Community health workers can be a public health force for change in the United States: three actions for a new paradigm.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to describe the extent and nature of contact with the health care system before suicide among veterans with substance use disorders (SUDs). METHODS:We examined all male Veterans Health Administration patients who died by suicide between October 1, 1999, and September 30, 2007, and who had a docume...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ilgen MA,Conner KR,Roeder KM,Blow FC,Austin K,Valenstein M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Syphilis in the United States is focally distributed, with high incidence rates in the South and in metropolitan areas nationwide. In this study an ecological analysis, using the county as the unit of analysis, was performed to generate hypotheses about community-level determinants of syphilis rates. METHOD...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kilmarx PH,Zaidi AA,Thomas JC,Nakashima AK,St Louis ME,Flock ML,Peterman TA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study, using data abstracted between 1983 and 1987 from a large perinatal registry, was conducted to explore the relationship between smoking and ectopic pregnancy. Women with ectopic pregnancy (n = 634) seen at University of Illinois Perinatal Network Hospitals were compared to women who were delivered...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Handler A,Davis F,Ferre C,Yeko T

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed trends in HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users in New York City from 1990 to 1997. METHODS:Injection drug users were recruited continuously from a large drug detoxification treatment program (N = 2588) and a research storefront located in a high-drug-use area (N = 2701). Informe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Des Jarlais C,Perlis T,Friedman SR,Chapman T,Kwok J,Rockwell R,Paone D,Milliken J,Monterroso E

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the relationships between wealth and income and selected racial and ethnic differences in health. METHODS:Cross-sectional data on a national sample of 9744 men and women aged 51 through 61 from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey were analyzed to examine the association between socioec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kington RS,Smith JP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of body fatness and leanness is examined in an ongoing prospective nutrition and growth study. Individual skinfold thicknesses, relative weights, weight gains, activity levels, and caloric intakes were examined at seven ages between 6 months and 9 years. Changes in body fatness in this group of childre...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shapiro LR,Crawford PB,Clark MJ,Pearson DL,Raz J,Huenemann RL

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving oral health is a leading population health goal; however, curricula preparing health professionals have a dearth of oral health content and clinical experiences. We detail an educational and clinical innovation transitioning the traditional head, ears, eyes, nose, and throat (HEENT) examination to the additi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Haber J,Hartnett E,Allen K,Hallas D,Dorsen C,Lange-Kessler J,Lloyd M,Thomas E,Wholihan D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The heuristic of market individualism offers three tools for analyzing the problems of governing: the supremacy of the free...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Burris S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologists have expressed concern about constraints upon the conduct of epidemiological research imposed by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), attorneys, and both institutional and individual health services providers. The epidemiologists assert that these constraints, not necessarily required by law or sound po...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hershey N

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use by 901 high school students in two Arkansas communities, and identified factors associated with initiation and maintenance. Results showed that 36.7 per cent of males and 2.2 per cent of females currently used smokeless tobacco. Modal responses indicated that if smok...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marty PJ,McDermott RJ,Williams T

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：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：:For systematic reviews to have an impact on public health, they must report outcomes that are important for decision-making. Systematic reviews of public health interventions, however, have a range of potential end users, and identifying and prioritizing the most important and relevant outcomes represents a considerab...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wolfenden L,Movsisyan A,McCrabb S,Stratil JM,Yoong SL

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hospitalization of nursing home residents is a growing, poorly defined problem. The purposes of this study were to define rates, patterns, costs, and outcomes of hospitalizations from nursing homes and to consider implications for reducing this problem as part of health care reform. METHODS:Communitywide nu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Barker WH,Zimmer JG,Hall WJ,Ruff BC,Freundlich CB,Eggert GM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the costs associated with reducing class sizes in kindergarten through grade 3 as well as the effects of small class sizes on selected outcomes such as quality-adjusted life-years and future earnings. METHODS:We used multiple data sets to predict changes in the outcomes assessed according to le...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Muennig P,Woolf SH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data were employed from confirmed measles case reports and an immunization survey to estimate the apparent effectiveness of measles vaccine in Los Angeles County in 1976. We evaluated the age-specific proportions of our case load arising from persons erroneously thought to possess immunity. Thirty five per cent of our...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Strassburg MA,Greenland S,Fannin SL

