Community-based aftercare and return to custody in a national sample of substance-abusing women offenders.

abstract：:I describe variations in the structure and in the practice of rural public health and how rural communities meet the challenges of current public health practice, including primary methods of service delivery and partnership development. I present examples of promising models for the creation of rural public health ca...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Berkowitz B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The reported prevalence of occupational allergy to natural rubber latex is 8% to 17%, and that of latex-induced occupational asthma is 2.5% to 6%. Conversion of medical facilities to "latex-safe" can reduce employee sensitization, impairment, and disability. The purpose of this study was to determine the cos...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Phillips VL,Goodrich MA,Sullivan TJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate racial/ethnic and gender inequities in the compensation and benefits of US health care workers and assess the potential impact of a $15-per-hour minimum wage on their economic well-being. METHODS:Using the 2017 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, we compare...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Himmelstein KEW,Venkataramani AS

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. METHODS:We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005-2006 and 2010-2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code-lev...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cagney KA,Browning CR,Iveniuk J,English N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined medically treated injuries among US workers with disability. METHODS:Using 2006-2010 National Health Interview Survey data, we compared 3-month rates of nonoccupational and occupational injuries to workers with disability (n = 7729) and without disability (n = 175 947). We fitted multivariable l...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Price J,Shi J,Lu B,Smith GA,Stallones L,Wheeler KK,Xiang H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many people (40 per cent) receive each year some personal health service provided by local health departments. A substantial number of poor children (50 per cent) look to public agencies including health departments for all or part of their medical care. A number of departments including those represented in this stud...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Miller CA,Moos MK,Kotch JB,Brown ML,Brainard MP

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the association between multiple drug use and nonfatal overdose among young people (younger than 30 years) who inject drugs. METHODS:We completed a longitudinal study of 173 injection drug users younger than 30 years living in San Francisco, California, between April 2012 and February 2014. RE...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Riley ED,Evans JL,Hahn JA,Briceno A,Davidson PJ,Lum PJ,Page K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine how risk factors for disease vary among Asian subgroups. METHODS:Using data from a case-control study conducted at Northern California Kaiser Medical Centers (from 1996 to 2001), we compared prevalence of selected risk factors among Asian subgroups and evaluated the associations of th...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gomez SL,Kelsey JL,Glaser SL,Lee MM,Sidney S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined circumstances surrounding swimming pool drownings among US residents aged 5 to 24 years to understand why Black males and other racial/ethnic groups have high drowning rates. METHODS:We obtained data about drowning deaths in the United States (1995-1998) from death certificates, medical examiner ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Saluja G,Brenner RA,Trumble AC,Smith GS,Schroeder T,Cox C

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared cycling injury risks of 14 route types and other route infrastructure features. METHODS:We recruited 690 city residents injured while cycling in Toronto or Vancouver, Canada. A case-crossover design compared route infrastructure at each injury site to that of a randomly selected control site fro...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Teschke K,Harris MA,Reynolds CC,Winters M,Babul S,Chipman M,Cusimano MD,Brubacher JR,Hunte G,Friedman SM,Monro M,Shen H,Vernich L,Cripton PA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between December 2009 and January 2010, we conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of US adults (n = 1001; completion rate = 52.9%) to explore perceptions of risks associated with peak petroleum. We asked respondents to assess the likelihood that oil prices would triple over the next 5 years and then to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nisbet MC,Maibach E,Leiserowitz A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure levels were investigated in a population of diabetic persons who were diagnosed at 30 years of age or older and who received their primary medical care in an 11-county area in Southern Wisconsin. Prevalence of hypertension in these 5,104 persons was compared with prevalence figures from the Health and N...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Klein BE,Klein R,Moss SE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men entering gay bars in three small southern cities were administered questionnaires to assess AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) risk knowledge, perceived norms concerning the social acceptability of AIDS risk precautions, and personal sexual behavior. Seventy-seven percent (N = 355) of male patrons completed...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kelly JA,St Lawrence JS,Brasfield TL,Stevenson LY,Diaz YE,Hauth AC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study determined the effect of provider (nurse or teacher) and training method (workshop or self-preparation) on outcomes of a social influences smoking prevention program. METHODS:One hundred elementary schools were stratified by school risk score (high risk = high smoking rate among senior students) ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cameron R,Brown KS,Best JA,Pelkman CL,Madill CL,Manske SR,Payne ME

