Providing culturally competent services for American Indian and Alaska Native veterans to reduce health care disparities.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed the quality of hospital care for women who underwent a hysterectomy to compare Medicaid-covered women with privately insured women and minority women with White women. METHODS:We evaluated medical decisions, inpatient care, quality of inpatient care, and outcomes. RESULTS:Quality of hospital car...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hakim RB,Benedict MB,Merrick NJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We analyzed cervical cancer incidence and mortality data in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women compared with women of other races. METHODS:We improved identification of AI/AN race, cervical cancer incidence, and mortality data using Indian Health Service (IHS) patient records; our analyses focu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Watson M,Benard V,Thomas C,Brayboy A,Paisano R,Becker T

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the relationship between breastfeeding, asthma and atopy, and child body mass index (BMI). METHODS:From a prospective birth cohort (n = 2860) in Perth, Western Australia, 2195 children were followed up to age 6 years. Asthma was defined as doctor-diagnosed asthma and wheeze in the last year,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Oddy WH,Sherriff JL,de Klerk NH,Kendall GE,Sly PD,Beilin LJ,Blake KB,Landau LI,Stanley FJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined whether there are systematic differences between the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) for state cigarette smoking prevalence estimates. METHODS:BRFSS telephone survey estimates were compared with estimates from the US Census CPS t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Arday DR,Tomar SL,Nelson DE,Merritt RK,Schooley MW,Mowery P

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among all deaths to Connecticut residents (1990/91), 1260 were acceptable Spanish-surname matches (using father's surname for females), of which only 793 (62.9%) were identified as Hispanic origin on the death certificate. Certificates also identified 127 non-Spanish-surnamed Hispanics. With death rates for non-Hispan...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Polednak AP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified factors associated with death at home for 28,828 hospice and non-hospice cancer patients in 13 counties of western Washington State. Hospice participation was found to be the variable most strongly associated with death at home. Admission to hospice appears to override the tendency for certain subgroups ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Moinpour CM,Polissar L

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether local health departments (LHDs) were conducting obesity prevention programs and diabetes screening programs, and we examined associations between LHD characteristics and whether they conducted these programs. METHODS:We used the 2005 National Profile of Local Health Departments to conduc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zhang X,Luo H,Gregg EW,Mukhtar Q,Rivera M,Barker L,Albright A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family physicians in the State of Washington were surveyed about their knowledge and views about chiropractors; 79 per cent (476) responded. Sixty-six per cent indicated discomfort with what they believed chiropractors do while acknowledging their effectiveness for some patients; 25 per cent viewed chiropractors as an...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cherkin D,MacCornack FA,Berg AO

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the number of deaths attributable to secondhand smoke (SHS), years of potential life lost (YPLL), and value of lost productivity for different US racial/ethnic groups in 2006. METHODS:We determined the number of SHS-related deaths among nonsmokers from 2 adult and 4 infant conditions using an e...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Max W,Sung HY,Shi Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to examine the extent to which children in the child welfare system receive mental health care consistent with national standards. METHODS:We used data from 4 waves (3 years of follow-up) of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, the nation's first longitudinal study of children i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Raghavan R,Inoue M,Ettner SL,Hamilton BH,Landsverk J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:I studied the extent to which maternal deaths are underreported on death certificates. METHODS:We collected data on maternal deaths from death certificates, linkage of death certificates with birth and fetal death records, and review of medical examiner records. RESULTS:Thirty-eight percent of maternal dea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Horon IL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine whether supplemental private insurance coverage among Medicare recipients alters patterns of health care or outcomes associated with acute myocardial infarction. METHODS:Medicare patients hospitalized after a myocardial infarction were identified from New York City hospitalization rec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fang J,Alderman MH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) have increased fivefold in the past decade. To address this expanding and complex issue, state public health agencies have addressed the opioid crisis affecting newborns in diverse ways, leading to a variety of methods to quantify the burden of NAS.In an effort to understand...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chiang KV,Okoroh EM,Kasehagen LJ,Garcia-Saavedra LF,Ko JY

