Identifying armed respondents to domestic violence restraining orders and recovering their firearms: process evaluation of an initiative in California.

abstract：:To study the effects of a comprehensive, multifaceted intervention program to reduce fireworks-related injuries during the Italian New Year's holiday season, active surveillance was conducted in the 18 public emergency rooms of Naples, Italy, before and after implementation of the program. Preintervention data collect...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： D'Argenio P,Cafaro L,Santonastasi F,Taggi F,Binkin N

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monthly Health Review was developed to monitor symptoms, illnesses and injuries among Air Traffic Controllers. Return rate of the mailed check-list exceeded 90 per cent. Diagnoses were generated from symptom clusters by computer algorithms. Telephone interview by physicians, laboratory analyses for serum pepsinogen ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jenkins CD,Kreger BE,Rose RM,Hurst M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To quantify changes in US health care spending required to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030 or 2040 and identify historical precedents for these changes.Methods. We analyzed multiple sources of historical and projected spending from 1970 through 2040. Parity was defined as the Organisation f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McCullough JM,Speer M,Magnan S,Fielding JE,Kindig D,Teutsch SM

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Affirmative action programs of all types are under attack legally and politically. Although medical schools have not been specifically targeted, their affirmative action programs, like others in higher education, are potentially in danger. This article examines the current legal status of affirmative action in medical...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： DeVille K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the structure and functions of state health departments throughout the United States and compared our findings with those from a previous national assessment conducted in 1990. METHODS:In 2001, we sent a survey to the state health officers of all 50 states. The survey asked about the structure a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Beitsch LM,Brooks RG,Grigg M,Menachemi N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated whether low concentrations of ambient air pollutants are associated with hospital admissions for ischemic cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases. METHODS:Associations between daily concentrations of sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and particulates and daily hospi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Pönkä A,Virtanen M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper offers suggestions to adi the selection of appropriate instruments and data gathering methods for studies that require measures of personal health status applicable in general populations. Before selecting measures, the reason for studying health status must be identified. Next, definitional issues arise wh...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ware JE Jr,Brook RH,Davies AR,Lohr KN

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the effect of the ACA expansion of dependents' coverage on health care expenditures and utilization for young adults by race/ethnicity. METHODS:We used difference-in-difference models to estimate the impact of the ACA expansion on health care expenditures, out-of-pocket payments (OOP) as a shar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chen J,Bustamante AV,Tom SE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to understand how the tobacco industry uses "youth smoking prevention" programs in Latin America. We analyzed tobacco industry documents, so-called "social reports," media reports, and material provided by Latin American public health advocates. Since the early 1990s, multinational tobacco companies have pro...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sebrié EM,Glantz SA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This population-based case-control study of North Carolina workplaces evaluated the hypothesis that employers' policies allowing firearms in the workplace may increase workers' risk of homicide. Workplaces where guns were permitted were about 5 times as likely to experience a homicide as those where all weapons were p...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Loomis D,Marshall SW,Ta ML

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study sought to estimate the impact on birthweight of maternal participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). METHODS:WIC estimates were based on sibling models incorporating data on children born between 1990 and 1996 to women taking part in the Nat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kowaleski-Jones L,Duncan GJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless children in New York City had an extremely high asthma prevalence-40%-in a cross-sectional study at 3 shelters (n=740) during 1998 to 1999. We used the same protocol to summarize subsequent data through December 2002. Asthma prevalence was 33% (n=1636); only 15% of the children previously diagnosed were takin...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Grant R,Bowen S,McLean DE,Berman D,Redlener K,Redlener I

