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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Given the declining health status of the Russian population and the negative social impact of ongoing economic reforms, it is important to understand the nature and scope of Russia's innovations in health care financing. METHODS:Data on Russian health care and its financing were gathered from Russian newspa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Burger EJ Jr,Field MG,Twigg JL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the number and cost of syphilis-attributable HIV cases among African Americans. METHODS:A mathematical model of HIV transmission was used to estimate the number of partnerships consisting of HIV-discordant African Americans in which infectious syphilis was present and the number of new HIV case...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chesson HW,Pinkerton SD,Voigt R,Counts GW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of consumer demand for patient-oriented pharmacy services. Data, collected via a self-administered questionnaire distributed to 300 households, were analyzed using Kruskal's program for additive conjoint analysis. The results indicate substantial consumer demand ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Carroll NV,Gagnon JP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In spite of over 30 years of periodic nationwide surveys, we have thus far only the most rudimentary estimates of the determinants of the health of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. This paper explores ways to improve the capability of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to collect national...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yu ES,Liu WT

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term consequences of prior oral contraceptive use for bone mineral density were examined in 239 postmenopausal women, 35.1% of whom reported prior oral contraceptive use. Women who had used oral contraceptives for 6 or more years had significantly higher bone densities of the lumbar spine and femoral neck, bu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kritz-Silverstein D,Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This psychiatric epidemiology study following the Mount St. Helens volcanic disaster revealed a significant morbidity for psychiatric disorders. The increased prevalence showed a dose response pattern in three population groups. The findings are reported as relative and attributable risk for the two exposed population...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shore JH,Tatum EL,Vollmer WM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We interviewed 1038 HIV-positive inpatients in public hospitals in Miami, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia, to examine patient factors associated with use of HIV care, use of antiretroviral therapy, and unprotected sexual intercourse. Multivariate analyses and multiple logistic regression models showed that use of crack ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Metsch LR,Bell C,Pereyra M,Cardenas G,Sullivan T,Rodriguez A,Gooden L,Khoury N,Kuper T,Brewer T,del Rio C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the Child Health Supplement to the 1981 National Health Interview Survey, illness and use of physician services are compared for children under 18 years old in three family income groups. The results indicate that although annual prevalence of many health problems does not differ greatly by income leve...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Newacheck PW,Starfield B

更新日期：1988-08-01 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:We examined local health department (LHD) preparedness capacities in the context of participation in accreditation and other performance improvement efforts. MetHODS: We analyzed preparedness in 8 domains among LHDs responding to a preparedness capacity instrument from 2010 through 2012. Study groups include...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davis MV,Bevc CA,Schenck AP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I applied the capture-recapture method to estimate the World Trade Center tower population at the time of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Available lists helped identify 8965 survivors and 2152 confirmed casualties. The capture-recapture model suggested that an additional 4435 survivors were present, puttin...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Murphy J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the role of neighborhood poverty and racial composition on race disparities in diabetes prevalence. METHODS:We used data from the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and 2000 US Census to estimate the impact of individual race and poverty and neighborhood racial...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gaskin DJ,Thorpe RJ Jr,McGinty EE,Bower K,Rohde C,Young JH,LaVeist TA,Dubay L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt intake of 978 subjects when compared to 1954 data demonstrated a trend toward the decreased use of table salt. When hypertensives in treatment were excluded, persons reporting low salt use had higher mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures than those reporting high salt use. These findings were the reverse of...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Phillips K,Holm K,Wu AC

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To quantify sociodemographic disparities in prediagnosis preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use in persons recently diagnosed with HIV in New York City and assigned for partner services.Methods. We used partner services data from November 2015 to September 2017 from persons diagnosed with HIV in the past 12 mo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Misra K,Huang JS,Udeagu CN

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We reviewed data for the Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative (MARI), which was established in 2003 to support underrepresented minority scientists performing HIV prevention research in highly affected communities. METHODS:MARI was established at the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control as a program ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sutton MY,Lanier YA,Willis LA,Castellanos T,Dominguez K,Fitzpatrick L,Miller KS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Much research has documented that youthful substance use typically follows a sequence starting with use of alcohol or tobacco or both and potentially proceeding to marijuana and then hard drug use. This study explicitly examined the probabilities of progression through each stage and their covariates. METHO...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Golub A,Johnson BD

