US health educators' likelihood of adopting genomic competencies into health promotion.

abstract：:We examined initiation patterns among different birth cohorts of people who used prescription opioids and heroin because of historical differences in drug use availability. We examined data from a community-based study of persons who inject drugs (n = 483) in California and a general population survey from the Nationa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Novak SP,Bluthenthal R,Wenger L,Chu D,Kral AH

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural, socioeconomic, and genetic perspectives. From a cultural and social perspective, Latinos represent a wide variety of national origins and ethni...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： González Burchard E,Borrell LN,Choudhry S,Naqvi M,Tsai HJ,Rodriguez-Santana JR,Chapela R,Rogers SD,Mei R,Rodriguez-Cintron W,Arena JF,Kittles R,Perez-Stable EJ,Ziv E,Risch N

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The history of consumer protection against household poisons presents a key case study of the uniquely American struggle to balance public health and safety with the interests of business. By the late 19th century, package designs, warning labels, and state statutes had formed an uneven patchwork of protective mechani...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jones MM,Benrubi ID

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Within the most heavily affected cities, a few neighborhoods account for a large share of new HIV infections. Addressing racial and economic disparities in HIV infection requires an implementation program and research agenda that...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nunn A,Yolken A,Cutler B,Trooskin S,Wilson P,Little S,Mayer K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the all-cause mortality experience, following a fracture of the hip, of 712,027 persons covered by the Medicare program from 1984 through 1987. White women experienced the lowest mortality rate (17.2 per 1000 person-months), followed by Black women (22.9 per 1000 person-months), Black men (33.5 pe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jacobsen SJ,Goldberg J,Miles TP,Brody JA,Stiers W,Rimm AA

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the number of deaths attributable to secondhand smoke (SHS), years of potential life lost (YPLL), and value of lost productivity for different US racial/ethnic groups in 2006. METHODS:We determined the number of SHS-related deaths among nonsmokers from 2 adult and 4 infant conditions using an e...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Max W,Sung HY,Shi Y

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most health research with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people has focused on tribal communities on reservation lands. Few studies have been conducted with AI/AN people living in urban settings despite their documented health disparities compared with other urban populations. There are unique consideration...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yuan NP,Bartgis J,Demers D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As incorporated in Healthy People 2010 objectives, data and information systems and a skilled workforce are 2 of the critical components of the public health infrastructure. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) are important resources for improving Internet a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Humphreys BL,Ruffin AB,Cahn MA,Rambo N

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This report examines the impact of an economic embargo from 1991 to 1994 on health, well-being, and human rights in Haiti. METHODS:Data from surveillance systems for nutrition, reportable diseases, and hospital diagnoses were combined with survey data and interviews with affected women, governmental represe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gibbons E,Garfield R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis was performed of direct maternal mortality over 22 years (1950 through 1971) in the state of Michigan. The overall direct maternal mortality rate fell from 5.0/10,000 live births in 1950 to 1.5 in 1971. The rate among nonwhites was more than four times greater than among whites and the difference in relati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schaffner W,Federspiel CF,Fulton ML,Gilbert DG,Stevenson LB

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brazil is the world's fifth largest and sixth most populous nation. Its economy is varied, with strong manufacturing, agriculture, mining, and service sectors. Therefore, a wide variety of workplace hazards confronts its work force. This paper describes Brazil's occupational safety and health regulatory sche...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Frumkin H,Câmara Vde M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To assess the association between exposure to the US criminal legal system and well-being.Methods. We used data from the 2018 Family History of Incarceration Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional study of family incarceration experience (n = 2815), which includes measures of participants' own...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sundaresh R,Yi Y,Roy B,Riley C,Wildeman C,Wang EA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the proportion and characteristics of patients who do not regularly visit general health care providers but do visit dentists and whose unaddressed systemic health conditions could therefore be identified by their dentist. Of the 26.0% of children and 24.1% of adults that did not access general outpatient ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Strauss SM,Alfano MC,Shelley D,Fulmer T

