Encouraging use of coupons to stimulate condom purchase.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess whether breastfeeding-related hospital practices reported by mothers were associated with achievement of their intentions to exclusively breastfeed. METHODS:We used data from Listening to Mothers II, a nationally representative survey of 1573 mothers who had given birth in a hospital to ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Declercq E,Labbok MH,Sakala C,O'Hara M

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Systematic reviews are generating valuable scientific knowledge about the impact of public health laws, but this knowledge is not readily accessible to policy makers. We identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Moulton AD,Mercer SL,Popovic T,Briss PA,Goodman RA,Thombley ML,Hahn RA,Fox DM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives. We explored gender role strain (GRS) arising from conflict between homosexuality and cultural conceptions of masculinity among young Black men who have sex with men (MSM). Methods. We conducted a categorical analysis (a qualitative, 3-stage, iterative analysis) of data from studies conducted in 2001 to 200...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Fields EL,Bogart LM,Smith KC,Malebranche DJ,Ellen J,Schuster MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies. METHODS:We calculated correlations between rates of incarceration in state prisons and county jails and rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies for each of the 1...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thomas JC,Torrone E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among homeless veterans and assessed the TBI-4, a screening tool created to identify TBI history. Between May 2010 and October 2011, 800 US veterans from two hospitals, one eastern (n = 122) and one western (n = 678) completed some or all measures. Findings ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Russell LM,Devore MD,Barnes SM,Forster JE,Hostetter TA,Montgomery AE,Casey R,Kane V,Brenner LA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to estimate the effects of recreational physical activity and back exercises on low back pain, related disability, and psychological distress among patients randomized to chiropractic or medical care in a managed care setting. METHODS:Low back pain patients (n=681) were randomized and followed for...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hurwitz EL,Morgenstern H,Chiao C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the costs, risks, and benefits of possible future major policy decisions on vaccination, surveillance, response plans, and containment following global eradication of wild polioviruses. METHODS:We developed a decision analytic model to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net b...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thompson KM,Tebbens RJ,Pallansch MA,Kew OM,Sutter RW,Aylward RB,Watkins M,Gary HE Jr,Alexander J,Jafari H,Cochi SL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the prevalence and factors associated with physical and nonphysical violence in a sample of general practitioners (GPs). METHODS:We used a cross-sectional design to collect data from December 2014 to March 2015 with a structured self-administered questionnaire from 1015 GPs in Hubei Province, Cent...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Gan Y,Li L,Jiang H,Lu K,Yan S,Cao S,Fu W,Hu S,Qiao Y,Yang T,Wang C,Chen Y,Yang Y,Li H,Fang P,Yin X,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We systematically reviewed the effects of alcohol taxes and prices on alcohol-related morbidity and mortality to assess their public health impact. METHODS:We searched 12 databases, along with articles' reference lists, for studies providing estimates of the relationship between alcohol taxes and prices and...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Wagenaar AC,Tobler AL,Komro KA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the relationships between wealth and income and selected racial and ethnic differences in health. METHODS:Cross-sectional data on a national sample of 9744 men and women aged 51 through 61 from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey were analyzed to examine the association between socioec...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kington RS,Smith JP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is an example of a medical technology that has been widely accepted since its introduction in the mid-1960s. However, review of the literature does not provide convincing evidence of EFM efficacy, and four recent, controlled, clinical trails show little if any benefit in terms of prev...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Banta HD,Thacker SB

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the impact of a safety training regulation, implemented by the US Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in 1999, on injury rates at stone, sand, and gravel mining operations. METHODS:We applied a time-series design and analyses with quarterly counts of nonfatal inju...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Monforton C,Windsor R

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessments of the consequences of deinstitutionalization tend to focus primarily on observable changes in psychiatric services. Equally critical, and less often noted, are changes in the target population of deinstitutionalization that have accrued as the result of new service initiatives and changing loci of care. Y...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bachrach LL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July 1987 to June 1988, 1030 pregnant women with hepatitis B were reported to a New York City surveillance program. Among 832 infants under follow-up, the coverage rates for combined hepatitis B immune globulin and vaccine doses 1, 2, and 3 were 84%, 77%, and 59%, respectively. Infants covered by Medicaid and uni...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Henning KJ,Pollack DM,Friedman SM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined whether healthy lifestyles are associated with absence of depressed mood. METHODS:A sample of 1169 adult participants in the Maastricht Aging Study provided baseline and 6-year follow-up data on smoking, alcohol use, physical exercise, body mass index, and mood. We examined associations between ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： van Gool CH,Kempen GI,Bosma H,van Boxtel MP,Jolles J,van Eijk JT

