Discrimination and Cumulative Disease Damage Among African American Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

abstract：:Surveys concerning the risk communication practices and needs of state health agencies were completed by agency commissioners and designated staff of 48 states and territories. These data indicate that agencies are expending more effort on responding to requests for information than on initiating dialogues with intere...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chess C,Salomone KL,Sandman PM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed attitudes and opinions of members of newborn blood screening (NBS) advisory committees regarding the storage and secondary research use of residual specimens from NBS. METHODS:We conducted focus groups in 2008 and 2009 with NBS advisory committees (4 focus groups; n = 39 participants) in the Mou...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rothwell EW,Anderson RA,Burbank MJ,Goldenberg AJ,Lewis MH,Stark LA,Wong B,Botkin JR

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We examined the factors influencing delay in seeking abortion and the outcomes for women denied abortion care because of gestational age limits at abortion facilities. METHODS:We compared women who presented for abortion care who were under the facilities' gestational age limits and received an abortion (n ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Upadhyay UD,Weitz TA,Jones RK,Barar RE,Foster DG

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the association between leisure time physical activity and cause-specific mortality among male Whitehall Study participants with chronic bronchitis. METHODS:Rate ratios were calculated for 4 mortality outcomes, according to level of activity and baseline bronchitis status, in a 25-year f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Batty GD,Shipley MJ,Marmot MG,Smith GD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomics and neuroscience have ushered in unprecedented opportunities to increase our understanding of the biological underpinnings of mental disorders, yet there has been limited progress in translating knowledge on genetic risk factors to reduce the burden of these conditions in the population. We descri...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Merikangas KR,Merikangas AK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To evaluate the effect of the voluntary safety standard for liquid laundry packets on the rate of injury involving children younger than 5 years in the United States.Methods. Semiannual national estimates of child injuries involving liquid laundry packets treated in US hospital emergency departments were d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hanway SJ,Rodgers GB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of the emergency medical services system in the United States accelerated rapidly between 1960 and 1973 as a result of a number of medical, historical, and social forces. Current emergency medical services researchers, policy advocates, and administrators must acknowledge these forces and their limitatio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shah MN

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The logistic regression model is being used with increasing frequency in all areas of public health research. In the calendar year 1989, over 30% of the articles published in the American Journal of Public Health employed some form of logistic regression modeling. In spite of this increase, there has been no...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hosmer DW,Taber S,Lemeshow S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the cessation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) among British women, by educational level, social class, and cardiovascular risk factors, at the time of publicity about 2 clinical trials of HRT that were halted after adverse findings. METHODS:A total of 1387 women aged 57 years reported their...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mishra G,Kok H,Ecob R,Cooper R,Hardy R,Kuh D

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demands of equity and efficiency require a program of universal health insurance in the United States through which all workers will be provided by their employers with health insurance for themselves and their dependents, unemployment will no longer result in the loss of health insurance protection, and federal s...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bayer R,Callahan D,Caplan AL,Jennings B

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking behavior of consistently high and low users of medical care services were compared in two groups of older health maintenance organization (HMO) members continuously enrolled for five years and a subgroup who were continuously enrolled for 10 years. Smokers and former smokers, combined, were more likely than ne...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Freeborn DK,Mullooly JP,Pope CR,McFarland BH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to assess the effects of the North Carolina Improved Pregnancy Outcome (IPO) Project on use of prenatal care and incidence of low birthweight among its primarily Black registrants . Weighted least squares and stratified analysis procedures were used to scrutinize vital statistics data for subpo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Peoples MD,Grimson RC,Daughtry GL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed trends in HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users in New York City from 1990 to 1997. METHODS:Injection drug users were recruited continuously from a large drug detoxification treatment program (N = 2588) and a research storefront located in a high-drug-use area (N = 2701). Informe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Des Jarlais C,Perlis T,Friedman SR,Chapman T,Kwok J,Rockwell R,Paone D,Milliken J,Monterroso E

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined refusal rates for sensitive demographic questions to determine whether questions on sexual orientation are too sensitive for routine use on public health surveys. We compared the percentage of active refusals in New Mexico for a sexual orientation question and 6 other sensitive demographic questions. In 20...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： VanKim NA,Padilla JL,Lee JG,Goldstein AO

