Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases Among American Indians in Rural Oklahoma: The THRIVE Study.

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：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence and patterns of polysubstance use among US reproductive-aged women who use opioids for nonmedical purposes. METHODS:We used the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (2005-2014) data on female respondents aged 18 to 44 years reporting nonmedical opioid use in the past 30 days (u...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jarlenski M,Barry CL,Gollust S,Graves AJ,Kennedy-Hendricks A,Kozhimannil K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Italian death rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) for all causes and for 12 selected aggregations of causes are reported for 1979 and 1983, with the latter compared to United States data. Cancer is the leading cause of YPLL in Italy (23.8 per cent of total YPLL), followed by unintentional injuries (16.3 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Arcà M,di Orio F,Forastiere F,Tasco C,Perucci CA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study sought to estimate rates of cervical cancer and Papanicolaou testing among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in Manitoba, Canada. METHODS:Data were derived through linking of administrative databases. RESULTS:In comparison with non-Aboriginal women, Aboriginal women had 1.8 and 3.6 times the a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Young TK,Kliewer E,Blanchard J,Mayer T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the relationships between wealth and income and selected racial and ethnic differences in health. METHODS:Cross-sectional data on a national sample of 9744 men and women aged 51 through 61 from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey were analyzed to examine the association between socioec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kington RS,Smith JP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the effectiveness of the COMmunity of Practice And Safety Support (COMPASS) Total Worker Health intervention for home care workers. METHODS:We randomized 16 clusters of workers (n = 149) to intervention or usual-practice control conditions. The 12-month intervention was scripted and peer-led, a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Olson R,Thompson SV,Elliot DL,Hess JA,Rhoten KL,Parker KN,Wright RR,Wipfli B,Bettencourt KM,Buckmaster A,Marino M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate national need for family planning services among men in the United States according to background characteristics, access to care, receipt of services, and contraception use. METHODS:We used weighted data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to estimate the percentage of men aged ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marcell AV,Gibbs SE,Choiriyyah I,Sonenstein FL,Astone NM,Pleck JH,Dariotis JK

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of age specific rates of psychiatric admissions within Brooklyn, New York, indicated that population density may function as an intervening variable in the production of mental illness. Measures of household and family contact were found to be significantly correlated to four rates of hospital utilizati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schweitzer L,Su WH

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption on a per capita country basis is associated with diabetes mortality rates for men. The relation is also positive for women, but not statistically significant. Countries that consume primarily beer have higher diabetes mortality rates than countries that consume primarily spirits or wine. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Keilman PA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This field study tested the feasibility and benefits of a program to promote 6 targeted parental behaviors to prevent obesity in children served by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). METHODS:Two WIC sites participated in a nonrandomized, controlled 1-year pros...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McGarvey E,Keller A,Forrester M,Williams E,Seward D,Suttle DE

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the social distribution of environmental hazards, methods to assess cumulative effects and their health implications are needed. We developed a cumulative environmental hazard index integrating environmental data on pollution sites, air quality, and pesticide use; a social vulnerability index to measure ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Huang G,London J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic occupational health centers can support state-based occupational disease surveillance by playing a role in case identification and management, physician education, workplace investigation, and surveillance case criteria development. The existing centers can also serve as models for developing new clinics. As ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Welch L

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examining previously underused corporate documents, we revisit the story of the Asbestos Information Association/North America, an industry trade group that sought in the early 1970s to counteract the growing public attention to, and government regulation of, asbestos as a serious threat to workers and consumers. From...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Markowitz G,Rosner D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated perceived social and environmental supports for physical activity and walking using multivariable modeling. Perceptions were obtained on a sample of households in a southeastern county. Respondents were classified according to physical activity levels and walking behaviors. Respondents who had good street...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Addy CL,Wilson DK,Kirtland KA,Ainsworth BE,Sharpe P,Kimsey D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study examined (1) the relationship between income inequality and mortality among all counties in the contiguous United States to ascertain whether the relationships found for states and metropolitan areas extend to smaller geographic units and (2) the influence of minority racial concentration on the i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McLaughlin DK,Stokes CS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper assesses the risks and benefits associated with hysterectomy by comparing the age-adjusted health care usage patterns of all women receiving hysterectomy in the Province of Manitoba in 1974 during the two years before and the two years after surgery with those of women undergoing cholecystectomy, and with t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Roos NP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether differences exist in the performance of United States Medical Graduate (USMG) and Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) House Staff physicians, inpatient hospital audits evaluating individual physician performance on patient histories and physical examinations were conducted in 14 Maryland and Pennsylvan...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Saywell RW Jr,Studnicki J,Bean JA,Ludke RL

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the effectiveness of a community coalition to prevent severe injuries to children in Central Harlem, New York, NY. It was hypothesized that injury incidence rates would decline during the intervention (1989 through 1991) relative to preintervention years (1983 through 1988); that the dec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davidson LL,Durkin MS,Kuhn L,O'Connor P,Barlow B,Heagarty MC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine whether an elevated burden of chronic kidney disease is found among disadvantaged groups living in the United States, Australia, and Thailand. METHODS:We used data on participants 35 years or older for whom a valid serum creatinine measurement was available from studies in the United ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White SL,McGeechan K,Jones M,Cass A,Chadban SJ,Polkinghorne KR,Perkovic V,Roderick PJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined whether social processes of neighborhoods, such as collective efficacy, during individual's adolescent years affect the likelihood of being involved in physical dating violence during young adulthood. METHODS:Using longitudinal data on 633 urban youths aged 13 to 19 years at baseline and data fr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jain S,Buka SL,Subramanian SV,Molnar BE

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the use of an instrument to measure exposure to stressors among 149 women presenting with their children for pediatric care at an urban primary care center. Overall, 38.3 percent of the women had significant levels of depressive symptoms; 71.4 percent of those in the "high stress" group had an adjusted pr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Orr ST,James SA,Burns BJ,Thompson B

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On June 20, 1997 a group of attorneys and health advocates proposed a "global settlement" of all public and private litigation against the tobacco industry. This agreement was controversial, and the subsequent implementing legislation was defeated. We sought to determine whether the global settlement represented a "mi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Givel M,Glantz SA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined hospital administrators' experiences with the National Practitioner Data Bank. METHODS:One hundred forty-nine rural hospital administrators completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of the data bank. RESULTS:Nearly 90% of respondents rated the data bank as an important source...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Neighbor WE,Baldwin LM,West PA,Hart LG

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:This commentary considers the implications of the assessment of racial/ethnic status for monitoring the health of African Americans and other Black populations in the United States. It argues that because racial disparities in health and other social indicators persist undiminished, the continued assessment of race is...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Williams DR,Jackson JS

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:A large portion of current epidemiologic research is based on methodologic individualism: the notion that the distribution of health and disease in populations can be explained exclusively in terms of the characteristics of individuals. The present paper discusses the need to include group- or macro-level variables in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Diez-Roux AV

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether asking questions about a future behavior changes this behavior (i.e., the question-behavior effect) when applied to a population-level intervention to enhance colorectal cancer screening. METHODS:In 2013, text-message reminders were sent to a national sample of 50 000 Israeli women and men...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hagoel L,Neter E,Stein N,Rennert G

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00