The relationship between health habits and health status has gained attention in the literature in recent decades. In this report, the health habits of a particular occupational group--the military--are compared with those of the civilian population, and the extent to which the health habits of the military personnel are associated with their health status is examined. Responses to two surveys conducted in 1985 were analyzed by age group, sex, race, and educational level. The comparisons involved six of the seven health habits included in the Alameda study. Military personnel, because they are younger and their lives are more regimented, excel in meeting weight standards for the services and engaging in desirable levels of physical activity. Smoking habits of military personnel were less favorable than those of the civilians. An examination of the health status of the military for the year preceding the survey suggested that some health habits have immediate manifestations, but the impact of others may not be evident until later in life.
Using injuries associated with three-wheeled all-terrain vehicles in Alaska as an example, the existing injury data bases were assessed for usefulness, cost, simplicity, acceptability, flexibility, sensitivity, specificity, representativeness, and ti...
Despite an increase in policies regulating smoking at the workplace, little research has been conducted on organizational factors that may be associated with the adoption of those policies. In November 1986, a survey assessing tobacco use habits was ...
Data from different sources show that Hispanics are over-represented in reported cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (twice their proportion of the population) and that their rate of infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is t...
Although fetal development is known to be sensitive to environmental agents, relatively little epidemiologic research has addressed this concern. Effects on pregnancy outcome of self-reported parental exposure to pesticides and to radiation were exam...
Medical records of 822 inpatients and outpatients cared for by the Department of the Federal District medical services during the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes were reviewed. Record incompleteness varied between 92.8 percent and 14.0 percent for the v...
Home care programs for severely disabled, usually technology-dependent, children got a boost in 1981 when the Federal Government gave States permission to use Medicaid to fund home care under the Medicaid model home- and community-based waiver (2176)...
This paper profiles the faculty in schools of public health, particularly in environmental health. There are approximately 1,650 faculty members in schools of public health; 300 of them are in environmental health. The future demand for personnel in ...
Solomon, D J; Hogan, A J; Bouknight, R R; Solomon, C T;
Published Date:
1989 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(5):416-424
Description:
To obtain better understanding of the nature and cost of health care related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, medical payment records were analyzed for 204 men, women, and children older than 60 months who had indications of HIV infec...
Wones, R G; Kerman, K M; Hissa, D C; Meloy, N; Stein, E A;
Published Date:
1989 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(5):425-432
Description:
Total and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels of 2,387 adults were screened at a worksite and a bloodbank. Hypothetical referral decisions were made according to three sets of guidelines: the 1984 National Institutes of Health Consensus...
O'Connor, P J; Fragneto, R; Coulehan, J; Crabtree, B F;
Published Date:
1989 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(5):478-482
Description:
A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate whether glucose control in 20 non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects seen at a remote rural clinic was comparable to control achieved in 66 diabetic subjects seen at the regional hospital clinic. ...
Buehler, J W; Stroup, D F; Klaucke, D N; Berkelman, R L;
Published Date:
1989 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(5):457-465
Description:
The authors used 1987 data from the Epidemiologic Surveillance Project (ESP) of the Centers for Disease Control to examine the completeness of race-ethnicity reporting in the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. And, to the extent possib...
Homeless people eat foods at municipal and charity run shelters, fast-food restaurants, delicatessens, and from garbage bins. Data on the adequacy of the diets and the nutritional status of homeless persons are sparse. Therefore, nutritional indicato...
The effects during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of having a parent with a drinking problem has interested researchers in several countries. The greatest number of reports related to this subject have appeared in the U.S. literature and in th...
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Analysis.
Published Date:
November 4, 1980
Series:
Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 64
DHEW publication ; no. (PHS) 80-1250
Description:
A study of the relationship between personal health practices and health consequences was conducted in A1ameda County, California, in 1965 by the Human Population Laboratory of the California State Department of Public Health. Findings indicated a po...
Schoenborn, Charlotte A.; Adams, Patricia F.; Barnes, Patricia M., M.A; Vickerie, Jackline L.; Schiller, Jeannine S.;
Corporate Authors:
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), Division of Health Interview Statistics
Published Date:
February 2004
Series:
Vital and health statistics. Series 10, Data from the National Health Survey ; no. 219
DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2004-1547
Description:
This report presents prevalence estimates for key indicators of alcohol use, cigarette smoking, leisure-time physical activity, and body weight status among U.S. adults, using data from the 1999-2001 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS). The NHIS...
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), Division of Health Interview Statistics.
Published Date:
March 2010
Series:
Vital and health statistics. Series 10, Data from the National Health Survey ; no. 245
DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2010-1573
Description:
"Objective: This report presents selected prevalence estimates for key indicators of alcohol use, cigarette smoking, leisure-time physical activity, body weight status, and sleep among U.S. adults, using data from the 2005-2007 National Health Interv...
Seven health habits, commonly referred to as the "Alameda 7," were shown to be associated with physical health status and mortality in a pioneer longitudinal study initiated in 1965 in Alameda County, CA. These habits are having never smoked, drinkin...