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether it would be feasible to replace the standard measure of net worth with simpler measures of wealth in population-based studies examining associations between wealth and health. METHODS:We used data from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances (respondents aged 25-64 years) and the 2004 Healt...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cubbin C,Pollack C,Flaherty B,Hayward M,Sania A,Vallone D,Braveman P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review the contribution of the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS and NHS II) in addressing hypotheses regarding risk factors for and consequences of obesity. METHODS:Narrative review of the publications of the NHS and NHS II between 1976 and 2016. RESULTS:Long-term NHS research has shown that weight gain and ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hruby A,Manson JE,Qi L,Malik VS,Rimm EB,Sun Q,Willett WC,Hu FB

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Objectives. To examine if exposure to victimization (e.g., homicide, violence, sexual assault, arson, kidnapping) is related to health problems, health care access and barriers, and health needs-beyond the effects of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C)-among Somali women and adolescent girls.Methods. We colle...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fox KA,Johnson-Agbakwu C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared cervical cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, and survival in Medicaid-insured and non-Medicaid-insured populations. METHODS:We stratified the sample by age and used ordered logistic regression to predict stage at diagnosis and used Cox proportional hazards regression to predict survival. RESU...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bradley CJ,Given CW,Roberts C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1981 Child Health Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey were used to examine relationships between family and child characteristics and regular use of seatbelts or child restraints. Only for a third of children less than seven years old was regular seatbelt use reported. They were more likel...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Haaga J

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of a package of roadway modifications in New York City funded under the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program. METHODS:We used a Markov model to estimate long-term impacts of SRTS on injury reduction and the associated savings in medical costs, lifelong disability, and deat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Muennig PA,Epstein M,Li G,DiMaggio C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate a multicultural smoking prevention curriculum, 16 schools were randomized to receive the multicultural curriculum or a standard curriculum and program effects on 1-year smoking initiation among 1430 never smokers were assessed. Hispanic boys who received the multicultural curriculum were less likely to ini...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Unger JB,Chou CP,Palmer PH,Ritt-Olson A,Gallaher P,Cen S,Lichtman K,Azen S,Johnson CA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the effectiveness of an intervention targeting home food and activity environments to reduce energy intake and increase physical activity among overweight and obese patients from 3 community health centers in rural Georgia. METHODS:We conducted a randomized controlled trial (n = 349) from 2011 t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kegler MC,Haardörfer R,Alcantara IC,Gazmararian JA,Veluswamy JK,Hodge TL,Addison AR,Hotz JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The areal approach utilized in mortality analysis for cities in the past is argued to be fruitful for suburban mortality analysis as well. Through factor analysis of four Census Tract indicators, weighted scores were computed and socioeconomic groups were constructed for each central city and each suburban area for th...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yeracaris CA,Kim JH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight inner city mothers of third and fourth grade children in three racial groups--white, black, and American Indian--known to need dental treatment for disease on permanent teeth, were interviewed at home by a trained community resident interviewer. Sixty-two per cent of the mothers were on public assistance...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Frazier PJ,Jenny J,Bagramian RA,Robinson E,Proshek JM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated the psychological effects of paid employment and nonemployment, cross-sectionally and longitudinally, in 541 middle-aged women. METHODS:Women were seen for an extensive baseline evaluation and were reevaluated in an identical manner 3 years later. They were divided into four "synthet...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bromberger JT,Matthews KA

更新日期：1994-02-01 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:We evaluated the impact of a mailed, tailored intervention on skin cancer prevention and skin self-examination behaviors of adults at moderate and high risk for skin cancer. METHODS:Adults at moderate and high risk for skin cancer were recruited in primary health care settings in Honolulu, HI, and Long Isla...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Glanz K,Schoenfeld ER,Steffen A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies of adolescent smoking suggest that the causes of smoking initiation may differ for Blacks and Whites. METHODS:Correlates of smoking initiation were examined among 1,277 nonsmokers, ages 12-14, who completed questionnaires in their homes. The analyses examined relationships between smoking initiation...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Headen SW,Bauman KE,Deane GD,Koch GG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00