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enhancing Care Initiative of Puerto Rico assessed services available to people living with HIV/AIDS in the western region of Puerto Rico. Participants were 212 people living with HIV/AIDS and 116 employees from 6 agencies providing HIV/AIDS services in the region. Two main findings were that depression symptoms we...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Asencio Toro G,Burns P,Pimentel D,Sánchez Peraza LR,Rivera Lugo C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined how National Cancer Institute-funded Community Network Programs (CNPs) operationalized principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). METHODS:We reviewed the literature and extant CBPR measurement tools. On the basis of that review, we developed a 27-item questionnaire for CNPs to ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Braun KL,Nguyen TT,Tanjasiri SP,Campbell J,Heiney SP,Brandt HM,Smith SA,Blumenthal DS,Hargreaves M,Coe K,Ma GX,Kenerson D,Patel K,Tsark J,Hébert JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A joint urban planning and public health perspective is articulated here for use, in health impact assessment. Absent a blueprint for a coherent and supportive structure on which to test our thinking, we are bound to fall flat. Such a perspective is made necessary by the sheer number of people living in cities through...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Northridge ME,Sclar E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated whether state-sponsored antitobacco advertisements are associated with reduced adult smoking, and interactions between smoking-related advertising types. METHODS:We measured mean exposure to smoking-related advertisements with television ratings for the top-75 US media markets from 1999 to 2...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Emery S,Kim Y,Choi YK,Szczypka G,Wakefield M,Chaloupka FJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the percentage of unintentional firearm-related injuries associated with hunting and to identify risk factors, we conducted a retrospective, descriptive survey of all hunting firearm injuries identified by two North Carolina surveillance systems. Almost one-third of unintentional shooting deaths are hunti...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cole TB,Patetta MJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workplace barriers contribute to low rates of breastfeeding. Research shows that supportive state laws correlate with higher rates, yet by 2009, only 23 states had adopted any laws to encourage breastfeeding in the workplace. Federal law provided virtually no protection to working mothers until the 2010 enactment of t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Murtagh L,Moulton AD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess whether breastfeeding-related hospital practices reported by mothers were associated with achievement of their intentions to exclusively breastfeed. METHODS:We used data from Listening to Mothers II, a nationally representative survey of 1573 mothers who had given birth in a hospital to ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Declercq E,Labbok MH,Sakala C,O'Hara M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. METHODS:Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Prickett KC,Martin-Storey A,Crosnoe R

更新日期：2014-06-01 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:We investigated whether eating behaviors were concordant among diverse sets of social ties. METHODS:We analyzed the socioeconomic and demographic distribution of eating among 3418 members of the Framingham Heart Study observed from 1991 to 2001. We used a data-classification procedure to simplify choices in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Pachucki MA,Jacques PF,Christakis NA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined individual, friend or family, and community or tribe correlates of suicidality in a representative on-reserve sample of First Nations adolescents. METHODS:Data came from the 2002-2003 Manitoba First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey of Youth. Interviews were conducted with adolescents ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mota N,Elias B,Tefft B,Medved M,Munro G,Sareen J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theoretical approaches to bioethics and public health ethics propose varied justifications as the basis for health care and public health, yet none captures a fundamental reality: people seek good health and the ability to pursue it. Existing models do not effectively address these twin goals. The approach I e...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ruger JP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS) are dissuaded from the use of tobacco, alcohol, and hot drinks. A well-balanced diet is also stressed. This study compares the 1972-78 mortality experience of the Missouri RLDS with three other population groups. The findings show Missouri R...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McEvoy L,Land G

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsidized rural clinics and providers have long depended on the rural hospital for the care of some of their patients; the hospital has also been a source of revenue for these providers and programs. We studied a representative national sample of 116 subsidized rural clinics, focusing on the impact on rural clinic co...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McLaughlin CP,Ricketts TC,Freund DA,Sheps CG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00