Pregnancy-related mortality in New Jersey, 1975 to 1989.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tested the efficacy of a combined pharmacologic and behavioral smoking cessation intervention among women in a state prison in the southern United States. METHODS:The study design was a randomized controlled trial with a 6-month waitlist control group. The intervention was a 10-week group intervention co...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Cropsey K,Eldridge G,Weaver M,Villalobos G,Stitzer M,Best A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of chiropractic use on overall health care utilization patterns, the volume and pattern of ambulatory physician visits by elderly persons having contact with chiropractors are compared with those having contact with physicians only. This analysis is based on data representative of the Canadian Pro...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shapiro E

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health officials often wish to sponsor nutrition and other health promotion programs but are hampered by lack of funding. One source of funding is suggested by the fact that 18 states and 1 major city levy special taxes on soft drinks, candy, chewing gum, or snack foods. The tax rates may be too small to affect sales,...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jacobson MF,Brownell KD

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking histories, reported depth of inhalation, number of pipe and cigars (PC) smoked, serum thiocyanate (SCN) and expired air carbon monoxide (CO) levels were examined in PC male smokers enrolled in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). Serum SCN levels for all PC smokers were higher than fo...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ockene JK,Pechacek TF,Vogt T,Svendsen K

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed the quality of hospital care for women who underwent a hysterectomy to compare Medicaid-covered women with privately insured women and minority women with White women. METHODS:We evaluated medical decisions, inpatient care, quality of inpatient care, and outcomes. RESULTS:Quality of hospital car...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hakim RB,Benedict MB,Merrick NJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual and reproductive health remains the contentious concept it was at the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt. In light of the recent 15-year review of ICPD, we suggest several areas where advocates, practitioners, and researchers can inform future...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Roseman MJ,Reichenbach L

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Understanding differential disease susceptibility requires new tools to quantify the cumulative effects of environmental stress. Evidence suggests that social, physical, and chemical stressors can influence disease through the accumulation of epigenetic modifications. Geographically stable epigenetic alterations could...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Olden K,Lin YS,Gruber D,Sonawane B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the effect of the ACA expansion of dependents' coverage on health care expenditures and utilization for young adults by race/ethnicity. METHODS:We used difference-in-difference models to estimate the impact of the ACA expansion on health care expenditures, out-of-pocket payments (OOP) as a shar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Chen J,Bustamante AV,Tom SE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study tested the hypothesis that tobacco industry campaign contributions influence state legislators' behavior. METHODS:Multivariate simultaneous equations regression was used to analyze data on tobacco industry campaign contributions to state legislators and legislators' tobacco control policy scores ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Monardi F,Glantz SA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large portion of current epidemiologic research is based on methodologic individualism: the notion that the distribution of health and disease in populations can be explained exclusively in terms of the characteristics of individuals. The present paper discusses the need to include group- or macro-level variables in...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Diez-Roux AV

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effect of caffeine consumption on fertility was examined prospectively in 210 women. METHODS:Women reported on caffeinated beverage consumption and pregnancy status monthly. Odds ratios for becoming pregnant were calculated for both high and moderate vs low consumption. RESULTS:No significant associati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Caan B,Quesenberry CP Jr,Coates AO

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To detect decreases in anogenital warts (AGW) among sex and age groups likely to be affected by human papillomavirus vaccination. METHODS:We estimated annual AGW prevalence during 2006 to 2014 using health care claims among US private health insurance enrollees aged 15 to 39 years. We derived AGW diagnoses ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Flagg EW,Torrone EA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study assessed the exposure of adolescent girls to cigar images in women's magazines from 1992 to 1998. METHODS:Data were obtained from the 5 women's magazines with the highest readership of adolescent girls. RESULTS:We found a significant upward trend in cigar images portrayed in women's magazines an...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Feit MN

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：:The authors review the available empirical evidence from population-based studies of the association between perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination and health. This research indicates that discrimination is associated with multiple indicators of poorer physical and, especially, mental health status. However, the ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Williams DR,Neighbors HW,Jackson JS

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined an outbreak of hepatitis A in eastern Sydney during 1991-1992. METHODS:Data were based on cases of hepatitis A in eastern Sydney residents reported from January 1991 to October 1992. RESULTS:Five hundred seventy cases of hepatitis A were reported. Of these, 515 (90%) occurred in male pa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Stokes ML,Ferson MJ,Young LC

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of international health has typically been assessed from the standpoint of central institutions (international health organizations, foundations, and development agencies) or of one-way diffusion and influence from developed to developing countries. To deepen understanding of how the international health...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Birn AE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the association between aerobic fitness and serum cholesterol and the effects of controlling for gender, body composition, abdominal fat, and dietary saturated fat in 262 children. The 1-mile run was used to estimate fitness. Skinfolds were used in assessing body fat. Fit children had lower total c...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hager RL,Tucker LA,Seljaas GT

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the effects of several survey features on response rates in a general population health survey. METHODS:In 2012 and 2013, 8000 households in British Columbia, Canada, were randomly allocated to 1 of 7 survey variants, each containing a different combination of survey features. Features compared inc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Guo Y,Kopec JA,Cibere J,Li LC,Goldsmith CH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared admission rates, outcomes, and performance of the CURB-65 mortality prediction score of homeless patients and nonhomeless patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). METHODS:We compared homeless (n = 172) and nonhomeless (n = 1897) patients presenting to a Salt Lake City, Utah, emergency d...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jones B,Gundlapalli AV,Jones JP,Brown SM,Dean NC

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. To examine relationships among actionable drivers and facilitators of stigma and nurses' intentions to provide the standard of maternal care recommended by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) for incarcerated women.Methods. We conducted a Web-based survey of perinatal...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Goshin LS,Sissoko DRG,Stringer KL,Sufrin C,Byrnes L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the association between neighborhood convenience stores and diet outcomes for 20 years of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study. METHODS:We used dietary data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study years 1985-1986, 1992-1993, and 2005-2006 (n = 3299; ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rummo PE,Meyer KA,Boone-Heinonen J,Jacobs DR Jr,Kiefe CI,Lewis CE,Steffen LM,Gordon-Larsen P

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the roles of Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) and orthopedic surgeons in the provision of foot surgery by analyzing the 1982 computerized claims of over 1.1 million federal employees, retirees, and family members. We found that DPMs provided over 60 per cent of all elective insured foot surgery. Withou...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Weiner JP,Steinwachs DM,Frank RG,Schwartz KJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health car...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Pont J,Stöver H,Wolff H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the mechanisms by which living in a disadvantaged minority community influences smoking and illegal cigarette sale and purchasing behaviors after a large cigarette tax increase. METHODS:Data were collected from 14 focus groups (n=104) that were conducted during the spring of 2003 among Blacks ag...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Shelley D,Cantrell MJ,Moon-Howard J,Ramjohn DQ,VanDevanter N

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated ethnic disparities in obtaining medical care among the 4 major ethnic groups (Blacks, Whites, Coloreds [i.e., those of mixed race], and Asians) in post-apartheid South Africa. METHODS:Data for the study came from the 2002 Afrobarometer: Round II Survey of South Africa. Bivariate and multivar...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kon ZR,Lackan N

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:An examination of age specific rates of psychiatric admissions within Brooklyn, New York, indicated that population density may function as an intervening variable in the production of mental illness. Measures of household and family contact were found to be significantly correlated to four rates of hospital utilizati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schweitzer L,Su WH

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00