Promoting social inclusion in schools: a group-randomized trial of effects on student health risk behavior and well-being.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study identified behavioral and psychosocial/interpersonal factors in young adolescence that are associated with handgun carrying in later adolescence. METHODS:A sample of 2200 high school students was surveyed at 9th grade and again at 12th grade. RESULTS:Multivariate logistic regression analyses ind...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Simon TR,Richardson JL,Dent CW,Chou CP,Flay BR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVES:We describe a method to facilitate routine monitoring of socioeconomic health disparities in the United States. METHODS:We analyzed geocoded public health surveillance data including events from birth to death (c. 1990) linked to 1990 census tract (CT) poverty data for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. RESUL...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Krieger N,Chen JT,Waterman PD,Rehkopf DH,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This analysis described Latino migrant farmworkers' work safety climate and its association with musculoskeletal discomfort, working while injured or ill, and depressive symptoms. METHODS:Data were from a cross-sectional survey of 300 farmworkers conducted in North Carolina in 2009. Generalized estimating e...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Arcury TA,O'Hara H,Grzywacz JG,Isom S,Chen H,Quandt SA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To examine emerging adults' experiences of food insecurity in relation to measures of diet quality, food literacy, home food availability, and health behaviors.Methods. We used EAT 2010-2018 (Eating and Activity over Time) study data on 1568 participants who completed surveys as adolescents in 2009 to 2010...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Larson N,Laska MN,Neumark-Sztainer D

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of April 1987, states were permitted to raise the speed limit on rural interstates to 65 mph without incurring federal sanctions; 38 states elected to do so in 1987. Fatality data for the months when the new limit was in effect in 1987 were compared with fatalities in the same months of 1982-86 on rural interstates...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Baum HM,Lund AK,Wells JK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Doctor of Public Health degree is designed to build leadership skills and an ability to contribute to the evidence base of practice. The competency-based, distance-format, doctoral-level program for midcareer professionals features an action learning appr...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lenihan P,Welter C,Brandt-Rauf P,Neuberger B,Pinsker E,Petros M,Risley K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary argues that 100 years after the deadly Spanish flu, the public health emergency community's responses to much more limited pandemics and outbreaks demonstrate a critical shortage of personnel and resources. Rather than relying on nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as quarantine, the United States mu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Greenberger M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean imm...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fruchter RG,Nayeri K,Remy JC,Wright C,Feldman JG,Boyce JG,Burnett WS

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "rediscovery" of poverty, as echoed in concepts of social inequality, has contributed to the goal of eliminating racial/ethnic and social class disparities in the United States. This commentary focuses on what we know about the pressing health care needs and issues relevant to Latino children and families and how ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zambrana RE,Logie LA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In northern Uganda, physical and structural violence (political repression, economic inequality, and gender-based discrimination) increase vulnerability to HIV infection. In settings of war, traditional HIV prevention that solely promotes risk avoidance and risk reduction and assumes the existence of personal choice i...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Westerhaus MJ,Finnegan AC,Zabulon Y,Mukherjee JS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the association between 2 dimensions of adults' self-rated health and residential stability in childhood. METHODS:Using data from the nationally representative survey Midlife in the United States, I assessed the impact of neighborhood and family stability on positive perceptions of globa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bures RM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated a low-cost strategy for schools to improve the convenience and appeal of drinking water. METHODS:We conducted a group-randomized, controlled trial in 10 Boston, Massachusetts, schools in April through June 2013 to test a cafeteria-based intervention. Signage promoting water and disposable cups ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kenney EL,Gortmaker SL,Carter JE,Howe MC,Reiner JF,Cradock AL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of social sciences, there has been a renewed interest in studying prejudice and discrimination as stressors and assessing their impact on various health outcomes. This raises a need for theoretically based and psychometrically sound measures of prejudice. As researchers approach this task, there are sever...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Meyer IH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This report describes trends in the rates of lower-extremity amputation and revascularization procedures and vascular disease risk factors. METHODS:We analyzed trends in National Hospital Discharge Survey data for 1979 through 1996 and in National Health Interview Study data for 1983 through 1994. RESULTS:...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Feinglass J,Brown JL,LoSasso A,Sohn MW,Manheim LM,Shah SJ,Pearce WH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study sought to estimate the risk of silicosis by cumulative exposure-years in a cohort of miners exposed to silica, as well as the lifetime risk of silicosis under the current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard (0.09 mg/m3). METHODS:In a cohort study of 3330 gold miners who ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Steenland K,Brown D