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：:Four years have passed since the institution of the cease-fire in Yugoslavia, and questions remain as to how Kosovar women are faring in the country's postwar reconstruction. Reports, albeit fragmented, suggest that violence against women began to increase in 1998 and 1999. This trend continued through 2001, even whil...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Desai S,Perry MJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 13-year period, 59 per cent of 28,561 smokers decreased the tar and nicotine (T/N) level in the cigarettes they smoked without changing the number of cigarettes smoked to any important extent. On the other hand, more than 54 per cent of the "less than one pack a day" smokers as compared to only 25 per cent of t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Garfinkel L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to analyze overall and cause-specific mortality among injection drug users in Rome. METHODS:A cohort of 4200 injection drug users was enrolled in drug treatment centers from 1980 through 1988 and followed up until December 1992. RESULTS:The age-adjusted mortality rate from all ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davoli M,Perucci CA,Rapiti E,Bargagli AM,D'Ippoliti D,Forastiere F,Abeni D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) depends on the capacity of local communities to mobilize for action. Yet the literature offers few systematic investigations of what communities are doing to ensure support for enrollment. In this empirical case study, we report implementation and outcomes of ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fawcett SB,Sepers CE,Jones J,Jones L,McKain W

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Doctor of Public Health degree is designed to build leadership skills and an ability to contribute to the evidence base of practice. The competency-based, distance-format, doctoral-level program for midcareer professionals features an action learning appr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lenihan P,Welter C,Brandt-Rauf P,Neuberger B,Pinsker E,Petros M,Risley K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated how persons from key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure interpreted the process and outcomes of the Step Study HIV-1 vaccine trial, which was terminated early, and implications for willingness to participate in and community support for HIV vaccine research. METHODS:We used qualitati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Newman PA,Logie C,James L,Charles T,Maxwell J,Salam K,Woodford M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated changes in community-based agencies following the implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system for hospitals utilizing DRGs (diagnosis-related groups). Data were collected in 1986 and 1987 from 771 community service providers. There were five major findings: 1) hospital discharge planners,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wood JB,Estes CL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why are men more susceptible to heart disease than women? Traditional risk factors cannot explain the gender gap in coronary heart disease (CHD) or the rapid increase in CHD mortality among middle-aged men in many of the newly independent states of Eastern Europe. However, Eastern European men score higher on stress-r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Weidner G,Cain VS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child maltreatment among children in the United States. METHODS:We used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child Files (2003-2014) and Census data to develop synthetic cohort life tables to estimate the cumulative prevalence of...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kim H,Wildeman C,Jonson-Reid M,Drake B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of feedback and financial incentives on physician compliance with cancer screening guidelines for women 50 years of age and older in a Medicaid health maintenance organization (HMO). METHODS:Half of 52 primary care sites received the intervention, which inc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hillman AL,Ripley K,Goldfarb N,Nuamah I,Weiner J,Lusk E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To describe partnerships between US local health departments (LHDs) and community organizations and assess the relationship between the types of activities performed in these partnerships and LHD engagement in population-based activities to prevent mental health conditions.Methods. Data were derived from 4...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nelson KL

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclone Hudah struck the northeastern coast of Madagascar in the spring of 2000. Over a 5-month period, 11 700 relief kits consisting of bottles of water disinfectant and foldable jerry cans were distributed to the affected population. Five months after the cyclone, a survey was conducted in 12 villages to determine t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mong Y,Kaiser R,Ibrahim D,Rasoatiana,Razafimbololona L,Quick RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of giardiasis occurred following a family party for 25 persons. Nine who had eaten fruit salad became ill, compared with one who had not eaten the salad (Relative Risk = 7.4, 95% CI = 1.4, 169.3). The fruit salad preparer had a diapered child and a pet rabbit at home who were both positive for Giardia lamb...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Porter JD,Gaffney C,Heymann D,Parkin W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00