Attempts to undermine tobacco control: tobacco industry "youth smoking prevention" programs to undermine meaningful tobacco control in Latin America.

abstract：:The average number of visits to a physician made by a sample of 351 residents of homes insulated with urea formaldehyde foam insulation in Montreal in the one year period before exposure was 5.25, and in the year following 5.62, an increase of 7 per cent (odds ratio 1.07, 95% CI = 1.00, 1.15). The increase in visits i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： L'Abbé KA,Hoey JR,Hanley J,Wacholder S,Nantel A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to evaluate outcomes of the Veterans Administration (VA) Afghan and Iraq Post-Deployment Screen for mental health symptoms. METHODS:Veterans Administration clinicians were encouraged to refer Iraq or Afghanistan veterans who screened positive for posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, or high-...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Seal KH,Bertenthal D,Maguen S,Gima K,Chu A,Marmar CR

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washington State hospitals were queried about the fate of 507 infants born in 1978-79 for whom no linked death certificate existed. Only ten previously unregistered deaths were discovered, raising mortality for this group by 2.5 per cent. In addition, 13 previously unmatched death records were linked to birth records,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Frost F,Jennings T,Starzyk P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined factors associated with completing, initiating, or intending to pursue voluntary national accreditation among local health departments (LHDs). METHODS:We examined National Association of County and City Health Officials 2010 and 2013 profile data in a pooled cross-sectional design with bivariate...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yeager VA,Ferdinand AO,Beitsch LM,Menachemi N

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many assertions have been made about the competence of juries in dealing with expert evidence. I review the types of expert evidence that jurors hear and the impact of adversary legal procedure on the form and manner in which evidence is presented. Empirical research indicates that jurors understand the adversary proc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Vidmar N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated environmental lead pollution and its impact on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) in a rural area of China. METHODS:In 2007, we studied 379 children younger than 15 years living in 7 villages near lead mines and processing plants, along with a control group of 61 children from another villa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lin S,Wang X,Yu IT,Tang W,Miao J,Li J,Wu S,Lin X

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of tuberculosis control programs compile information about the number, location, bacteriologic status, and chemotherapy status of tuberculosis patients within their jurisdiction. Reports from these programs show that during the 1970s the prevalence of patients requiring supervision decreased three t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Powell KE,Brown ED,Seggerson JJ,Farer LS

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cohorts of urban women who delivered a child before reaching age 18 were followed for periods ranging from 6 to 12 years to determine use of abortion and sterilization. The two more recent cohorts had been served by comprehensive service programs. About 40 per cent of each of teh groups used abortion or steriliza...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jekel JF,Tyler NC,Klerman LV

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We present an applied example of social network diagramming from 2010 to 2012 that was used to guide follow-up in a large HCV cluster in rural Wisconsin. METHODS:In addition to collecting standard individual-level attributes, we also obtained partner-level information. Both sets of data were input into a ne...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Grande KM,Stanley M,Redo C,Wergin A,Guilfoyle S,Gasiorowicz M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unusual resistance of the "unconventional viruses" to inactivation by the commonly used disinfectants has led to a high degree of apprehension regarding patients with any form of dementia. The rapid adaptation of a newly acquired isolate of the agent of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) to mice made possible this la...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Walker AS,Inderlied CB,Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 10,524 homeless veterans assessed in a 43-site VA program, 50 percent served during the Vietnam War era, compared to only 29 percent of all veterans in the general population. This reflects the greater risk of homelessness among men aged 30-44 rather than the impact of Vietnam Era service. The proportion of homeles...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rosenheck R,Gallup P,Leda CA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Bank began operations on June 25, 1946. Although it was established to finance European reconstruction after World War II, the bank today is a considerable force in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector in developing countries. Indeed, it has evolved from having virtually no presence in global h...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ruger JP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To quantify changes in US health care spending required to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030 or 2040 and identify historical precedents for these changes.Methods. We analyzed multiple sources of historical and projected spending from 1970 through 2040. Parity was defined as the Organisation f...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McCullough JM,Speer M,Magnan S,Fielding JE,Kindig D,Teutsch SM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-week belt use law publicity and enforcement campaign in Elmira, New York, in November 1985, increased use from 49 per cent to 77 per cent; four months later belt use was 66 per cent. A reminder program, in April 1986, increased belt use to 80 per cent; use declined to 69 per cent four months later and to 60 pe...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Williams AF,Preusser DF,Blomberg RD,Lund AK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The French health system combines universal coverage with a public-private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and consumer satisfaction are high; its expenditures, as a share of...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rodwin VG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to identify correlates of forced sex perpetration among men and victimization among women in Botswana and Swaziland. METHODS:We surveyed a 2-stage probability sample of 2074 adults from the 5 districts of Botswana with the highest HIV prevalence rates and all 4 regions of Swaziland. We used multiv...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Tsai AC,Leiter K,Heisler M,Iacopino V,Wolfe W,Shannon K,Phaladze N,Hlanze Z,Weiser SD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This prospective study examined the effect of tobacco marketing on progression to established smoking. METHODS:Massachusetts adolescents (n = 529) who at baseline had smoked no more than 1 cigarette were reinterviewed by telephone in 1997. Analyses examined the effect of receptivity to tobacco marketing at ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Biener L,Siegel M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic treatment regimes are an emerging and important methodological area in health research, particularly in the management of chronic health conditions. This paradigm encompasses the ideological shift in research from the acute care model to the chronic care model. It allows individualization of treatment (type, d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chakraborty B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mission of public health--improving the health of populations--is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first "language" of Amer...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wallack L,Lawrence R