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We calculated the long-term risks of death from smoking for individuals of various ages and smoking status in terms of the excess mortality contributed by smoking, over and above the baseline mortality from the same diseases caused by factors other than smoking using standard life table procedures. Since mortality dat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Mattson ME,Pollack ES,Cullen JW

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined relations between early alcohol use and subsequent alcohol and sexual risk behaviors among urban adolescents. METHODS:A total of 1034 African American and Hispanic youths completed surveys assessing alcohol and sexual behaviors at 7th and 10th grade. After we controlled for early sexual initiati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Stueve A,O'Donnell LN

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the effect of patients' socioeconomic status on use of coronary angiography, bypass grafting, and angioplasty across health insurance categories. METHODS:Multiple logistic regression was used to compute the odds of receiving each procedure among 206 233 ischemic heart disease patients r...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Carlisle DM,Leake BD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To document the collective effort of diaper banks in the United States and to estimate the percentage of low-income children whose diaper need is met through these efforts.Methods. For each state, we compared the number of children younger than 4 years in families living at or below 200% of the federal pov...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Massengale KEC,Comer LH,Austin AE,Goldblum JS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined associations of different levels of same-ethnicity neighborhood concordance with health care access and utilization among all Asian American, Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese adults (aged 18-64 years) using the 2005, 2007, and 2009 California Health Interview Survey and the 2010 US Census. Although associ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chang E,Chan KS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia implemented an eight-month prospective surveillance system in 24 hospitals distributed among states with and without public funding for abortion. Out of 3,157 visits for abortion-related complications, only 10 women gave a history of non-physician or self-induced ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cates W Jr,Kimball AM,Gold J,Rubin GL,Smith JC,Rochat RW,Tyler CW Jr

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cape Town, South Africa experienced an upsurge in the level of political violence from May to July of 1986. To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in h...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yach D

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among all deaths to Connecticut residents (1990/91), 1260 were acceptable Spanish-surname matches (using father's surname for females), of which only 793 (62.9%) were identified as Hispanic origin on the death certificate. Certificates also identified 127 non-Spanish-surnamed Hispanics. With death rates for non-Hispan...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Polednak AP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An editorial in a previous issue of this journal falsely claims that the US government's efforts to reduce road fatalities are not based on science. It says that, as a result, the United States has fallen behind other countries in road death prevention. A large body of research and evaluation informed federal and stat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Robertson LS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cocaine use among youths as measured by several annual surveys was most popular from about 1979 to 1986, after which it declined. This study carefully examines the nature of the decline by focusing on microdata for youthful arrestees in Manhattan. METHODS:Multiple statistical analyses examine whether the de...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Golub A,Johnson BD

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Because of their youth, adolescent parents often lack the interpersonal skills necessary to manage the relationship challenges involved in parenting, leaving them and their children vulnerable to the health risks associated with relational stress and conflict. The primary goal of this study was to test the e...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Florsheim P,Burrow-Sánchez JJ,Minami T,McArthur L,Heavin S,Hudak C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined trends in tobacco use in a random sample of 2 of the 20 top-grossing US films each year from 1960 through 1990 (62 films). The overall rate of tobacco use did not change. Films continue to portray smokers as successful, attractive White males. Smoking groups became larger, smoking alone declined, h...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hazan AR,Lipton HL,Glantz SA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure cost-effectiveness of an intervention to increase retrofitting of rollover protective structures (ROPS) on tractors. METHODS:Tractor overturns are the leading cause of farm fatalities. ROPS prevent these deaths. This study updates a 2011 cost-effectiveness assessment of a New York State intervent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Myers M,Kelsey T,Tinc P,Sorensen J,Jenkins P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared pneumonia and influenza death rates among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people with rates among Whites and examined geographic differences in pneumonia and influenza death rates for AI/AN persons. METHODS:We adjusted National Vital Statistics Surveillance mortality data for racial miscla...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Groom AV,Hennessy TW,Singleton RJ,Butler JC,Holve S,Cheek JE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00