Common illnesses and self-care.

abstract：:Sugary drink consumption is associated with many adverse health outcomes, including weight gain, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. These beverages are widely marketed and ubiquitously available. This analysis explores sugary drink consumption across all age groups among New York City (NYC) residents using repres...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Elfassy T,Adjoian T,Lent M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization among female clients at three hair salons in Connecticut using an anonymous tablet based screening tool. While many may assume that women receive services at hair salons, victims of IPV are often isolated by their partners and unable to ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Beebe RF,DiVietro SC,Dunn M,Bentivegna K,Clough ME,Lapidus GD,Joseph DK

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latinas have the highest incidence of cervical cancer. Latino parents' perceptions of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and willingness to have their sons and daughters vaccinated in Utah is largely unknown. Latino parents/guardians of children ages 11-17 years were recruited from two community organizations (N = 52) to ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Warner EL,Lai D,Carbajal-Salisbury S,Garza L,Bodson J,Mooney K,Kepka D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threatened use of the smallpox virus in bioterrorist attacks recently prompted national concerns in the United States. Smallpox, the "speckled monster," was known in antiquity. In 1856, New York City opened its first hospital devoted to caring for victims of smallpox. Essentially, the hospital isolated and quarantined...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Spiegel AD,Kavaler F,Kucinski KM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the courts have indicated an increased vulnerability of the tobacco industry to civil lawsuits brought because of tobacco-related illness. Much of the recent public discussion has dealt with how to attack the public health problem of childhood smoking, and the judicial system may also be of help...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nusbaum NJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the characteristics of Chinese American smokers with medical conditions and factors associated with their tobacco-use behaviors will guide effective cessation programs. In 2008, the authors described socio-demographic profiles of Chinese smokers with medical conditions treated during the period 2002-2006...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Wong CC,Tong EK,Tsoh JY,Chen MJ,Hom FB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free clinics across the country provide free or reduced fee healthcare to individuals who lack access to primary care and are socio-economically disadvantaged. This study examined perceived health status among diabetic and non-diabetic free clinic patients and family members of the patients. Diabetes self-efficacy amo...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kamimura A,Christensen N,Myers K,Nourian MM,Ashby J,Greenwood JL,Reel JJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses the results from a community food security assessment survey of 684 residents and three focus groups in Pueblo County, Colorado to examine the question: what community and individual factors contribute to or alleviate food insecurity, and are these factors consistent throughout a sub-county population....

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Jablonski BB,McFadden DT,Colpaart A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firearm violence remains a significant problem in the US (with 2787 adolescents killed in 2015). However, the research on school firearm violence prevention practices and policies is scant. Parents are major stakeholders in relation to firearm violence by youths and school safety in general. The purpose of this study ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Payton E,Khubchandani J,Thompson A,Price JH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cervical cancer rates in the United States have declined sharply in recent decades, certain groups of women remain at elevated risk, including middle-aged and older women in central Appalachia. Cross-sectional baseline data from a community-based randomized controlled trial were examined to identify barriers ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Studts CR,Tarasenko YN,Schoenberg NE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable recent discussion has taken place regarding the predicted future shortage of physicians, especially in primary care. Much of the attention has focused on the difficulty of recruiting new physicians into primary care practice. It is suggested that part of the solution may be increased efforts to recruit an...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nusbaum NJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health disparities have long affected American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. Transformations are needed in academia to help understand Indigenous 'ways of knowing.' Lifting the voices of AI/ANs in telling their stories could improve the education of students, faculty and the lay public. We collaborated...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Carney PA,Taylor C,Frutos R,Spector D,Brodt E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of national programs in the past decade suggests that there is a developing consensus regarding the need for preventive services, but the proportion of them that physicians provide is decreasing. As teachers of preventive medicine, we should have a particular concern with the physician's performance in providin...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rabin DL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article unfortunately contains mistakes. 1. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Tobacco Use" subheading, the percentage should read "59.3%" rather than "55.6%". 2. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Secondhand Smoke Exposure" subheading, the percentage "28.2%" should rea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Petersen AB,Stewart HC,Walters J,Vijayaraghavan M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the effectiveness of strategies for the recruitment of American Indians (AIs) into research is needed. This study describes and compares methods for identifying and recruiting AI tobacco users into a pilot study. Community-based strategies were used to recruit smokers (n = 35), e-cigarette users (n = 28), and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Carroll DM,Brame LS,Stephens LD,Wagener TL,Campbell JE,Beebe LA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the cholera outbreak in Haiti demonstrated just how unprepared the country is to rapidly isolate an outbreak of this magnitude, and its vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic. This communication briefly examines the health system in Haiti and its vulnerability toward the COVID-19 outbreak. ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Louis-Jean J,Cenat K,Sanon D,Stvil R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a statewide public health approach to strengthen diabetes care; evaluates diabetes-related processes of care for individuals enrolled in the Michigan Diabetes Outreach Network (MDON) program; and, examines MDON in the context of priorities for diabetes care and public health policy. Organizational...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Krein SL,Klamerus ML