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We examined socioeconomic inequalities in health among older adults in England and Brazil. METHODS:We analyzed nationally representative samples of residents aged 50 years and older in 2008 data from the Brazilian National Household Survey (n = 75,527) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n = 9589)...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lima-Costa MF,De Oliveira C,Macinko J,Marmot M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated the feasibility of combining an online chain recruitment method (respondent-driven detection) and participatory surveillance panels to collect previously undetected information on infectious diseases via social networks of participants. METHODS:In 2014, volunteers from 2 large panels in the ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Stein ML,van Steenbergen JE,Buskens V,van der Heijden PG,Koppeschaar CE,Bengtsson L,Thorson A,Kretzschmar ME

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Understanding more about the psychological state of persons notified of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is critical for designing notification and counseling programs that will have the most positive effect. METHODS:The subjects were blood donors who had been notified of HIV infection by the Ne...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cleary PD,Van Devanter N,Rogers TF,Singer E,Shipton-Levy R,Steilen M,Stuart A,Avorn J,Pindyck J

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on breast-feeding behavior have been sometimes found inadequate. The determinants of breast-feeding initiation and duration among WIC participants and nonparticipants were modeled by using retrospective cross-sectional dat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schwartz JB,Popkin BM,Tognetti J,Zohoori N

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We describe trends in receipt of preventive dental care among Medicaid-enrolled children in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2010, comparing the US children of immigrants with their co-ethnic peers in nonimmigrant families. METHODS:We analyzed Pennsylvania Medicaid claims, birth records, and census data for ch...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yun K,Chesnokova A,Shults J,Pinto A,Rubin DM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined trends and differentials in US childhood mortality from 1950 through 1993 according to sex, race/ethnicity, education, family income, and cause of death. METHODS:Log-linear, multiple regression, and Cox proportional hazards regression models were applied to the data from the National Vit...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Singh GK,Yu SM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated trends in disability among older Americans from 1988 through 2004 to test the hypothesis that more recent cohorts show increased burdens of disability. METHODS:We used data from 2 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1988-1994 and 1999-2004) to assess time trends in basic activ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Seeman TE,Merkin SS,Crimmins EM,Karlamangla AS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of 2 large field studies on the impact of the polio eradication initiative on health systems and 3 supplementary reports were presented at a December 1999 meeting convened by the World Health Organization. All of these studies concluded that positive synergies exist between polio eradication and health sys...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Loevinsohn B,Aylward B,Steinglass R,Ogden E,Goodman T,Melgaard B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study describes the costs and outcomes of community-based tuberculin screening programs conducted between 1987 and 1991 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. METHODS:Follow-up information was abstracted from hospital records of all reactors detected in tuberculin screening of students in grades 6 and 10, of fir...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Adhikari N,Menzies R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noneconomic factors can be critical to the outcome of an economic development program. Anyone with development experience will have no difficulty recalling instances where, despite good economic planning, failure to account for social, cultural, and/or health factors has resulted in program accomplishments which fell...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zukin P

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00