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The changing challenges of women's health for society and the health care system.
  • Published Date:
    1987 Jul-Aug
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 102(4):349
  • Language:
    English
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    1. Maternal exposure to neighborhood carbon monoxide and risk of low infant birth weight.
      Personal Author:
      Alderman, B W; Baron, A E; Savitz, D A;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):410-414
      Description:
      This case-control study investigated the potential association between ambient levels of carbon monoxide in a pregnant woman's neighborhood of residence and her chance of delivering a low birth weight infant. Low birth weight infants and normal birth...
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    2. Job achievements of Indian and non-Indian graduates in public health: how do they compare?
      Personal Author:
      Owens, M V; Cameron, C M; Hickman, P;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):372-376
      Description:
      A graduate education program in public health for American Indians was introduced in the fall of 1971 at the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The program was initiated with support from the Office of Economic O...
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    3. Public Health Rep ; v. 102, no. 4, p. Masthead
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1987
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4)
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.49 MB]
    4. The Indian burden of illness and future health interventions.
      Personal Author:
      Rhoades, Everett R.; Hammond, John; Welty, Thomas K.; Handler, Aaron O.; Amler, Rovert W.;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):361-368
      Description:
      This article describes the burden of illness of Indians eligible for services from the Indian Health Service (IHS) and discusses strategies for reducing morbidity and mortality related to those conditions. To improve health to an extent that parallel...
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    5. The Indian Health Service record of achievement.
      Personal Author:
      Rhoades, E R; D'Angelo, A J; Hurlburt, W B;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):356-360
      Description:
      The Indian Health Service (IHS) was transferred from the Department of Interior to the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1955. At that time, the general health of Indian people substantially lagged behind th...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.84 MB]
    6. Inventory of surveys on smoking.
      Personal Author:
      Massey, M M; Boyd, G; Mattson, M; Feinleib, M R;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):430-438
      Description:
      A review of surveys on smoking was undertaken by the Smoking, Tobacco, and Cancer Program of the National Cancer Institute as part of its planning for smoking control interventions. Eighteen surveys collecting smoking data were identified. The key pe...
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    7. Using staff input to set priorities in an Indian Health Service clinic.
      Personal Author:
      Morrow, R C
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):369-372
      Description:
      The McLaughlin Public Health Service clinic serves several thousand Lakota people (Sioux) on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, SD. In 1981, a priority-setting exercise established for the first time a grassroots expression of the concerns of the clin...
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      Filetype[PDF - 630.18 KB]
    8. Public Health Rep ; v. 102, no. 4 : table of contents
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1987
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4)
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      Filetype[PDF - 424.93 KB]
    9. Terminal care preferences: hospice placement and severity of disease.
      Personal Author:
      Powers, J S; Burger, M C;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):444-449
      Description:
      National Hospice Study data for 1981-82 were used to predict the location of care for terminal cancer patients. Sites of care were conventional care in hospitals, hospital-based hospice care, and hospice care in the home. Subjects were terminal cance...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.23 MB]
    10. Effects of a health promotion advertising campaign on sales of ready-to-eat cereals.
      Personal Author:
      Levy, A S; Stokes, R C;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):398-403
      Description:
      The objective of this study was to determine how the sales of various segments of the high fiber and nonhigh fiber, ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal market were influenced by a health message advertising campaign about the possible benefits of a high fiber,...
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    11. Reported vague symptoms and at-risk status: the case of polyvinyl chloride workers in Louisville.
      Personal Author:
      Sands, R G; Greenberg, R A;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):438-444
      Description:
      This study concerns the frequency of visits to the dispensary by workers with vague symptoms of physical illness at a polyvinyl chloride plant in Louisville, KY, where an outbreak of hepatic angiosarcoma occurred. The illness behavior of three cohort...
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    12. Characteristics of drug abusers that discriminate needle-sharers.
      Personal Author:
      Dolan, M P; Black, J L; Deford, H A; Skinner, J R; Robinowitz, R;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):395-398
      Description:
      To identify variables that discriminate needle-sharing among drug abusers, 224 male drug abusers were studied. They had been admitted to a 30-day inpatient drug treatment program over a 19-month period (September 1983 through March 1985). The variabl...
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    13. Public Health Rep
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1987
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    14. Increased infant mortality in Jersey City.
      Personal Author:
      Berman, S M; Shapiro, E; Hogue, C J; Halpin, G J;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):404-409
      Description:
      The infant mortality rate for 1982 in Jersey City, a medium-sized urban community, was found to have increased sharply from that for 1981. An investigation by health officials revealed that the increase occurred only among infants delivered to Jersey...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.07 MB]
    15. Use of a compliance index for community fluoridation.
      Personal Author:
      Kuthy, R A; Wulf, C A; Corbin, S B;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):415-420
      Description:
      Fluoridation of public water supplies is the best method of preventing dental caries. Yet, many water systems do not maintain the optimal concentration of fluoride. The Community Fluoridation Compliance Index was developed to provide retrospective an...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.15 MB]
    16. An approach to the problem of teenage pregnancy.
      Personal Author:
      Macdonald, D I
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):377-385
      Description:
      Sex education continues to gain prominence as a critical factor in current challenges to the nation's public health. Adolescent pregnancy, with its frequently adverse consequences for the health and well-being of both mother and child, has reached un...
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    17. The voluntary acceptance of HIV-antibody screening by intravenous drug users.
      Personal Author:
      Carlson, G A; McClellan, T A;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):391-394
      Description:
      Intravenous drug abusers in a methadone program in Minnesota were offered HIV-antibody screening to determine the degree of interest in screening and extent of infection. Thirty-nine (85 percent) were willing to be tested. Only seven refused. All pat...
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    18. The impact of the addition of naloxone on the use and abuse of pentazocine.
      Personal Author:
      Baum, C; Hsu, J P; Nelson, R C;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):426-429
      Description:
      An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously. The resulting ...
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    19. The organization of health services for Indian people.
      Personal Author:
      Rhoades, E R; Reyes, L L; Buzzard, G D;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):352-356
      Description:
      The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Public Health Service. It was formed in 1955 by a transfer of health services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Inter...
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    20. Marketing family planning services in New Orleans.
      Personal Author:
      Bertrand, J T; Proffitt, B J; Bartlett, T L;
      Published:
      1987 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 102(4):420-426
      Description:
      The health care profession is witnessing a shift in focus from the interests and needs of the service provider to those of the potential consumer in an effort to attract and maintain clients. This study illustrates the role that marketing research ca...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.16 MB]
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