Changes in prevalence of HIV infection and sexual risk behavior in men who have sex with men in San Francisco: 1997 2002.

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:We compared childbirth-related outcomes for Medicaid recipients who received prenatal education and childbirth support from trained doulas with outcomes from a national sample of similar women and estimated potential cost savings. METHODS:We calculated descriptive statistics for Medicaid-funded births natio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kozhimannil KB,Hardeman RR,Attanasio LB,Blauer-Peterson C,O'Brien M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether school or nonschool environments contribute more to childhood overweight, we compared children's gains in body mass index (BMI) when school is in session (during the kindergarten and first-grade school years) with their gains in BMI when school is out (during summer vacation). METHODS:T...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： von Hippel PT,Powell B,Downey DB,Rowland NJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of environmental and biological monitoring for lead exposure were surveyed in lead-using industries in California. Employer self-reporting indicates a large proportion of potentially lead-exposed workers have never participated in a monitoring program. Only 2.6 percent of facilities have done environmental mo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rudolph L,Sharp DS,Samuels S,Perkins C,Rosenberg J

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To quantify the association between personal and family history of criminal justice system (CJS) involvement (PHJI and FHJI, respectively), health outcomes, and health-related behaviors.Methods. We examined 2017 New York City Community Health Survey data (n = 10 005) with multivariable logistic regression....

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baquero M,Zweig K,Angell SY,Meropol SB

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1915 launch of the first international eradication initiative targeting a human pathogen, much has been learned about the determinants of eradicability of an organism. The authors outline the first 4 eradication efforts, summarizing the lessons learned in terms of the 3 types of criteria for disease eradicat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Aylward B,Hennessey KA,Zagaria N,Olivé JM,Cochi S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reevaluate its employment of "race," a concept lacking scientific or anthropological justification, in cancer surveillance and other population research. The IOM advised the NIH to use a different population classificatio...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Oppenheimer GM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legislation in 1967 allowed abortions in North Carolina for reasons of mental or physical danger to the mother or child or in cases of rape. In 1971 the statute was changed to require 2 rather than 3 physicians in agreement, to reduce residency requirements from 4 months to 30 days, and mandatory reporting of all abo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Howell EM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of public health practices with federal health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) largely derives from three major factors: the sovereign nature of AI/AN tribes, the sociocultural characteristics exhibited by the tribes, and that AI/ANs are distinct populations residing in defined ge...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rhoades ER,Rhoades DA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumption and prices of tobacco products in Canada and the United States are compared over the period 1981 to 1989. In Canada, consumption has fallen from a higher level and at a faster rate than in the United States (3.52 kg/adult to 2.48 kg/adult vs 3.21 kg/adult to 2.48 kg/adult). With respect to cost, the real t...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kaiserman MJ,Rogers B

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess how US Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) awardees plan to respond to an influenza pandemic with vaccination. METHODS:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Pandemic Influenza Readiness Assessment, an online survey sent to PHEP directors, to analyze, in part, the rea...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fitzgerald TJ,Moulia DL,Graitcer SB,Vagi SJ,Dopson SA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the impact of French routine programs urging the combined measles-mumps-rubella immunization of 15-month-old children. METHODS:We applied a cohort analysis to surveillance data collected by general practitioners to estimate the cumulative incidence rate per 1000 unvaccinated children and...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chauvin P,Valleron AJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of rubella in a male obstetrics-gynecology house staff member exposed 170 staff members and 11 prenatal patients to the clinical disease. Of 163 staff members tested within one week of exposure, 132 (80 per cent) were not susceptibles. Repeat titres three weeks later on 28 susceptibles remained negative. Of the...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McLaughlin MC,Gold LH

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated links between police brutality and poor health outcomes among Blacks and identified five intersecting pathways: (1) fatal injuries that increase population-specific mortality rates; (2) adverse physiological responses that increase morbidity; (3) racist public reactions that cause stress; (4) arrests, ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Alang S,McAlpine D,McCreedy E,Hardeman R

