Sexual mixing patterns in the spread of gonococcal and chlamydial infections.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to describe approaches to surveillance of fatal child maltreatment and to identify options for improving case ascertainment. METHODS:Three states--California, Michigan, and Rhode Island--used multiple data sources for surveillance. Potential cases were identified, operational definitions were appl...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Schnitzer PG,Covington TM,Wirtz SJ,Verhoek-Oftedahl W,Palusci VJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We studied state-adopted bicycle guidelines to determine whether cycle tracks (physically separated, bicycle-exclusive paths adjacent to sidewalks) were recommended, whether they were built, and their crash rate. METHODS:We analyzed and compared US bicycle facility guidelines published between 1972 and 1999...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Lusk AC,Morency P,Miranda-Moreno LF,Willett WC,Dennerlein JT

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has proposed revising the AIDS surveillance definition to include any HIV-seropositive person with a CD4 cell count of less than 200 cells per microliter. Based on a study of persons receiving treatment for HIV infection, this new definition would lead to an estimated 50% increase...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Des Jarlais DC,Wenston J,Friedman SR,Sotheran JL,Maslansky R,Marmor M,Yancovitz S,Beatrice S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional methods for classifying patients with respect to utilization of health care resources are based almost exclusively on diagnostic criteria. We review a new severity of illness index which is generic to most medical and surgical conditions in a hospital, and which has been found to produce subgroups of pati...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Horn SD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is widely believed that risk factors identified in previous epidemiologic studies accurately predict adolescent drug use. Comparative studies are needed to determine how risk factors vary in prevalence, distribution, sensitivity, and pattern across the major US ethnic/racial groups. METHODS:Baseline ques...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Vega WA,Zimmerman RS,Warheit GJ,Apospori E,Gil AG

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the prevalence and causes of functional paralysis in the United States. METHODS:We used the 2013 US Paralysis Prevalence & Health Disparities Survey to estimate the prevalence of paralysis, its causes, associated sociodemographic characteristics, and health effects among this population. RESULT...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Armour BS,Courtney-Long EA,Fox MH,Fredine H,Cahill A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most health research with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people has focused on tribal communities on reservation lands. Few studies have been conducted with AI/AN people living in urban settings despite their documented health disparities compared with other urban populations. There are unique consideration...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Yuan NP,Bartgis J,Demers D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent recommendations for Americans aged 2 and older call for a reduction in the average saturated fat intake to less than 10% of calories. METHODS:Using 24-hour dietary recalls collected from mothers of 4- to 7-year-old urban Latino children, we identified foods and dietary behavior patterns that distingu...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Basch CE,Shea S,Zybert P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used data from a nationally representative sample to examine the associations among 3 dimensions of sexual orientation (identity, attraction, and behavior), lifetime and past-year mood and anxiety disorders, and sex. METHODS:We analyzed data from wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Bostwick WB,Boyd CJ,Hughes TL,McCabe SE

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We compared faculty promotion rates by race/ethnicity across US academic medical centers. METHODS:We used the Association of American Medical College's 1983 through 2000 faculty roster data to estimate median institution-specific promotion rates for assistant professor to associate professor and for associa...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nunez-Smith M,Ciarleglio MM,Sandoval-Schaefer T,Elumn J,Castillo-Page L,Peduzzi P,Bradley EH

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the impact of adoption of a national health program on homeless care in the United States, care for this group in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was evaluated. Although hospital and medication charges are eliminated, primary care for the homeless lacks central government directive, suffers from over...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Reuler JB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study analyzed associations between income eligibility criteria under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and state characteristics. METHODS:We used multivariate methods to explore relations between eligibility expansions under SCHIP and percentages of uninsured children from low-inco...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Ullman F,Hill I

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research suggests that greater ethnic density correlates with worse health among African Americans but better health among Hispanic Americans. These conflicting patterns may arise from Hispanic American samples being older than African American samples. We found that among 2367 Mexican American and 2790 African Americ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Alvarez KJ,Levy BR

