Characteristics of physically active smokers and implications for harm reduction.

abstract：:In 2004, Murray et al. reviewed methodological developments in the design and analysis of group-randomized trials (GRTs). We have updated that review with developments in analysis of the past 13 years, with a companion article to focus on developments in design. We discuss developments in the topics of the earlier rev...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Turner EL,Prague M,Gallis JA,Li F,Murray DM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine per cent of 1,900 randomly selected adult Health Plan members received one or more tetanus injections during a 10-year period of continuous eligibility. Age-specific immunization rates decreased from 47 per cent for 20-39 year olds to 28 per cent for those over age 70. Nearly half of the elderly, age 60+, ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mullooly JP

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the efficacy of a simple, visual cue to increase hand washing with soap and water. Automated towel dispensers in 8 public bathrooms were set to present a towel either with or without activation by users. We set the 2 modes to operate alternately for 10 weeks. Wireless sensors were used to record entry into b...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ford EW,Boyer BT,Menachemi N,Huerta TR

更新日期：2014-10-01 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 identified factors associated with inpatient hospitalizations among a population-based cohort of homeless adults in Toronto, Ontario. METHODS:We recruited participants from shelters and meal programs. We then linked them to administrative databases to capture hospital admissions during the study (2005-20...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chambers C,Katic M,Chiu S,Redelmeier DA,Levinson W,Kiss A,Hwang SW

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed the effectiveness of a family planning intervention with and without husband's participation in reducing pregnancy and abortion rates in Shanghai, China. METHODS:In this 3-arm randomized trial among 1800 nonsterilized married women, educational interventions targeting both spouses and ta...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wang CC,Vittinghoff E,Hua LS,Yun WH,Rong ZM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined associations between premigration political violence exposure and past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among immigrant men attending community health centers in Boston. METHODS:A convenience sample of immigrant men (N = 379; aged 18-35 years), largely from the Caribbean and Cap...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gupta J,Acevedo-Garcia D,Hemenway D,Decker MR,Raj A,Silverman JG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports register data concerning somatic and psychiatric hospital care on 117 battered women who were identified in a surgical emergency department and offered a treatment program. Data were collected during a period of 10 years before to 5 years after the battering in question. It was concluded that the ba...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bergman B,Brismar B

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated enforcement of mental health benefits provided by California Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program. Enforcement, compelled by a consumer-driven lawsuit, resulted in an almost 4-fold funding increase over a 5-year period. We evaluated the impact of enforcement on ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Snowden LR,Masland MC,Wallace NT,Evans-Cuellar A

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:This work was undertaken to determine whether there are any chronic neurological sequelae to acute organophosphate pesticide poisoning. METHODS:California surveillance data were used in a study of neurological function among 128 men poisoned by organophosphate pesticides in California from 1982 to 1990 and ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Steenland K,Jenkins B,Ames RG,O'Malley M,Chrislip D,Russo J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of CVS Health's discontinuation of tobacco sales on cigarette purchasing. METHODS:We used households' purchasing data to assess rates at which households stopped cigarette purchasing for at least 6 months during September 2014 to August 2015 among 3 baseline groups: CVS-exclusive cigare...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Polinski JM,Howell B,Gagnon MA,Kymes SM,Brennan TA,Shrank WH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:California's Proposition 36 offers nonviolent drug offenders community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration or probation without treatment. We examined how treatment capacity changed to accommodate Proposition 36 clients and whether displacement of other clients was an unintended consequence. ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hser YI,Teruya C,Brown AH,Huang D,Evans E,Anglin MD

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Just before and 4 months after initiation of a condom giveaway program, a questionnaire regarding sexual behavior and condom acquisition was administered to 103 men attending an outpatient drug abuse treatment clinic. Jars filled with a variety of condoms were placed in every clinic room. Condom taking varied as a fun...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Calsyn DA,Meinecke C,Saxon AJ,Stanton V

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify payments that involved opioid products from the pharmaceutical industry to physicians. METHODS:We used the Open Payments program database from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify payments involving an opioid to physicians between August 2013 and December 2015. We used medi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hadland SE,Krieger MS,Marshall BDL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reviews are generating valuable scientific knowledge about the impact of public health laws, but this knowledge is not readily accessible to policy makers. We identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Moulton AD,Mercer SL,Popovic T,Briss PA,Goodman RA,Thombley ML,Hahn RA,Fox DM

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：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：:Training in environmental health in general, and pediatric environmental health in particular, is inadequate. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry began to develop pediatric environmental health specialty units (PEHSUs) after noting the dearth of practitioners who could evaluate and manage children wit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Paulson JA,Karr CJ,Seltzer JM,Cherry DC,Sheffield PE,Cifuentes E,Buka I,Amler RW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a decade-long resurgence, including a large cutaneous diphtheria outbreak in Washington State, the diphtheria incidence rate in the United States reached its lowest recorded level ever in 1980--two patients (0.01 case per million). Mortality paralleled the decline in incidence rate. Only 143 of the 3,141 US coun...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chen RT,Broome CV,Weinstein RA,Weaver R,Tsai TF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We administered the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale to 547 San Francisco Latinos as part of a random digit dialing telephone survey to evaluate smoking behavior. Both men and women current smokers had the highest mean CES-D levels (9.7 and 14.3, respectively). Logistic regression analysis a...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Pérez-Stable EJ,Marín G,Marín BV,Katz MH

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This field study tested the feasibility and benefits of a program to promote 6 targeted parental behaviors to prevent obesity in children served by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). METHODS:Two WIC sites participated in a nonrandomized, controlled 1-year pros...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McGarvey E,Keller A,Forrester M,Williams E,Seward D,Suttle DE

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We measured symptom and influenza prevalence, and the effectiveness of symptom and temperature screening for identifying influenza, in arriving international airline travelers. METHODS:This cross-sectional study collected data from travelers to Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand, in winter 2008...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Priest PC,Jennings LC,Duncan AR,Brunton CR,Baker MG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in pregnant women in rural South Africa and to determine the value of using abnormal urogenital symptoms to identify infected women. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study of 327 patients attending prenatal clini...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sturm AW,Wilkinson D,Ndovela N,Bowen S,Connolly C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little population-based information is available on the use of chiropractic services. METHODS:We analyzed data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), a community-based study of the use of health services. Insurance claim forms for all fee-for-service patients who completed the study were examined ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shekelle PG,Brook RH

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective review was undertaken of the records of 725 children who attended the neurodevelopmental clinic at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. Most children presented at an early age (less than 2-6 years). The etiological factors were prenatal, 4 per cent; perinatal, 41 per cent; postnatal, 21 pe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rubin IL,Davis M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We identified courses of depressive symptoms in an epidemiological sample of emerging adults. METHODS:We used latent class growth modeling to identify trajectories of depressive symptoms measured by the 12-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during a 14-year follow-up of 2825 Ca...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ferro MA,Gorter JW,Boyle MH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether a newborn home visiting program for primiparous adolescent mothers (aged 16-20 years at childbirth) reduced recurrence of child maltreatment in child protective services (CPS) reports. METHODS:We conducted a randomized controlled trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide ho...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Easterbrooks MA,Kotake C,Fauth R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00