compani...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Berliner HS,Regan C

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To examine if exposure to victimization (e.g., homicide, violence, sexual assault, arson, kidnapping) is related to health problems, health care access and barriers, and health needs-beyond the effects of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C)-among Somali women and adolescent girls.Methods. We colle...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fox KA,Johnson-Agbakwu C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women of lower socioeconomic status and women of color in the United States have higher rates of abortion than women of higher socioeconomic status and White women. Opponents of abortion use these statistics to argue that abortion providers are exploiting women of color and low socioeconomic status, and thus, regulati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dehlendorf C,Harris LH,Weitz TA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an agent-based model to examine the impact of the walking school bus (WSB) on children's active travel to school. We identified a synergistic effect of the WSB with other intervention components such as an educational campaign designed to improve attitudes toward active travel to school. Results suggest that t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yang Y,Diez-Roux A,Evenson KR,Colabianchi N

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Using Jackson Heart Study data, we examined whether perceived discrimination was associated with prevalent hypertension in African Americans. METHODS:Everyday discrimination, lifetime discrimination, burden of discrimination, and stress from discrimination were examined among 4939 participants aged 35 to 84...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sims M,Diez-Roux AV,Dudley A,Gebreab S,Wyatt SB,Bruce MA,James SA,Robinson JC,Williams DR,Taylor HA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1974 and 1975, a selective tuberculosis screening program was conducted in a small mining community in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Former miners, 50 years of age and over, who had abnormal chest radiographs consistent with silicosis or inactive tuberculosis and positive tuberculin skin tests, were offered isoniazid pr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Snider DE Jr,Dewberry G,Gretz H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality trends suggest that increases in Connecticut incidence for cutaneous melanoma (CM) equal or under estimate increases for the entire country. One-sixth of CM in Connecticut occurs under age 35. In the 1955 birth cohort, modeled incidence rates per 100,000 age-adjusted to the 1960 US population are 38.2 in mal...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Roush GC,Schymura MJ,Holford TR

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the extent to which time spent watching television is associated with obesity and super-obesity among 6,138 employed adult males. After adjustment for age, smoking status, length of work week, measured physical fitness, and reported weekly hours of exercise, people who viewed TV more than three hours/day ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tucker LA,Friedman GM

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated whether the decline of the racial disparity in preterm birth during the last decade was commensurate with a decline in the contribution of preterm birth to the infant mortality gap. METHODS:We used linked files of 1990 and 2000 data on US infant births and deaths to partition the gap between Bl...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schempf AH,Branum AM,Lukacs SL,Schoendorf KC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the associations between prepregnancy weight and the risk of pregnancy complications and adverse outcomes among nulliparous women. METHODS:We conducted a population-based cohort study with 96,801 Washington State birth certificates from 1992 to 1996. Women were categorized by body mass i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baeten JM,Bukusi EA,Lambe M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the joint impact of states' Medicaid expansion and participation in Medicaid enrollment outreach at the take-up of other means-tested public programs (Women, Infants, and Children [WIC], Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP]). METHODS:Data were used from the American Community Survey, ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lanese BG,Fischbein R,Furda C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem with classifying agriculturally related injury is that there is neither a rational nor a comprehensive scheme for grouping incidents into categories describing actual exposures encountered on farms and in agricultural work. Current surveillance systems are unable to differentiate between work tha...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Murphy DJ,Purschwitz M,Mahoney BS,Hoskin AF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to identify correlates of forced sex perpetration among men and victimization among women in Botswana and Swaziland. METHODS:We surveyed a 2-stage probability sample of 2074 adults from the 5 districts of Botswana with the highest HIV prevalence rates and all 4 regions of Swaziland. We used multiv...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tsai AC,Leiter K,Heisler M,Iacopino V,Wolfe W,Shannon K,Phaladze N,Hlanze Z,Weiser SD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the utility of statewide laboratory Cryptosporidium surveillance, we screened stools from all 5,256 patients evaluated at local health departments for parasitic disease from January 1985 through June 1988. Fifty-seven patients (1.1 percent) were found to have Cryptosporidium. Seasonal peaks in positivity w...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Skeels MR,Sokolow R,Hubbard CV,Andrus JK,Baisch J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in strategies to reduce health disparities and the call to enhance their roles in research, little information exists on how to prepare CHWs involved in community-academic initiatives (CAIs). Therefore, the New York University Prevention Research Cent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ruiz Y,Matos S,Kapadia S,Islam N,Cusack A,Kwong S,Trinh-Shevrin C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the relationship among father's occupational group, daily smoking, and smoking determinants in a cohort of New Zealand adolescents. METHODS:The longitudinal Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study provided information on adolescents' self-reported smoking behavior and potential predic...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Droomers M,Schrijvers CT,Casswell S,Mackenbach JP

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00