The nation's supply of family physicians as estimated by the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee appears fairly accurate. At the same time, the demands for family physicians appear to be strong, partially because case-management systems recognize the cost-effectiveness and appropriate training of family physicians for their needs. The largest factor inhibiting the supply of such physicians appears to be the relatively lower income of family practice compared to other specialty fields. This creates more difficulties in funding training positions and may limit the attractiveness of the field to medical school graduates.
Women's access to prenatal nutrition services was explored using a nationally representative sample of pregnant participants in the Special Supplement...
The reported practices and recommendations of primary care physicians with regard to cancer screening of elderly patients (65 years and older) were st...
The Disabilities Prevention Program builds on traditional Centers for Disease Control (CDC) strengths in public health surveillance, epidemiology, and...
Because of the rising percentage of elderly in the population and the cost of health care expenditures, interest has increased in preventive health ca...
With today's lower mortality rates, longer expectations of life, and new medical technologies, the nation's health policy focus has shifted from empha...
The authors examined the factors associated with methadone patients' decisions about participating in a clinic-based AIDS prevention protocol. Despite...
Pedestrian fatalities caused by motor vehicles in King County, WA, over a 12-month period were reviewed to examine the potential for prevention by var...
Four experiments were conducted to assess the precision and accuracy of the Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics Reflotron, an instrument that is being ado...
In order to characterize the children who enter emergency shelters in Boston, we reviewed the data collected at intake interviews by the pediatric nur...
The Mental Health Services for the Homeless Block Grant Program has made available more than $57 million to the States in fiscal years 1987-89 to enco...
To examine correlates and childhood predictors of serum total cholesterol in adolescence, measures of growth, development, and obesity were related to...
A univariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with suicide for residents of the State of Maryland was conducted. The investigation was ...
In November 1985, the New York State Department of Health was altered to extraordinary concentrations of asbestos leachate in the drinking water in th...
The determination of years of potential life lost (YPLL) can aid in monitoring changes in premature mortality among various population groups. While p...
The health status of Indian teenagers in the United States is below that of the general population. The usual barriers to the use of health care servi...
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