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health physicists frequently serve as expert consultants to lawyers, courts, and administrators. One of the most common errors committed by experts is to equate, without qualification, the attributable fraction estimated from epidemiologic data to the probability of causation req...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Greenland S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Texas Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) sought to engage the WIC staff and community in the implementation of relevant and effective client-centered nutrition education. The program was implemented in a 4-stage framework. The collaborative process of developing client-ce...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Isbell MG,Seth JG,Atwood RD,Ray TC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the employment experience of 266 individuals one year after traumatic injury severe enough to require hospitalization. Of those working full-time prior to their injury, 56 per cent were employed full-time at one year; an additional 5 per cent were working part-time. Those sustaining a severe head ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： MacKenzie EJ,Shapiro S,Smith RT,Siegel JH,Moody M,Pitt A

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：:The term "rural" suggests many things to many people, such as agricultural landscapes, isolation, small towns, and low population density.However, defining "rural" for health policy and research purposes requires researchers and policy analysts to specify which aspects of rurality are most relevant to the topic at han...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hart LG,Larson EH,Lishner DM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article describes a unifying conceptual framework for the public health system as a way to facilitate the measurement of public health system performance. METHODS:A conceptual framework for the public health system was developed on the basis of the work of Donabedian and a conceptual model previously d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Handler A,Issel M,Turnock B

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test the effectiveness of a preclinical, telephone-based patient navigation intervention to encourage colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among older Black men. METHODS:We conducted a 3-parallel-arm, randomized trial among 731 self-identified Black men recruited at barbershops between 2010 and 2013 in New ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cole H,Thompson HS,White M,Browne R,Trinh-Shevrin C,Braithwaite S,Fiscella K,Boutin-Foster C,Ravenell J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304412.]. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors：

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among homeless veterans and assessed the TBI-4, a screening tool created to identify TBI history. Between May 2010 and October 2011, 800 US veterans from two hospitals, one eastern (n = 122) and one western (n = 678) completed some or all measures. Findings ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Russell LM,Devore MD,Barnes SM,Forster JE,Hostetter TA,Montgomery AE,Casey R,Kane V,Brenner LA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the history of childhood lead poisoning started a century ago in the United States, the first French cases were identified in 1985. Instead of merely adopting knowledge accumulated for decades, the public health professionals and activists involved had to reestablish, against incredulity from medical authorit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fassin D,Naudé AJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Social cohesion is recognized as a fundamental condition for healthy populations, but social cohesion itself arises from political unity. The history of the Berlin Wall provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of partition on social cohesion and, by inference, on health. METHODS:This ethnographi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Héon-Klin V,Sieber E,Huebner J,Fullilove MT

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a phone survey of 1,669 San Francisco Hispanics ages 15 to 64 years. The age-adjusted overall smoking prevalence was 25.4 per cent (95% CI = 23.3, 27.5) with more men (32.4 per cent) smoking than women (16.8 per cent). Age-adjusted smoking rates were higher among the less acculturated males (37.5 vs 26.7 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marin G,Perez-Stable EJ,Marin BV

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Intravenous drug use has played a key role in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. Standardized surveillance of HIV infection among intravenous drug users (IVDUs) is needed to determine HIV prevalence rates, to monitor changes in prevalence over time, and to describe behaviors associated with HIV...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Allen DM,Onorato IM,Green TA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1919 to 1952, approximately 20 000 individuals were sterilized in California's state institutions on the basis of eugenic laws that sought to control the reproductive capacity of people labeled unfit and defective. Using data from more than 19 000 sterilization recommendations processed by state institutions over...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Stern AM,Novak NL,Lira N,O'Connor K,Harlow S,Kardia S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates that there be no out-of-pocket cost for Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods. Among 987 privately insured reproductive aged Pennsylvania women, fewer than 5% were aware that their insurance covered tubal sterilization, and only 11% were awa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chuang CH,Mitchell JL,Velott DL,Legro RS,Lehman EB,Confer L,Weisman CS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymptomatic infection with either Entameba histolytica or Giardia lamblia was found in 61 per cent of the residents of a dormitory in an institution for the mentally retarded; two other dormitories had rates of 20 per cent and 22 per cent. Drug therapy was successfully undertaken in all three dormitories, and environ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thacker SB,Simpson S,Gordon TJ,Wolfe M,Kimball AM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00