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Italian death rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) for all causes and for 12 selected aggregations of causes are reported for 1979 and 1983, with the latter compared to United States data. Cancer is the leading cause of YPLL in Italy (23.8 per cent of total YPLL), followed by unintentional injuries (16.3 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Arcà M,di Orio F,Forastiere F,Tasco C,Perucci CA

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：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:This study investigated the relationship between psychosocial and behavioral factors and the frequency of emergency department visits for childhood asthma. METHODS:Data obtained from a survey of parents of 445 children who were being treated for asthma in the emergency room of a large urban hospital were ex...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wasilewski Y,Clark NM,Evans D,Levison MJ,Levin B,Mellins RB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of antibody to LAV/HTLV-III among homosexual men attending a community clinic and a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Seattle, Washington in early 1985 was 42 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively. Seropositivity was apparently not related to age or number of sexual partners. The high prevalence o...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Collier AC,Barnes RC,Handsfield HH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mail survey of 1,650 elderly consumers evaluated prescription drug leaflets for antihypertensives, tranquilizers, and arthritis medicines. Of those who said they received the leaflet, 95 per cent read it, 76 per cent kept it, and 56 per cent discussed it with another person. Respondents taking antihypertensive medic...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Morris LA,Olins NJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The incidence, type, severity, and costs of crash-related injuries requiring hospitalization or resulting in death were compared for helmeted and unhelmeted motorcyclists. METHODS:This was a retrospective cohort study of injured motorcyclists in Washington State in 1989. Motorcycle crash data were linked to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rowland J,Rivara F,Salzberg P,Soderberg R,Maier R,Koepsell T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies. METHODS:We calculated correlations between rates of incarceration in state prisons and county jails and rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies for each of the 1...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thomas JC,Torrone E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We analyzed the relationship between physician migration from developing source countries to more developed host countries (brain drain) and the developmental and global health profiles of source countries. METHODS:We used a cross-section of 141 countries that lost emigrating physicians to the 4 major desti...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Arah OA,Ogbu UC,Okeke CE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Municipal swimming pools and wading pools were examined for the presence of human enteric viruses using a portable virus concentrator at the site to concentrate viruses from 100-gallon to 500-gallon samples. Ten of 14 samples contained viruses; three of these were positive for virus in the presence of residual free ch...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Keswick BH,Gerba CP,Goyal SM

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We determined whether a representative national probability sample of US community-dwelling older adults who reported less social support also reported poorer general health status, which is a robust predictor of prospective mortality among elders. METHODS:We analyzed 2 subsamples generated via random sampl...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White AM,Philogene GS,Fine L,Sinha S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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:We assessed the effectiveness of a 2-year multicomponent, school-based intervention designed to reduce tobacco use rates among adolescents in an urban area of India. METHODS:Students from 32 schools in Delhi and Chennai, India, were recruited and randomly assigned to an intervention or control group. Baseli...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Perry CL,Stigler MH,Arora M,Reddy KS

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined risk factors for injuries to nursing assistants from assaults by nursing home residents at both the individual and the organizational level. METHODS:We analyzed data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey that were linked to facility information from the 2004 National Nursing Home Surve...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tak S,Sweeney MH,Alterman T,Baron S,Calvert GM

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents data from an experimental project which distributed oral contraceptives, foam, and condoms to households in three rural areas of Haiti between January 1978 and March 1980. The contraceptive distribution had little apparent impact on traditional, prolonged breastfeeding patterns, and the percentage ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bordes A,Allman J,Verly A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemic of morbidity and mortality has swept across the United States related to the use of prescription opioids for chronic noncancer pain. More than 100,000 people have died from unintentional overdose, making this one of the worst manmade epidemics in history. Much of health care delivery in the United States i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Franklin G,Sabel J,Jones CM,Mai J,Baumgartner C,Banta-Green CJ,Neven D,Tauben DJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00