Morbidity risk at birth for Asian Indian small for gestational age infants.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the relationship between ability to speak English and receipt of Papanicolaou tests, clinical breast examinations, and mammography in a multiethnic group of women in the United States. METHODS:We used longitudinal data from the Study of Women Across the Nation to examine receipt of breast and ce...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jacobs EA,Karavolos K,Rathouz PJ,Ferris TG,Powell LH

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the first reported cases of individuals with mental retardation who have subsequently become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The implications of this finding for agencies which provide services to persons with mental retardation are described. Where conflicts arise, the authors propose tha...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kastner TA,Hickman ML,Bellehumeur D

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a phone survey of 1,669 San Francisco Hispanics ages 15 to 64 years. The age-adjusted overall smoking prevalence was 25.4 per cent (95% CI = 23.3, 27.5) with more men (32.4 per cent) smoking than women (16.8 per cent). Age-adjusted smoking rates were higher among the less acculturated males (37.5 vs 26.7 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Marin G,Perez-Stable EJ,Marin BV

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case control study was conducted in North Carolina to explore the relation between individual exposure to sunlight and the risk of cataracts. One hundred thirteen cases and 161 controls aged 40-69 at diagnosis were studied. Sunlight exposure was inferred from interview data on residency and time spent in the sun, co...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Collman GW,Shore DL,Shy CM,Checkoway H,Luria AS

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study reports the results of a behavior change intervention offered to women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection seen in an urban primary health care clinic. METHODS:Participants were 197 women randomly assigned to either an HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk re...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kelly JA,Murphy DA,Washington CD,Wilson TS,Koob JJ,Davis DR,Ledezma G,Davantes B

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptually, the only element that all Latin American countries share is not language, race, or culture, but political: the presence of United States foreign policy as pronounced in the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. The political relation between the US and Latin America has colored US domestic policy toward its populatio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hayes-Bautista DE,Chapa J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Policymakers, researchers, and citizens are beginning to recognize the need to limit minors' access to tobacco by restricting the sale of cigarettes through vending machines. One policy alternative that has been proposed by the tobacco industry is a requirement that vending machines be fitted with electronic...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Forster JL,Hourigan ME,Kelder S

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1978 to 1983, researchers at the University of North Carolina conducted a National Evaluation of Rural Primary Care Programs. Thirty years later, many of the programs they studied have closed, but the challenges of providing rural health care have persisted. I explored the histories of 4 surviving rural primary c...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wright DB

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of legislation requiring deposits for beverage containers on the incidence of lacerations in urban children. Records of emergency room visits for lacerations and fractures were reviewed for three years pre-legislation (1980-82) and the immediate post-legislation period (1983). The incidence of to...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baker MD,Moore SE,Wise PH

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series completion and examined predictors of completion among adolescents and young adults in a large family planning network. METHODS:Our retrospective cohort study of vaccine completion within 12 months and time to completion used electronic health record da...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Simons HR,Unger ZD,Lopez PM,Kohn JE

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated whether nonstandard work schedules by mothers were associated with adolescent overweight. METHODS:We conducted multiple regression analyses using a sample of mother-child pairs (n=2353) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the association between the number of years moth...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Miller DP,Han WJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the cesarean rates in different child policy periods and assess the medical necessity of cesareans during the 2-child policy period. METHODS:We collected hospital-level aggregate data on 93 745 deliveries and individual-level data on 27 977 deliveries from 6 hospitals in the Hubei and Gansu prov...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Liao Z,Zhou Y,Li H,Wang C,Chen D,Liu J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We systematically reviewed the literature on the impact of returning to work on health among working-aged adults. METHODS:We searched 6 electronic databases in 2005. We selected longitudinal studies that documented a transition from unemployment to employment and included a comparison group. Two reviewers i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rueda S,Chambers L,Wilson M,Mustard C,Rourke SB,Bayoumi A,Raboud J,Lavis J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because there has been a recent trend toward delay of childbearing in the United States, women in the birth cohort of 1945-49 will have an estimated 5 per cent greater incidence of breast cancer, and those in the cohort of 1950-54 an estimated 9 per cent greater incidence compared with the cohort of 1935-39, which had...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： White E

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:We reviewed evidence of the relationship between job strain and ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) in 29 studies (1985-2012). We conducted a quantitative meta-analysis on 22 cross-sectional studies of a single exposure to job strain. We systematically reviewed 1 case-control study, 3 studies of cumulative exposure to job...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Landsbergis PA,Dobson M,Koutsouras G,Schnall P

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine-131 was found to dominate the gamma spectra of dried sludge and concentration liquid effluent samples from a sewage treatment plant serving the area containing the Texas Medical Center in 1975. The concentration of Iodine-131 varied considerably on a time scale of weeks but was fairly stable in the course of a ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Prichard HM,Gesell TF,Davis E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The State-Wide Rural Well-Water Survey was conducted between April 1988 and June 1989. About 18% of Iowa's private, rural drinking-water wells contain nitrate above the recommended health advisory level (levels of NO3-N greater than 10 mg/L); 37% of the wells have levels greater than 3 mg/L, typically considered indic...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kross BC,Hallberg GR,Bruner DR,Cherryholmes K,Johnson JK

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined longitudinal changes in smoking behavior among older adults in three community cohorts of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. Smoking prevalence declined from 15% at baseline to 9% during 6 years of follow-up. Annual smoking cessation and relapse rates were 10% and less th...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Salive ME,Cornoni-Huntley J,LaCroix AZ,Ostfeld AM,Wallace RB,Hennekens CH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of age specific rates of psychiatric admissions within Brooklyn, New York, indicated that population density may function as an intervening variable in the production of mental illness. Measures of household and family contact were found to be significantly correlated to four rates of hospital utilizati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schweitzer L,Su WH

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of stress in childhood have used instruments containing items describing events/conditions thought by adults to be stressful for children. In interviews with 5th- and 6th-grade children, we asked them to describe circumstances that would make or had made them feel bad, nervous, or worried. After prete...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lewis CE,Siegel JM,Lewis MA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

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：:In 1976 the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua began a low cost program to deliver simple health services in rural areas through trained traditional birth attendants or "parteras." After two years the program had prepared 768 parteras in a five-day training course. Parteras were equipped with a kit that included oral reh...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Heiby JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides the first estimated prevalence of implanted orthopedic fixation devices (e.g., pins or wires) among children in the United States, based on the Medical Device Implant Supplement to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey. The overall prevalence was 27 per 10,000 children younger than 18 years; pr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Moore RM Jr,Bright RA,Jeng LL,Sharkness CM,Hamburger SE,Hamilton PM

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Recent theoretical studies suggest that the earth's ozone layer which filters ultraviolet radiation may be depleted by a fleet of supersonic transports or by continued use of chlorofluoromethanes. It is now generally accepted that short wavelength ultraviolet radiation leads to the development of skin cancer. In this ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fears TR,Scotto J,Schneiderman MA

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few data are available on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and risk behaviors among lesbians and bisexual women. A total of 498 lesbians and bisexual women was sampled from public venues in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif, during 1993. The overall HIV seroprevalence was 1.2%. Ten percent of participants ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lemp GF,Jones M,Kellogg TA,Nieri GN,Anderson L,Withum D,Katz M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the impact of changes in dimensions of the psychosocial work environment on risk of depression in a longitudinal cohort of Canadian workers who were free of depression when work conditions were initially reported. METHODS:Using a sample (n = 3735) from the Canadian National Population Health Sur...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Smith PM,Bielecky A

更新日期：2012-02-01 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