Participation and program outcomes in a church-based cancer prevention program for Hispanic women.

abstract：:Given the Canadian Aboriginal People's colonial legacy of multiple deprivations, the discord between an Aboriginal worldview and the dominant neo-liberal culture in Canada, and the recognized disadvantage vulnerability of single mothers, this quantitative study was aimed at increasing the understanding of exclusion, s...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Johner R,Maslany G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV counselling and testing was provided to 4267 individuals between September 1987 and June 1992 at a multi-site program, including community clinics, drug treatment programs, and a men's prison in central Massachusetts. Half of those tested reported the risk behaviors targeted by the programs: injection drug use (38...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： McCusker J,Willis G,McDonald M,Sereti SM,Lewis BF,Sullivan JL

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of childhood obesity is a national priority. Parents influence young children's healthy lifestyles, so it is paradoxical that obesity interventions focus primarily on children. Evidence and theory suggest that including parents in interventions offers promise for effective childhood obesity prevention. This...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Jurkowski JM,Green Mills LL,Lawson HA,Bovenzi MC,Quartimon R,Davison KK

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine how often mobile food cart vendors in New York City (NYC) changed gloves after exchanging money, which is required by the current NYC health code as one of various measures to prevent foodborne illness. A total of 100 carts (10 carts in 10 zones) throughout Manhattan were observe...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Basch CH,Guerra LA,MacDonald Z,Marte M,Basch CE

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addressing the health needs of all Americans is central to the public health agenda in the US. Although some progress has been made in documenting health disparities among South Asians living in the US, more attention is needed to fully understand how communities are addressing the health needs of this community. Comm...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Chaudhary N,Vyas A,Parrish EB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article unfortunately contains mistakes. 1. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Tobacco Use" subheading, the percentage should read "59.3%" rather than "55.6%". 2. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Secondhand Smoke Exposure" subheading, the percentage "28.2%" should rea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Petersen AB,Stewart HC,Walters J,Vijayaraghavan M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to enforce underage drinking laws are aimed at reducing youth access to alcohol from commercial and social sources and deterring its possession and use. However, little is known about the processes through which enforcement strategies may affect underage drinking. The purpose of the current study is to pres...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lipperman-Kreda S,Grube JW,Paschall MJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if the timing of prenatal care is associated with low birth weight delivery after adjusting for sociodemographic and behavioral risk factors, we performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of singleton births to white (2,945,595) or African-American (552,068) women in the United States in 1996. When a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hueston WJ,Gilbert GE,Davis L,Sturgill V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latinas have the highest incidence of cervical cancer. Latino parents' perceptions of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and willingness to have their sons and daughters vaccinated in Utah is largely unknown. Latino parents/guardians of children ages 11-17 years were recruited from two community organizations (N = 52) to ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Warner EL,Lai D,Carbajal-Salisbury S,Garza L,Bodson J,Mooney K,Kepka D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the level of knowledge concerning HIV transmission and the attitudes towards AIDS among a rural semi-nomadic community in Somaliland. Cross-sectional survey. Questionnaire-based interviews were conducted via a household survey in Sharmake, a village in the Hargeisa district, Somaliland. 14...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Abdi IA,Ereg D,Ali M,Rahlenbeck SI

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmet social needs contribute significantly to health outcomes, yet they are not routinely assessed in health care settings. Identifying modifiable social needs and feasible tools to assess them may improve health and decrease costs. We conducted 18 focus groups with 115 participants, stratified by age (18-35, 36-64, ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Careyva BA,Hamadani R,Friel T,Coyne CA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To know and understand the intention of young adults to use, during the Christmas and New Year's period, the community drive-home service after drinking alcohol, that is, to phone for oneself when they are the driver or when they are the passenger to suggest to a friend who is the driver to phone for the service. This...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lavoie M,Godin G,Valois P