更新日期：2019-09-01 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:To study the effects of several survey features on response rates in a general population health survey. METHODS:In 2012 and 2013, 8000 households in British Columbia, Canada, were randomly allocated to 1 of 7 survey variants, each containing a different combination of survey features. Features compared inc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Guo Y,Kopec JA,Cibere J,Li LC,Goldsmith CH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unusual resistance of the "unconventional viruses" to inactivation by the commonly used disinfectants has led to a high degree of apprehension regarding patients with any form of dementia. The rapid adaptation of a newly acquired isolate of the agent of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) to mice made possible this la...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Walker AS,Inderlied CB,Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In northern Uganda, physical and structural violence (political repression, economic inequality, and gender-based discrimination) increase vulnerability to HIV infection. In settings of war, traditional HIV prevention that solely promotes risk avoidance and risk reduction and assumes the existence of personal choice i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Westerhaus MJ,Finnegan AC,Zabulon Y,Mukherjee JS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine prospectively the association between reported use of vitamin supplements and risk of cataract and cataract extraction. METHODS:The study population consisted of 17,744 participants in the Physicians' Health Study, a randomized trial of aspirin therapy and beta-carot...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Seddon JM,Christen WG,Manson JE,LaMotte FS,Glynn RJ,Buring JE,Hennekens CH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports register data concerning somatic and psychiatric hospital care on 117 battered women who were identified in a surgical emergency department and offered a treatment program. Data were collected during a period of 10 years before to 5 years after the battering in question. It was concluded that the ba...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bergman B,Brismar B

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recognition of the importance of posttrial access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), the implementation process has not been studied. We examined whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidance document was being implemented in NIH-funded ART trials conducted in developing countries between July 2005 an...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shah S,Elmer S,Grady C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effect of a community-based physical activity program in Pawtucket, RI, was evaluated relative to one in a comparison community. METHODS:Cross-sectional surveys of 7529 residents of Pawtucket, RI, and 7732 residents of the comparison city were conducted at 2-year intervals during 7 years of intervention...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Eaton CB,Lapane KL,Garber CE,Gans KM,Lasater TM,Carleton RA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the professional relationships between midwives and physicians providing obstetrical care in Washington State. Four hundred ninety-six randomly sampled family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists and 211 certified nurse, licensed, and lay midwives were surveyed to learn more about midwife/phys...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baldwin LM,Hutchinson HL,Rosenblatt RA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Disablement Process model explicates the transition from health conditions to disability and specifically emphasizes the role of intervening factors that speed up or slow down the pathway between pathology and disability. We used hierarchical Poisson regression analyses with data on older adults from central North...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Clarke P,George LK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of RU 486 (mifepristone), a steroid analogue capable of inducing menses within 8 to 10 weeks of a missed menstrual period, has provoked a firestorm of concern and controversy. When used in conjunction with prostaglandin (RU 486/PG), it is at least 95% effective. Used in France principally to terminate confi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Banwell SS,Paxman JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated sexual orientation disparities in Papanicolaou screening among US women aged 21 to 44 years (n = 9581) in the 2006 to 2010 National Survey of Family Growth. The odds ratios for lesbian versus heterosexual women and women with no versus only male sexual partners were 0.40 and 0.32, respectively, and wer...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Agénor M,Krieger N,Austin SB,Haneuse S,Gottlieb BR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the effectiveness of community-level HIV prevention programming for men who have sex with men. METHODS:We used multilevel methods to examine unprotected intercourse by bisexual men (n = 1016) with male and female partners in geographic regions with and without HIV prevention programming. RESULT...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Leaver CA,Allman D,Meyers T,Veugelers PJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five years after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the mental health of women who had been pregnant and living within 10 miles of Three Mile Island at the time of the accident was similar to that of women from the same area who became pregnant after the accident. Ratings of the development of the two groups of c...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Houts PS,Tokuhata GK,Bratz J,Bartholomew MJ,Sheffer KW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess the capacity of state public health agencies to address noncommunicable disease clusters (NCCs) and to develop recommendations to enhance agencies' NCC response capacity. METHODS:We conducted an inventory of state public health agency Web sites and administered a Web-based survey of stat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Juzych NS,Resnick B,Streeter R,Herbstman J,Zablotsky J,Fox M,Burke TA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have summarized the evolution of the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), a prospective cohort study of 121 700 married registered nurses launched in 1976; NHS II, which began in 1989 and enrolled 116 430 nurses; and NHS3, which began in 2010 and has ongoing enrollment. Over 40 years, these studies have generated long-term,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bao Y,Bertoia ML,Lenart EB,Stampfer MJ,Willett WC,Speizer FE,Chavarro JE

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00