Smoking and consistently high use of medical care among older HMO members.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We describe common surgical and medical hospital admission rates for Maryland residents, exploring systematic effects of race and income. METHODS:The data comprise Maryland hospital discharges and population estimates for 1985 to 1987. Patient income is the race-specific median family income of residence zi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gittelsohn AM,Halpern J,Sanchez RL

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The humanitarian crisis revealed as a result of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico demonstrates a long history of US colonial neglect and human rights violations. This reality has made it especially difficult for the people of Puerto Rico to achieve their right to the highest attainable standard of health.The impacts are ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Joseph SR,Voyles C,Williams KD,Smith E,Chilton M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking histories and beliefs about smoking were obtained on 120 ex- and current smokers. Ex-smokers view smoking as a serious health problem, did not report having a physician recommend they stop, and feel personally susceptible to its adverse effects. Moderate smokers (0-10/day) also view smoking as serious, but do ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Weinberger M,Greene JY,Mamlin JJ,Jerin MJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research evidence indicates that 2 forms of racial discrimination-perceived interpersonal discrimination and racial/ethnic residential segregation (a form of institutional discrimination)-may influence children's health and disparities. Although research on these 2 forms of discrimination and health has primarily focu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Acevedo-Garcia D,Rosenfeld LE,Hardy E,McArdle N,Osypuk TL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A deeper understanding of how structure and environment shape the sexual and reproductive health vulnerabilities of youths across a range of outcomes has implications for the development of successful policies and programs. We have discussed some of the key structural and environmental factors that influence the sexua...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sommer M,Mmari K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cash can never compensate people for a half century of exile and the destruction of a lifestyle and culture. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Guyer RL

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:In 1984, we investigated the impact of a parental notification statue with judicial bypass procedures in Minnesota. Subjects were interviewed on the day of their abortion at four Minnesota and two Wisconsin clinics. Relatively few were aware of the statute in Minnesota. Parental notification rates were similar in Minn...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Blum RW,Resnick MD,Stark TA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The religious distribution of Nassau County resident leukemia cases diagnosed between 1966 and 1974 was studied to see if the elevated incidence of the disease among Jews reported in the 1950s and early 1960s was persisting. The results showed, for both males and females, virtually no difference in attack rates betwee...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cuneo JM

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational health problems have needlessly been produced at many worksites as a consequence of their not having been anticipated during design and construction. Pre-review may be an effective and efficient mechanism for preventive intervention in occupational health and safety. Legal and administrative precedents ar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Richter ED,Kretzmer D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined associations between premigration political violence exposure and past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among immigrant men attending community health centers in Boston. METHODS:A convenience sample of immigrant men (N = 379; aged 18-35 years), largely from the Caribbean and Cap...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gupta J,Acevedo-Garcia D,Hemenway D,Decker MR,Raj A,Silverman JG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article reports findings from a peer-delivered intervention designed to increase use of breast and cervical cancer screening. METHODS:Twenty-six worksites were randomly assigned to the intervention or comparison group. The 16-month intervention consisted of group discussions, outreach, and educational ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Allen JD,Stoddard AM,Mays J,Sorensen G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to determine whether the obstetrical judgment of viability makes a difference to fetal and neonatal survival of extremely low birthweight infants (500-749 g). METHODS:We assessed the effect of the antenatal judgment of viability in a group of 66 infants born weighing from 500 to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Reuss ML,Gordon HR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether New York City's gun-related homicide rates in the 1990s were associated with a range of social determinants of homicide rates. METHODS:We used cross-sectional time-series data for 74 New York City police precincts from 1990 through 1999, and we estimated Bayesian hierarchical models with...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cerdá M,Messner SF,Tracy M,Vlahov D,Goldmann E,Tardiff KJ,Galea S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We measured symptom and influenza prevalence, and the effectiveness of symptom and temperature screening for identifying influenza, in arriving international airline travelers. METHODS:This cross-sectional study collected data from travelers to Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand, in winter 2008...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Priest PC,Jennings LC,Duncan AR,Brunton CR,Baker MG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study developed national estimates of the burden of selected infectious diseases among correctional inmates and releases during 1997. METHODS:Data from surveys, surveillance, and other reports were synthesized to develop these estimates. RESULTS:During 1997, 20% to 26% of all people living with HIV in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hammett TM,Harmon MP,Rhodes W

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared faculty promotion rates by race/ethnicity across US academic medical centers. METHODS:We used the Association of American Medical College's 1983 through 2000 faculty roster data to estimate median institution-specific promotion rates for assistant professor to associate professor and for associa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nunez-Smith M,Ciarleglio MM,Sandoval-Schaefer T,Elumn J,Castillo-Page L,Peduzzi P,Bradley EH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health experts recommend that health insurance include coverage for smoking cessation treatment as an evidence-based strategy to reduce smoking. As employers, states can implement this policy for more than 5 million individuals nationwide. This study identified the extent to which states require smoking cessati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Burns ME,Bosworth TW,Fiore MC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined agreement of administrative data with self-reported race/ethnicity and identified correlates of agreement. METHODS:We used Veterans Affairs administrative data and VA 1999 Large Health survey race/ethnicity data. RESULTS:Relatively low rates of agreement (approximately 60%) between data sources...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kressin NR,Chang BH,Hendricks A,Kazis LE

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the relationship of functional health literacy to self-reported health and use of health services. METHODS:Patients presenting to two large, urban public hospitals in Atlanta, Ga, and Torrance, Calif, were administered a health literacy test about their overall health and use of health c...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baker DW,Parker RM,Williams MV,Clark WS,Nurss J

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cultural divide between US military and civilian institutions amplifies the consequences of military discharge status on public health and criminal justice systems in a manner that is invisible to a larger society. Prompt removal of problematic wounded warriors through retributive justice is more expedient than le...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Seamone ER,McGuire J,Sreenivasan S,Clark S,Smee D,Dow D

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Sexual and reproductive health remains the contentious concept it was at the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt. In light of the recent 15-year review of ICPD, we suggest several areas where advocates, practitioners, and researchers can inform future...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Roseman MJ,Reichenbach L

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This analysis describes trends in the prevalence of genital chlamydial infection in economically disadvantaged young women entering a national job training program. METHODS:We examined chlamydia test data for May 1990 through June 1997 for women aged 16 to 24 years who enrolled in the program. The significa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mertz KJ,Ransom RL,St Louis ME,Groseclose SL,Hadgu A,Levine WC,Hayman C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing costs of institutional care for the aged have occasioned a variety of government cost containment measures. People with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) will be the principal group to suffer from cutbacks. SDAT patients are usually eligible for Intermediate Care Facilities (ICFs), rather than ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Brody EM,Lawton MP,Liebowitz B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The association between the timing of discussions about condoms between mother and adolescent and adolescents' condom use during their first and subsequent sexual encounters was examined. METHODS:Sexually active adolescents reported whether and when they discussed condoms with their mother and answered ques...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Miller KS,Levin ML,Whitaker DJ,Xu X

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean imm...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fruchter RG,Nayeri K,Remy JC,Wright C,Feldman JG,Boyce JG,Burnett WS

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined two major methadone treatment factors, visit frequency and methadone dose, posited to be important in reducing intravenous drug use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. METHODS:One hundred fifty opiate-dependent subjects randomly assigned to four groups received 50 or 80 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rhoades HM,Creson D,Elk R,Schmitz J,Grabowski J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and whether its activities infri...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kass NE

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00