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It appears that the specialty of preventive medicine is declining as a viable specialty, with inadequate numbers of practitioners and with a declining number of physicians entering residency training programs. However, additional data are needed to make rough estimates of the level of need in the future. Even without ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Scutchfield FD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the levels of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs and AIDS among secondary school students in the Asir Region of Southwestern Saudi Arabia, and to assess the impact of a one-session AIDS education lecture given in some schools in the region during World AIDS Day, December 1992. An Arab...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Abolfotouh MA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To measure the extent of disagreement on roles between nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians working together and to look for characteristics of joint practices that are associated with disagreement, patient vignettes were sent to 15 NP/M.D. dyads, and both M.D.s and NPs were asked how appropriate it would be for t...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Davidson RA,Fletcher RH,Earp JA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of socioeconomic status, knowledge and Health Belief Model variables on ever use of hormone therapy and other osteoporosis medications among older African-American women. One-hundred and two African-American women, 60 years old or older, randomly selected from Registers of Voters and a ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Unson CG,Fortinsky R,Prestwood K,Reisine S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in youth athletes. Survival from out- of-hospital SCA depends on prompt initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). This study evaluated parental knowledge, experience, and attitudes related to cardiov...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Wagener MA,Diamond AB,Karpinos AR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to hope theory, hope is defined as goal-directed thinking in which people perceive that they can find routes to desired goals and the motivation to use those routes. The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between hope and body mass index and hope and self-rated health among women completing a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kelsey KS,DeVellis BM,Gizlice Z,Ries A,Barnes K,Campbell MK

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodian immigrants are over 25 times more likely to have evidence of chronic hepatitis B infection than the general US population. Carriers of HBV are over 100 times more likely to develop liver cancer than non-carriers. Liver cancer incidence is the second leading cancer for Cambodian men and the sixth for Cambodia...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Burke NJ,Do HH,Talbot J,Sos C,Svy D,Taylor VM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Uganda malaria causes more morbidity and mortality than any other disease and children below 5 years contribute the biggest percentage of malaria related mortality. Insecticide treated nets (ITNs) are currently one of the most cost effective option for reducing malaria-related morbidity and mortality, however the f...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nankinga Z,Muliira JK,Kalyango J,Nankabirwa J,Kiwuwa S,Njama-Meya D,Karamagi C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Originating in 1850, the New York Medical College was one of the earliest medical schools to adopt the educational reforms advocated by the American Medical Association. This college lengthened the school term, employed more professors than usual and established a separate Board of Censors to approve students for thei...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Spiegel AD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper uses the results from a community food security assessment survey of 684 residents and three focus groups in Pueblo County, Colorado to examine the question: what community and individual factors contribute to or alleviate food insecurity, and are these factors consistent throughout a sub-county population....

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Jablonski BB,McFadden DT,Colpaart A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smokefree policies (SFPs) have diffused throughout the US and worldwide. However, the development of SFPs in the difficult policy environment of tobacco-producing states and economies worldwide has not been well-explored. In 2007, Tennessee, the third largest tobacco producer in the US, enacted the Non-Smoker Protecti...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Mamudu HM,Dadkar S,Veeranki SP,He Y,Barnes R,Glantz SA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the courts have indicated an increased vulnerability of the tobacco industry to civil lawsuits brought because of tobacco-related illness. Much of the recent public discussion has dealt with how to attack the public health problem of childhood smoking, and the judicial system may also be of help...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nusbaum NJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spring Valley community of Washington, District of Columbia, was built on the site of a World War I chemical weapons lab where testing activities had distributed arsenic to surface soil and waste disposal had resulted in localized subsurface contamination. In previous work, findings were suggestive of potential si...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Fox MA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma 1-2-3 is a newly-developed low-literacy multimedia education tool designed to promote asthma self-care concepts among African American adults. An expert panel (n = 10) informed content development for the tool. The video script and storyboard imagery were shown to 30 African Americans recruited from the America...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sobel RM,Paasche-Orlow MK,Waite KR,Rittner SS,Wilson EA,Wolf MS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of the genital tract is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and a subset of genital tract HPVs are etiologically associated with cervical cancer. The prevalence of HPV infection is highest among adolescents and young adults. This study was undertaken to exp...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Baer H,Allen S,Braun L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis represents the major public health concern worldwide. The purpose of this study was to assess osteoporosis beliefs and actual performance of osteoporosis preventive behaviors in non-academic community Chinese population and to explore whether the differences exist in community females and males. A cross s...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Zhang YP,Xia RY,Zhang B,Zhang F,Zhao XS,Zhang LL,Li H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the 1980's, HIV antiretroviral therapy was non-existent or insufficient, and patients admitted to hospitals were frequently terminal. In 1988 we evaluated the HIV related hospitalizations at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and found that only 1.3 % of the patients had an advanced directiv...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： de Caprariis PJ,Carballo-Diéguez A,Thompson S,Lyon C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review aims to determine the prevalence of smoking among Saudi students and to study and to identify, synthesize and summarize the predictors that initiate smoking among students in different ages in Saudi Arabia. Different databases were searched (Web of Science, Google Scholar, Pub Med and Science Direct) with ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Almutairi KM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00