Delayed prenatal care and the risk of low birth weight delivery.

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：:There is a global rise in the prevalence of diabetes and this has led to a rise in the consequences of diabetes such as diabetic retinopathy (DR). The current study aims to determine the prevalence, awareness and determinants of DR among diabetics who attended a screening centre in Enugu, south-eastern Nigeria. A desc...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kizor-Akaraiwe NN,Ezegwui IR,Oguego N,Uche NJ,N Asimadu I,Shiweobi J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (causative agent for COVID-19) requires implementing contact and respiratory precautions. Modifying human behavior is challenging and requires understanding knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding health threats. This study explored KAPs among people in Ecuador. A...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bates BR,Moncayo AL,Costales JA,Herrera-Cespedes CA,Grijalva MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated mortality and health services utilization in a prospective study of 630 older residents of a Southern California community. All participants were 65 years or older when initially evaluated in 1973-1975. In addition to being followed for vital status each year, participants were reinterviewed in 1984-1986 ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kaplan RM,Wingard DL,McPhillips JB,Williams-Jones D,Barrett-Connor E

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:We examine whether workplace climate-quality of staff relationships (QSR) and manageable clinic workload (MCW) are related to better patient care experiences and diabetes care in community health centers (CHCs) catering to Latino and Chinese patients. Patient experience surveys of adult patients with type 2 diabetes a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Vargas Bustamante A,Martinez A,Chen X,Rodriguez HP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite established country's tobacco control law, cigarette smoking by the young people and the magnitude of nicotine dependence among the students is alarming in Bangladesh. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking and factors influencing it among the secondary school students. A two-stage cluster...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rahman MM,Ahmad SA,Karim MJ,Chia HA

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Significant differences in adult obesity prevalence exist between rural and urban settings throughout the world. Here, we estimate and evaluate the prevalence of adult obesity in rural Independent Samoa, rural American Samoa, and urban American Samoa in 2009. Volunteers over the age of 40 years were weighed and measur...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Barnes SS,O'Carroll DC,Sumida L,Shafer LA,Yamada S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined disparities in lung cancer mortality rates among US men and women in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas from 1950 through 2007. Annual age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated for men and women in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, and differences in mortality rates were tested for s...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Singh GK,Siahpush M,Williams SD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safe sleep practices reduce an infant's risk for sudden infant death syndrome and sleep-related death. While rates of infants placed on their back to sleep are high, other safe sleep practices are less widely implemented. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using cosmetologists as health promoters for inf...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Ahlers-Schmidt CR,Redmond ML,Struemph G,Hunninghake J,Nimeskern J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus vaccination (HPV) remains low in the United States. The inpatient postpartum setting provides an innovative opportunity to vaccinate eligible patients. This study evaluated two different interventions to improve HPV vaccination rates in hospitalized postpartum patients: a nurse based protocol and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Park SK,Holschneider CH,Chen J,Saleeby E,Singhal R

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Belgium and The Netherlands have fairly similar smoking prevalence patterns, but distinct tobacco control policies. It is our aim to use lung cancer death rates, especially among the youngest age groups (30-39 years), as indicators of past smoking behavioral patterns to evaluate recent tobacco control efforts in both ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Van Hemelrijck MJ,Kabir Z,Connolly GN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an outcome-based approach to quality assurance in primary care and present data from an initial study made to explore its usefulness. A questionnaire, which asked patients to report on the status of their problem in terms of the amount of symptoms, activity limitation, and anxiety it caused, was mailed to ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Mushlin AI,Appel FA,Barr DM

更新日期：1978-07-01 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：: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：:A seventy-nine question survey concerning AIDS was administered to 142 students in a high school senior class in Manhasset, Long Island, an affluent New York City suburb with a low incidence of AIDS. The instrument elicited information about knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, behaviors, and risks. Overall knowledge lev...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Imperato AM

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:Free HBV (hepatitis B virus) screening was offered at 8 health fairs to Asian Americans in Southeast and West Michigan for two and a half years as a community service to study the prevalence of hepatitis B among Asian Americans in Michigan as a first step in reducing the incidence of hepatitis B. The screening include...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Lee J,Lok AS,Chen J

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Asian/Pacific Islanders (A/PIs) in the United States are disproportionately affected by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which can cause a lifelong liver infection that may result in cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer, or death. Although previous studies have measured knowledge of hepatitis B transmission and preventi...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nishimura A,Shiono P,Stier D,Shallow S,Sanchez M,Huang S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical services provided to vacationers and employees in Yellowstone National Park were reviewed for the years 1975 through 1977. Both ambulatory and inpatient data were obtained, including diagnoses, place of residence, medications prescribed, and methods of payment. The types of problems and modes of treatment did ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Woolley FR,Wright DD,Patrick K,Kronhaus A,Ford M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HPV-related cancers can be prevented through HPV vaccination, however uptake and completion of the vaccination in the state of Georgia remains suboptimal. The research team conducted two online focus groups with members of the Georgia Cancer Control Consortium HPV Work Group in efforts to better understand the role th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： King AR,Moon T,Agnew G,Bednarczyk RA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV prevalence and socio-demographic data were analyzed to assess the alignment of CDC-funded HIV testing activity in 2012 with its high-impact prevention approach. CDC-funded HIV-testing was conducted in counties with high HIV prevalence and in places potentially more affected by HIV as measured by urbanicity, percen...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hayek S,Heitgerd JL,Williams WO,Krueger AL,Dietz PM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of adolescent pregnancy is one which physicians, social workers, ministers, politicians, parents and other concerned citizens now recognize as being of paramount importance. The New York City Board of Education, in accepting its responsibility for helping young people to live healthy and fulfilling lives, ha...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Schecter S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is aimed at investigating the factors determining the timing of first prenatal care (PNC) visit and the number of PNC visits among a national representative sample of Nepali women. Data was drawn from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey on women age 15-49 years old who had delivery within three yea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Neupane S,Doku DT

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the approach of the Department of Community Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the education of local and foreign physicians and their participation in the development of community oriented health care systems. It also presents the first steps taken by this medical school to create ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bosch SJ,Silver A

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Due to its rapid economic development, China is facing a huge health, social, and economic burden resulting from injuries. The study's objective was to examine Safe Communities in China as a strategy for injury prevention and safety promotion programmes in the era of rapid economic growth. Literature searches in Engli...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Wang SM,Dalal K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00