Strategies to increase smoke alarm use in high-risk households.

abstract：:Virtually all large employers engage in corporate philanthropy, but little is known about the extent to which it is directed toward improving community health. We conducted in-depth interviews with leaders of corporate philanthropy from 13 of the largest manufacturing companies in the US to understand how giving decis...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： McHugh M,Farley D,Maechling CR,Dunlop DD,French DD,Holl JL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from Wave 1 of the National Survey of Personal Health Practices and Consequences were used to examine the association between perceived control over future health and 13 health behavior indices. Analyses were conducted within three strata of health status, defined by a cross-tabulation of subjective and functiona...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rakowski W

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cervical cancer rates in the United States have declined sharply in recent decades, certain groups of women remain at elevated risk, including middle-aged and older women in central Appalachia. Cross-sectional baseline data from a community-based randomized controlled trial were examined to identify barriers ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Studts CR,Tarasenko YN,Schoenberg NE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate knowledge about human Papillomavirus (HPV) and its link to cervical cancer is essential for women to understand and make use of cervical cancer prevention and detection opportunities. This study was the first to survey awareness and knowledge of HPV in a population of Canadian Inuit. The objectives of this st...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Cerigo H,Macdonald ME,Franco EL,Brassard P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000, the government of Vietnam conducted the first assessment of its national peer education program for HIV prevention. Twenty (32%) of Vietnam's 61 provinces and urban areas had functioning peer education programs, and program coordinators of all 20 were interviewed regarding their programs. In addition, on-site...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Khoat DV,West GR,Valdiserri RO,Phan NT

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses play a critical role in delivering care to elderly people at primary health care level but there is no synthesis of research knowledge to guide community nursing practice in Japan. This review aims to identify nurse-led interventions that have been found to improve elder health at village level; the barriers an...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nagaya Y,Dawson A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved pneumococcal vaccine (PPV) immunization for seniors is a national goal of the Medicare program. This study examined whether adding a simple telephone follow-up to an existing mailed physician performance feedback under the Medicare program would increase the impact on billed pneumococcal immunizations. Medica...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Quinley JC,Shih A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of national programs in the past decade suggests that there is a developing consensus regarding the need for preventive services, but the proportion of them that physicians provide is decreasing. As teachers of preventive medicine, we should have a particular concern with the physician's performance in providin...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rabin DL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS:With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens just started to get back...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： He S,Chen S,Kong L,Liu W

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the relationship between sun protection policies and practices at child care centers in Massachusetts. We hypothesized that centers with sun protection policies were more likely to have regular sun protection practices in place compared to centers without these policies. We conducted a telephone survey wit...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kenfield SA,Geller AC,Richter EM,Shuman S,O'Riordan D,Koh HK,Colditz GA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threatened use of the smallpox virus in bioterrorist attacks recently prompted national concerns in the United States. Smallpox, the "speckled monster," was known in antiquity. In 1856, New York City opened its first hospital devoted to caring for victims of smallpox. Essentially, the hospital isolated and quarantined...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Spiegel AD,Kavaler F,Kucinski KM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine geographic and race/ethnic disparities in access to end of life care among elderly patients with lung cancer. The study sample consisted of 91,039 Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancer who died in 2008. The key outcome measures included the number of emergency room visits, ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nayar P,Qiu F,Watanabe-Galloway S,Boilesen E,Wang H,Lander L,Islam M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family caregiver provides unpaid assistance to a family member/friend with a chronic disease, illness or disability. The caregiving process can affect a caregiver's quality of life by reducing time for themselves, for other family members and for work. The 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey estimates th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Cordova FM,B Harris R,Teufel-Shone NI,L Nisson P,Joshweseoma L,R Brown S,Sanderson PR,Ami D,Saboda K,M Mastergeorge A,B Gerald L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify significant predictors of the adoption of more than one tick-exposure and tick-borne disease risk reduction behavior among a cross-section of Indiana residents. Study participants were recruited through quota sampling, before completing an online self-administered questionnaire in Qualtrics. The most adopt...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Omodior O,Luetke M,Kianersi S,Colón A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high health and mental health care needs, resettled refugees often face cultural and linguistic challenges that hinder the access to appropriate and timely interventions and services. Additionally, such concepts as preventive health or mental health treatment are foreign to this population, which creates a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Im H,Rosenberg R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients have a rudimentary knowledge of their body's anatomy and functioning. In a clinical setting, deficits in patient understanding can lead to miscommunication affecting patient care and satisfaction. Hence, this study aims to estimate a baseline of patient knowledge regarding pelvic anatomy and to assess th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Reid JA,Templeman CL,Groneberg DA,Brueggmann D,Jaque JM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B is the leading cause of liver cancer and the largest health disparity between Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) and the general US population. The Hep B Free model was launched to eliminate hepatitis B infection by increasing hepatitis B awareness, testing, vaccination, and treatment among APIs by bui...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bailey MB,Shiau R,Zola J,Fernyak SE,Fang T,So SK,Chang ET

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Although the cooperation between modern and traditional medicine (TM) is increasingly promoted in health care system of nationwide, there remains many barriers. In this study, we examined the barriers and possible ways of promoting cooperation between traditional healers and modern health system. Ethnographic method i...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Suwankhong D,Liamputtong P,Runbold B

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Refugees and new immigrants arriving in the United States (U.S.) often encounter a multitude of stressors adjusting to a new country and potentially coping with past traumas. Community gardens have been celebrated for their role in improving physical and emotional health, and in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, have been...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hartwig KA,Mason M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general introduction of this article is as follows: Reliable and timely health information is an essential foundation of public health action and health systems strengthening, both nationally and internationally (Aqil et al. in Health Policy Plan 24(3): 217-228, 2009; Bradshaw et al. in initial burden of disease es...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Otieno CF,Kaseje D,Ochieng' BM,Githae MN

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the results from the field test of a multimedia health education intervention, designed to provide breast cancer education for low income Latinas. The purpose of the field test was to ascertain whether the intervention produced significant changes in breast cancer knowledge and attitude, and scree...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Valdez A,Banerjee K,Ackerson L,Fernandez M

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Rwanda still faces major hurdles in its effort to achieve universal access to health care for all. Even though there is an improvement in overall population health status and community-based funding of insurance coverage, a large percentage of women still deliver their babies at home assisted by unskilled birth attend...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hong R,Ayad M,Ngabo F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) has been recognized as the crux of HIV surveillance, prevention and treatment programs. Since 2000, Ghana government has launched a number of HIV prevention and treatment programs intended to increase VCT services. Despite these efforts, uptake of testing is still low, though man...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Koku EF

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Hepatitis C (HCV) care cascades have been described in diverse clinical settings, patient populations and countries, highlighting the steps in HCV care where improvements can be made and resources allocated. However, more research is needed to examine barriers to HCV treatment in rural, underserved populations and in ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hachey DM,Holmes JT,Aubuchon-Endsley NL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A community-university partnership used community-based participatory research (CBPR) to design, implement, and evaluate a multi-cultural public health campaign to eliminate flammable products and reduce use of products high in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in hardwood floor finishing in Massachusetts. Leading par...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Azaroff LS,Nguyen HM,Do T,Gore R,Goldstein-Gelb M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual violence in conflict situations is gaining worldwide recognition as a human rights issue. There is growing awareness and concern about the risks associated with sexual violence against women. This study was conducted in order to explore the perceptions and experiences of the risk of sexual violence in the Democ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Zihindula G,Maharaj P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00