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study determined the validity of self-reported data on selected health insurance characteristics. METHODS:We obtained telephone survey data on the presence of health insurance, source of insurance, length of time insured, and type of insurance (managed care or fee-for-service) from a random sample of 3...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Nelson DE,Thompson BL,Davenport NJ,Penaloza LJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased incidence of obvious live-birth neural tube defects (i.e., spina bifida cystica and encephalocele) occurred in Jamaica 11 to 18 months after Hurricane Gilbert. The conceptions of the affected babies coincided with a rise in megaloblastic change in sickle cell patients, suggesting a wide-spread drop in die...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Duff EM,Cooper ES

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol with body composition, leisure-time physical activity, cigarette smoking, and education were examined in a community-based sample of 480 Black and 1337 White women. Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated inverse associations of HDL with body mass ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Heath GW,Macera CA,Croft JB,Mace ML,Gillette T,Wheeler FC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to analyze overall and cause-specific mortality among injection drug users in Rome. METHODS:A cohort of 4200 injection drug users was enrolled in drug treatment centers from 1980 through 1988 and followed up until December 1992. RESULTS:The age-adjusted mortality rate from all ...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Davoli M,Perucci CA,Rapiti E,Bargagli AM,D'Ippoliti D,Forastiere F,Abeni D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this article the author describes public health advocacy and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding how it works. METHODS:The proposed framework incorporates the image of an assembly line. The public health advocacy assembly line produces changes in societal resource allocation that are necess...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Christoffel KK

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of feedback and financial incentives on physician compliance with cancer screening guidelines for women 50 years of age and older in a Medicaid health maintenance organization (HMO). METHODS:Half of 52 primary care sites received the intervention, which inc...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hillman AL,Ripley K,Goldfarb N,Nuamah I,Weiner J,Lusk E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the association of physical activity with serum lipoprotein(a) [La(a)] levels in individuals according to whether they had a family history of coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS:Lp(a) levels in 332 healthy Spanish men aged 20 to 60 years were measured. Physical activity and family hi...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Martín S,Elosua R,Covas MI,Pavesi M,Vila J,Marrugat J

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and whether its activities infri...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Kass NE

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2001, Maryland's court of appeals was asked to decide whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University had engaged in unethical research on children. During the 1990s, Johns Hopkins's Kennedy Krieger Institute had studied 108 African American children, aged 6 months to 6 years, to find an inexpensive and "practical"...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Rosner D,Markowitz G

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined absence rates among US Department of Energy workers who had beryllium sensitization (BeS) or were diagnosed with chronic beryllium disease (CBD) compared with those of other workers. METHODS:We used the lymphocyte proliferation test to determine beryllium sensitivity. In addition, we app...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Watkins JP,Ellis ED,Girardi DJ,Cragle DL,Richter BS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A longitudinal survey assessed the distribution of adult body weight among the Chinese population. METHODS:Data from the 1989 and 1991 China Health and Nutrition Survey were used to study changes in the proportions of adults aged 20-45 years who were classified as underweight, normal weight, overweight, and...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Popkin BM,Paeratakul S,Ge K,Zhai F

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We sought to determine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with Mycoplasma genitalium infection in a nationally representative sample of young adults in the United States. METHODS:Urine specimens from 1714 women and 1218 men who participated in Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adoles...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Manhart LE,Holmes KK,Hughes JP,Houston LS,Totten PA

更新日期：2007-06-01 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 sought to document the sequence and timing of milestones in the process of smoking cessation by prospectively studied cessation milestones among novice adolescent smokers. METHODS:Participants, aged 12 to 13 years in 1999 (n = 1293), completed self-report questionnaires every 3 months during the school y...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： O'Loughlin J,Gervais A,Dugas E,Meshefedjian G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined the association between exposure to chlorophenates and the risk of soft tissue sarcoma; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; and cancers of the lung, nose, and nasopharynx. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was conducted of 26487 workers employed for at least 1 year between 1950...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： Hertzman C,Teschke K,Ostry A,Hershler R,Dimich-Ward H,Kelly S,Spinelli JJ,Gallagher RP,McBride M,Marion SA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the relative risk of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents and fatalities after New Mexico lifted its ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales. We extracted all alcohol-related crashes from New Mexico police reports for 3652 days between July 1, 1990, and June 30, 2000, and found a 29% increase in alcohol-...

journal_title：American journal of public health

authors： McMillan GP,Lapham S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00