abstract：:The current practice of screening mammography in the United States has been the focus of numerous legislative and regulatory mandates at the state and federal levels, both in terms of increasing access to age-eligible women and elevating the quality of mammographic imaging. Several parameters have emerged as central t...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Fintor L,Alciati MH,Fischer R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Universal access to medical services will not address all important health needs. Impending health care reform, guided by public health strategies, could achieve many previously unattainable health goals. However, such a public health role seems unlikely. Public health reaches beyond the current popular notion of prev...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Freeman P,Robbins A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the process used to develop an environmental health addendum to the Assessment Protocol for Public Health (APEX/PH). Local health departments in Washington State are undertaking a trial program utilizing APEX/PH. The environmental health addendum was developed in response to the paucity of environ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： McDonald TL,Treser CD,Hatlen JB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied patterns and levels of enforcement of the legal drinking age in the United States. Major findings include: (1) rates of enforcement of the legal drinking age are very low; (2) actions against outlets or adults providing alcohol to youth are particularly rare; (3) two of every thousand occasions of illegal d...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Wagenaar AC,Wolfson M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent reform of the health care system in Quebec can be viewed as the result of a continuous process that originated with the first reform launched in the early 70s. The reform focuses on three elements: decentralization, citizen participation, and outcome-centered management. The context in which the reform is b...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Pineault R,Lamarche PA,Champagne F,Contandriopoulos AP,Denis JL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study is in progress to document changes in selected public health departments over the past decade and to use those observations for proposing an assessment protocol that may be helpful in measuring progress toward achieving one of the Health Objectives for the Nation for the Year 2000. Objective no. 8.14 reads: "I...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Miller CA,Moore KS,Richards TB,Kotelchuck M,Kaluzny AD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minors' access to tobacco has become an important public health issue. Little is known, however, about the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior toward access among executives from businesses that sell tobacco. This study examined access from the perspective of corporate and regional headquarters of retail chain...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Altman DG,Linzer J,Kropp R,Descheemaeker N,Feighery E,Fortmann SP

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhode Island Department of Health has undertaken a Breast Cancer Screening Program which incorporates assessment, policy development, and assurance functions, following the model proposed in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Public Health. With the community's help, projects have been implement...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Scott HD,DeBuono BA,Fulton JP,Smith RA,Feldman JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traffic crashes and crime both impose significant economic and social burdens through injury and loss of life, as well as property damage and loss. Efforts to reduce crashes and crime often result in competing demands on limited public resources. Comparable and up-to-date cost data on crashes and crime contribute to i...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Streff FM,Molnar LJ,Cohen MA,Miller TR,Rossman SB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regionalized perinatal care is intended to guarantee pregnant women and neonates access to appropriate care regardless of ability to pay. Its effectiveness depends on the willingness of hospitals to transfer high-risk patients according to established protocols and affiliations. This study examines maternal transfers ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Handler A,Rosenberg D,Driscoll M,Cohen M,Swift E,Garcia P,Cohn J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Institute of Medicine's The Future of Public Health calls for a strengthening of linkages between public health and mental health, with a view to integrating the functions at the service delivery level. This paper details the history of the mental health/public health interface in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1977, men...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Collier MT,Lambropoulos AS,Williams-Glasser G,Baron ST,Birkmeyer J

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This presentation proposes that cause-specific mortality analyses are greatly enhanced by first examining the cause-specific pattern of the entire mortality structure instead of restricting initial assessments to a limited number of leading causes of death. Six broad cause groups are defined toward this end. The advan...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Plaut RR,Silvi JJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of class conflict in occupational health in the United States is illustrated by the current Pittston Company attack on coal miners' health benefits, the silicosis and asbestosis controversies, the corporate restrictions on state workers' compensation laws, and the unremitting management opposition to the f...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kerr LE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available evidence indicates that the "decriminalization" of marijuana possession had little or no impact on rates of use. Although rates of marijuana use increased in those U.S. states which reduced maximum penalties for possession to a fine, the prevalence of use increased at similar or higher rates in those sta...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Single EW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution to the problem of infant mortality in the U.S. is not medical but social, economic and environmental. In the U.S., 70% of infant mortality is neonatal, death in the 1st month of life, due to factors in pregnancy and delivery. The remainder of mortality is primarily related to socio-economic factors such...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Wagner MG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaysia offers an instructive case study of health care changes in a rapidly developing country. The pace of improvements in life expectancy and maternal and child health has been even more rapid than that in the US in the 1st half of the 20th century. Life expectancy at birth increased from 57 years in 1957 to 69 ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Harlan WR,Harlan LC,Oii WL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:106 low income sexually active women ages 15-30 years were interviewed at a hospital clinic to determine whether the psychosocial characteristics associated with effective use of contraception are susceptible to policy shifts (e.g., changes in the availability of welfare benefits or abortion services). 60% of the wom...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Murphy JG,Symington BE,Jacobson S

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00