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of giardiasis occurred following a family party for 25 persons. Nine who had eaten fruit salad became ill, compared with one who had not eaten the salad (Relative Risk = 7.4, 95% CI = 1.4, 169.3). The fruit salad preparer had a diapered child and a pet rabbit at home who were both positive for Giardia lamb...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Porter JD,Gaffney C,Heymann D,Parkin W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV/AIDS epidemic has exacted a devastating toll upon Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States, and there is a tremendous need to escalate HIV-prevention efforts for this population. The social context in which Black MSM experience the impact of racism and heterosexism strongly affects their risk...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Peterson JL,Jones KT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoting population mental health and meeting the burdens of mental illness is a priority public health challenge of the 21st century. But too little attention has been placed on how to design and sustain the scope of strategies and commitments that credibly live up to the full breadth of that challenge. ThriveNYC is...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Belkin G,McCray C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the impact of a change in New York tax law on the numbers of untaxed cigarettes bootlegged from Native American reservations and resold in the South Bronx. METHODS:Discarded cigarette packs were systematically collected in 30 randomized South Bronx census tracks before and after the amended tax ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kurti M,von Lampe K,Johnson J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to identify behaviors associated with change in body mass index or with weight gain at the waist. METHODS:A cohort of 79236 White, non-Hispanic, healthy adults was questioned in 1982 and 1992 about diet and 10 physical activities. Estimates were made of the mean effects of stab...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kahn HS,Tatham LM,Rodriguez C,Calle EE,Thun MJ,Heath CW Jr

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We determined the sustainability of effects of a school-based intervention to improve health behaviors and cardiovascular risk factors among middle school children. METHODS:We administered a questionnaire and health screenings to 5 schools in Ann Arbor and 2 schools in Ypsilanti, Michigan. We assessed demog...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Corriveau N,Eagle T,Jiang Q,Rogers R,Gurm R,Aaronson S,Mitchell L,DuRussel-Weston J,Kline-Rogers E,Eagle KA,Jackson EA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workplace violence is becoming increasingly recognized as a serious problem in health care settings. All 628 workers' compensation assaults claimed by minority Los Angeles County health care workers from 1986 through 1990 were abstracted. Population-at-risk data from county personnel computer tapes provided denominato...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Sullivan C,Yuan C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed the effect of public health leadership training on the capacity of public health leaders to perform competencies derived from the list of "Ten Essential Public Health Services" presented in 1994 by the steering committee of the Public Health Functions Project. METHODS:Graduating scholars of the ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Saleh SS,Williams D,Balougan M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine whether US physicians' practice patterns in treating tobacco use at ambulatory visits improved over the past decade with the appearance of national clinical practice guidelines, new smoking cessation medications, and public reporting of physician performance in counseling smokers. MET...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Thorndike AN,Regan S,Rigotti NA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess the capacity of state public health agencies to address noncommunicable disease clusters (NCCs) and to develop recommendations to enhance agencies' NCC response capacity. METHODS:We conducted an inventory of state public health agency Web sites and administered a Web-based survey of stat...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Juzych NS,Resnick B,Streeter R,Herbstman J,Zablotsky J,Fox M,Burke TA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monthly Health Review was developed to monitor symptoms, illnesses and injuries among Air Traffic Controllers. Return rate of the mailed check-list exceeded 90 per cent. Diagnoses were generated from symptom clusters by computer algorithms. Telephone interview by physicians, laboratory analyses for serum pepsinogen ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Jenkins CD,Kreger BE,Rose RM,Hurst M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interview data from a three-wave panel study of the impact of the residential environment upon the psychological well-being of 337 minority women were used to examine the effects of household infestation upon self-reported depression, phobic anxiety, somatization, hostility, and anomia. The findings of cross-sectional...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Zahner GE,Kasl SV,White M,Will JC

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To elucidate why the inverse association between education level and mortality risk (the gradient) has increased markedly among White women since the mid-1980s, we identified causes of death for which the gradient increased. METHODS:We used data from the 1986 to 2006 National Health Interview Survey Linked ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Montez JK,Zajacova A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined correlates of condomless anal intercourse with nonmain sexual partners among African American men who have sex with men (MSM). METHODS:We recruited social networks composed of 445 Black MSM from 2012 to 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Miami Beach, Florida. Participants reporte...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kelly JA,St Lawrence JS,Tarima SS,DiFranceisco WJ,Amirkhanian YA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00