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine how healthy weight status among youth was related to (i) three proximity-based park variables: number of parks within 1 km of home, total area of parkland within 1 km, and distance to the closest park from home, and (ii) the availability of 13 specific park facilities within 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Potwarka LR,Kaczynski AT,Flack AL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia disproportionately reside in communities with limited access to healthy foods. Collaborations with local corner stores to provide healthy food options have been identified as an evidence-based intervention that could be used to increase food access. This paper describes the commun...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rollins L,Carey T,Proeller A,Anne Adams M,Hooker M,Lyn R,Taylor O,Holden K,Henry Akintobi T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical inspection of immigrants arriving in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was framed by a need to rapidly process large numbers of people. Scientific medicine, such as it was then, was subordinate to the existing immigration laws which reflected the influences of the power...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Imperato PJ,Imperato GH

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that members of the public have a skewed sense of health risk. The purpose of this research was to investigate how mass media use influences perceptions of threat from cancer and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). Investigators performed a media content analysis of 253 health-related articl...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Ackerson LK,Viswanath K

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While first-wave Vietnamese immigrants adapted well to life in the United States, subsequent immigrants have had greater adjustment difficulties, including more evidence of psychological distress. This study aimed to analyze psychosocial adaptation differences among three generations of recent Vietnamese immigrants, a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Shapiro J,Douglas K,de la Rocha O,Radecki S,Vu C,Dinh T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of patients who receive intensive medical treatment outside the hospital environment has increased steadily over the past two decades. Active cancer chemotherapy outpatients (N = 413) receiving treatment in the community were surveyed to document the prevalence and to identify the correlates of their da...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Guadagnoli E,Mor V

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV prevalence and socio-demographic data were analyzed to assess the alignment of CDC-funded HIV testing activity in 2012 with its high-impact prevention approach. CDC-funded HIV-testing was conducted in counties with high HIV prevalence and in places potentially more affected by HIV as measured by urbanicity, percen...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hayek S,Heitgerd JL,Williams WO,Krueger AL,Dietz PM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the mid-1980s, clinicians working in community and migrant health centers formed clinical networks to provide administrative and clinical training, regular interaction with peers, and opportunities for participation in policy formulation. The subject of this article is the most developed of the regional clinical...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sardell A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of data obtained through a survey of 415 men in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Rochester, New York, indicates that the transfer of testicular self-examination (TSE) skills from the medical community to the public has been relatively ineffective. Only two of every 100 respondents reported monthly self-examination...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sheley JP,Kinchen EW,Morgan DH,Gordon DF

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined program attendance and related outcomes for Compañeros en la Salud, a church-based culturally focused health promotion program specifically designed for low-acculturated, low-income Hispanic women. In this church-based study, the cancer prevention intervention was the major intervention group, and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lopez VA,Castro FG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Belgium and The Netherlands have fairly similar smoking prevalence patterns, but distinct tobacco control policies. It is our aim to use lung cancer death rates, especially among the youngest age groups (30-39 years), as indicators of past smoking behavioral patterns to evaluate recent tobacco control efforts in both ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Van Hemelrijck MJ,Kabir Z,Connolly GN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safe sleep practices reduce an infant's risk for sudden infant death syndrome and sleep-related death. While rates of infants placed on their back to sleep are high, other safe sleep practices are less widely implemented. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using cosmetologists as health promoters for inf...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Ahlers-Schmidt CR,Redmond ML,Struemph G,Hunninghake J,Nimeskern J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the degree of fit between the special needs of the elderly and the service mix and payment level of ambulatory services offered under the Medicare program is presented in this second part of a two-part study of geriatric office care. Results from interviews with a focus group of 60 practicing clinicians, i...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Fahs MC,Muller C,Schechter M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00