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We analyzed how ease of geographic access to emergency departments (EDs), defined as driving time to the closest ED, changed between 2001 and 2005, and whether access deterioration was more likely to occur in vulnerable communities. METHODS:We classified communities on the basis of American Hospital Associa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shen YC,Hsia RY

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An association of smoking with depression and anxiety has been documented in adult smokers. This study examines this association in a representative group of teenage smokers. METHODS:A two-stage cluster sample of secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, were surveyed by using a computerized questio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Patton GC,Hibbert M,Rosier MJ,Carlin JB,Caust J,Bowes G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health agencies increasingly use electronic means to acquire, use, maintain, and store personal health information. Electronic data formats can improve performance of core public health functions, but potentially threaten privacy because they can be easily duplicated and transmitted to unauthorized people. Alth...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Myers J,Frieden TR,Bherwani KM,Henning KJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to be overlooked as a resource to address health care workforce shortages and growing needs for a diverse health workforce, despite our commitment as a nation to health equity and eliminating health disparities. Health workforce graduation rates help illum...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Noonan A,Lindong I,Jaitley VN

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project to compare birthweights and birthweight-specific mortality risks among Native American and White infants. Because race categories in NIMS were limited to White, Black, and all, we studied six states in which greater than 85 per cent of newborn...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Vanlandingham MJ,Buehler JW,Hogue CJ,Strauss LT

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used improved data on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) ancestry to provide an updated and comprehensive description of cancer mortality and incidence among AI/AN populations from 1990 to 2009. METHODS:We linked the National Death Index and central cancer registry records independently to the Ind...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White MC,Espey DK,Swan J,Wiggins CL,Eheman C,Kaur JS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this article the author describes public health advocacy and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding how it works. METHODS:The proposed framework incorporates the image of an assembly line. The public health advocacy assembly line produces changes in societal resource allocation that are necess...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Christoffel KK

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of personal and job characteristics on the time to employment loss after diagnosis of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to examine how job loss affects patients' income. METHODS:Data were collected from 305 patients with AIDS at three sit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Massagli MP,Weissman JS,Seage GR 3rd,Epstein AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We conducted case studies of 10 agencies that participated in early quality improvement efforts. METHODS:The agencies participated in a project conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (2007-2008). Case study participants included health directors and quality improvement tea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davis MV,Mahanna E,Joly B,Zelek M,Riley W,Verma P,Fisher JS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This prospective study examined the effect of tobacco marketing on progression to established smoking. METHODS:Massachusetts adolescents (n = 529) who at baseline had smoked no more than 1 cigarette were reinterviewed by telephone in 1997. Analyses examined the effect of receptivity to tobacco marketing at ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Biener L,Siegel M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We systematically reviewed randomized controlled trials of interventions to improve the health of people during imprisonment or in the year after release. We searched 14 biomedical and social science databases in 2014, and identified 95 studies. Most studies involved only men or a majority of men (70/83 studies in whi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kouyoumdjian FG,McIsaac KE,Liauw J,Green S,Karachiwalla F,Siu W,Burkholder K,Binswanger I,Kiefer L,Kinner SA,Korchinski M,Matheson FI,Young P,Hwang SW

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, an increasing number of women have been entering the labor force. It is known that in men, employment is related to heart disease risk, but there are few studies examining this association among women. METHODS:The relation between employment status and heart disease risk factors including l...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kritz-Silverstein D,Wingard DL,Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of live births, spontaneous fetal deaths, and induced abortions in residents of Upstate New York ages 12--17 shows that pregnancy rates increased during the period 1971 through 1974. This increase was attributable to pregnancies ending in induced abortion while live births remained relatively stable. White te...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hansen H,Stroh G,Whitaker K

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a national sample of hospitals were used to explore reasons for improved in-hospital survival rate for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery between 1972 and 1982. Increases in annual volumes of surgery explain a large fraction of the decline in death rates. The residual can be attributed to improved t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rosenfeld K,Luft HS,Garnick DW,McPhee SJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen children, ages 4 to 6 years, with known exposure to polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) in utero and/or through breast milk were administered developmental tests. These same children had exhibited low scores on a partial developmental assessment two years earlier. Current results were compared to normative test da...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schwartz EM,Rae WA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00