abstract：:Curriculum guidelines for the education of primary care practitioners (PCPs) about AIDS and AIDS-related disorders have been developed by the National Fund for Medical Education (NFME). The guidelines resulted from a modified Delphi authority opinion survey with two iterations and have been edited by the authors. The ...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Noble JT,Stearns NS,Wolff SM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need to assess better the relationship between physical activity and other health behaviors through population-based studies. Using the state-based Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examined the behavioral risk factors of smoking, alcohol use, hypertension detection, obesity, seat-belt use, and...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Heath GW,Kendrick JS

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although alcohol use has been established as a risk factor for injuries associated with motor vehicle crashes, the role of alcohol for other unintentional and intentional injuries is less defined. A review of 102,401 deaths investigated by North Carolina medical examiners in the period 1973-1983 characterized the temp...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Smith SM,Goodman RA,Thacker SB,Burton AH,Parsons JE,Hudson P

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventive health services are most effective when provided to large groups, but health care professionals often are limited to provision to individuals or small groups. As recent studies show, the effects of preventive services can be enhanced through the use of community organization, which mobilizes a community's e...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Kinne S,Thompson B,Chrisman NJ,Hanley JR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used data on a stratified random sample of 809 Quebec physicians to determine the extent to which the integration of prevention into medical practice was related to physicians' sociodemographic background, area of specialization, medical practice characteristics, and professional attitudes. Among factors positively...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Maheux B,Pineault R,Lambert J,Béland F,Berthiaume M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the relationships of cigarette smoking and smoking histories to marital and parental status. Data from a large, representative sample of U.S. adults in 1985 were analyzed separately for white men, white women, black men, and black women, with controls for age, education, and marital status included...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Waldron I,Lye D

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The teaching of clinical epidemiology to second-year students at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine is carried out using journal articles to illustrate concepts. Because of the need for discussion, the instructors believed that the concepts of epidemiology might best be learned by, and that greater satisfaction with t...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Romm FJ,Dignan M,Herman JM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 10 years a good deal of effort has focused on preventing cigarette smoking among adolescents. This effort has often been made without a clear understanding of (1) which groups within the population are at highest risk, (2) which variables are associated with habitual smoking rather than experimentation...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Spear SF,Akers RL

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public screening for elevated blood cholesterol has become a common practice, supported by national recommendations. However, little is known about the response to referral for medical follow-up of those found to have high cholesterol levels. During a one-year period, 424 adults from a population-based screening and e...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Råstam L,Luepker RV,Pirie PL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interviews regarding AIDS knowledge and related behavior change were conducted with a random sample of 409 unmarried individuals 18-39 years of age in Richmond, Virginia, between March 18 and April 3, 1987. Eight percent of the sample described themselves as "gay" or "bisexual," 92% as "heterosexual" (or "straight"). ...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Keeter S,Bradford JB

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to determine the effects of prescribed rates of breast self-examination (BSE) on reported frequency of BSE per year. Fifty-one women were divided at random into three groups: a weekly prescription, every-two-weeks prescription, and monthly prescription. All women were trained to competence...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Kenney E,Hovell MF,Mewborn CR,Dockter B,Chin L

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the availability of safe, accurate prenatal diagnosis for hemoglobinopathies, we wanted to know if pregnant women identified as carriers of a hemoglobinopathy by prenatal screening use this information to determine whether their fetus is at risk. Blood from all pregnant women served by a 40 percent sample o...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Rowley PT,Loader SO,Sutera CJ,Walden M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health risk appraisal is an attractive health education technique but suffers from methodologic weaknesses. Many of the problems center on the formula that is usually used to estimate the combined effects of different disease precursors. The formula does not reflect current models of disease causation, underestimates ...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Spasoff RA,McDowell IW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent increases in breast-feeding in the United States have renewed interest in its associated health effects. In addition to known protective effects related to diarrheal disease in infancy and allergies, breast-feeding may be related to other health and developmental concerns with health cost implications. Data fro...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Labbok MH,Hendershot GE

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Epidemiologic Surveillance Project (ESP) is a computer-based surveillance system for the rapid transmission and analysis of national morbidity data. These data are transmitted weekly by state health department computers to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), using a commercial electronic mail facility (MINET). ...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Graitcer PL,Burton AH

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local public health departments traditionally have been supported as providers of preventive care and, in some jurisdictions, as guarantors of other essential services to vulnerable populations that usual providers do not reach. In the 1980s, the responsibility for allocating federal grants for public health shifted t...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Brooks EF,Miller CA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy of the Stanford Quit Kit, an eight-page self-administered smoking cessation program. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive the Quit Kit (n = 142) or a delayed intervention (n = 65). Confirmed abstinence (p less than .05) and reduced smoking among continuing smokers (p less than .002) wer...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Sallis JF,Hill RD,Killen JD,Telch MJ,Flora JA,Girard J,Taylor CB,Fortmann SP

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the effectiveness of an incentive-based approach to screening for hypertension by comparing it to two more typical on-site screenings. In the "bounty system," adolescents were trained and certified in blood pressure assessment to enable them to conduct door-to-door blood pressure screenings. The y...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Elder JP,McKenna CA,Lazieh M,Ferreira A,Lasater TM,Carleton RA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed a self-selected sample of dairy farm owners/residents to determine the feasibility of establishing a surveillance system that would identify health risks common to this type of farming activity. Data obtained included demographic characteristics of the farm families, number of milk cows, prevalence of sele...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Stallones L,Pratt DS,May JJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beings have always lived with risks and have coped as best they could, according to their perceptions of the relative dangers and the mechanisms available to them. Being conscious of risks helps us to confront and cope with them, but it also has negative effects. The multiplicity of threats and the urgency with ...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Mason JO,Ogden HG,Berreth DA,Martin LY

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the maternal mortality and the age-specific mortality rates for the under 25 year olds in six border regions on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border and compares them with those of adjoining regions in Mexico. On the U.S. side of the border, the improvement in the general mortality status of mat...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Chan LS,Portnoy B

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the need for universal and better health education has been recognized, no nationwide comprehensive program has been established. Consequently, we are proposing founding a national program of statewide health education networks, comparable in some ways to the Cooperative Extension Services of Land-Grant and S...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Fulton GP,Entel R,Still CN

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the associations between medical students' first choice for their graduate medical education specialty (primary care versus non-primary care) and both their sociodemographic characteristics and their perceptions of the importance of 44 factors related to that choice, we conducted a survey of the 1982 se...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Franklin RR,Samaha PA,Rice JC,Igras SM

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of Rhode Island is aging more rapidly than that of most states and, therefore, can be used to illustrate the effects of aging on health systems, effects that may occur somewhat later or less extensively in most other states. Rhode Island population projections indicate a lull in aging between 1990 and 2...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Kelley BC

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between mortality and ruralness in the state of Georgia. In 1979, the rural Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) for deaths from all causes was significantly higher than expected when compared to statewide levels, while the urban SMR was significantly lower (p less than 0.01). Of the...

journal_title：American journal of preventive medicine

authors： Wright JS,Champagne F,Dever GE,Clark FC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00