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the first four years of operation of the Extended MPH Degree Program of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the features that might explain its initial success. The format of the curriculum is radically different from the traditional two-year program of...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wainwright RB,Peterson ML,Farrier JM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate homicide rates of transgender US residents and relative risks (RRs) of homicide with respect to cisgender comparators intersected with age, gender, and race/ethnicity. METHODS:I estimated homicide rates for transgender residents and transfeminine, Black, Latin@, and young (aged 15-34 years) subp...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Dinno A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed whether New York City's gun-related homicide rates in the 1990s were associated with a range of social determinants of homicide rates. METHODS:We used cross-sectional time-series data for 74 New York City police precincts from 1990 through 1999, and we estimated Bayesian hierarchical models with...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cerdá M,Messner SF,Tracy M,Vlahov D,Goldmann E,Tardiff KJ,Galea S

更新日期：2010-06-01 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:The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP) materials affected the delivery of 8 clinical preventive services. METHODS:Program materials were provided to a family medicine practice serving a diverse, low-income population. Appropriate use of clinical preventive serv...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Melnikow J,Kohatsu ND,Chan BK

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer of 1987, a common source waterborne outbreak of leptospirosis occurred on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii. Eight leptospirosis cases were identified using the microscopic agglutination test. Methodologic weaknesses in this technique were responsible for the initial missed diagnosis on six ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Katz AR,Manea SJ,Sasaki DM

更新日期：1991-10-01 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:To evaluate the impact of the partial repeal of Michigan's universal motorcycle helmet law on helmet use, fatalities, and head injuries. METHODS:We compared helmet use rates and motorcycle crash fatality risk for the 12 months before and after the April 13, 2012, repeal with a statewide police-reported cras...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Carter PM,Buckley L,Flannagan CA,Cicchino JB,Hemmila M,Bowman PJ,Almani F,Bingham CR

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We explored whether excesses in influenza severity can be detected by combining respiratory syndromic hospital and mortality data with data on influenza-like illness (ILI) cases obtained from general practitioners. METHODS:To identify excesses in the severity of influenza infections in the population of the...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： van den Wijngaard CC,van Asten L,Meijer A,van Pelt W,Nagelkerke NJ,Donker GA,van der Sande MA,Koopmans MP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We modeled triple trajectories of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use from adolescence to adulthood as predictors of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). METHODS:We assessed urban African American and Puerto Rican participants (n = 816) in the Harlem Longitudinal De...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Brook JS,Lee JY,Rubenstone E,Brook DW,Finch SJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used a community-based research approach to test a culturally based breast cancer screening program among low-income Hmong women in central and southern California. METHODS:We designed a culturally informed educational program with measures at baseline and 1-year follow-up in 2 intervention cities and 1 ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kagawa-Singer M,Tanjasiri SP,Valdez A,Yu H,Foo MA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated national and state-level potential medical care cost savings achievable through modest reductions in the prevalence of several diseases associated with the same lifestyle-related risk factors. METHODS:Using Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component data (2003-2005), we estimated the ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ormond BA,Spillman BC,Waidmann TA,Caswell KJ,Tereshchenko B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To measure test-retest reliability, 38 Veterans Administration clinic patients completed a modification of the Sarason Life Experience Survey (LES) twice within several weeks. Summary scores were found to be more reliable than scores on individual questions. Patients attending the Mental Hygiene Clinic responded less ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bailey GA,Koepsell TD,Belcher DW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child maltreatment among children in the United States. METHODS:We used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child Files (2003-2014) and Census data to develop synthetic cohort life tables to estimate the cumulative prevalence of...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kim H,Wildeman C,Jonson-Reid M,Drake B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and HIV diagnosis rates in the United States and whether racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis rates persist after control for SEP. METHODS:We used cases of HIV infection among persons aged 13 years and older, diagnosed 2005 through 2009 in 3...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： An Q,Prejean J,McDavid Harrison K,Fang X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe has undertaken a large study to evaluate housing and health in 7 European cities. METHODS:Survey tools were used to obtain information about housing and living conditions, health perception, and health status from a representative sample of the popu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bonnefoy XR,Braubach M,Moissonnier B,Monolbaev K,Röbbel N

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00