The need to integrate social and medical services to deal with the issues of child abuse prevention and treatment has been documented frequently. In rural areas, referral to the various programs developed to reach the at-risk child is hampered by lack of communication, personal contact, and understanding of the roles and functions among the staffs of the agencies involved. Networking provides an interdisciplinary team approach to foster communication and coordination among the agencies' staffs and increase the effectiveness of their efforts. A model for developing an interagency network in a rural area is presented, eliciting key liaison persons as coordinators.
Data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to estimate arithmetic mean blood lead and percent with elevated blood lead [...
A disproportionately high number of AIDS cases in the United States involve members of racial minorities. Even so, AIDS deaths of minority members may...
In a 1988 appraisal of the status and progress of the injury control program at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a National Academy of Sciences'...
Studies of liver cancer mortality are subject to confusion attributable to the changes in categories by which liver cancer is identified in successive...
The Vietnam Era Twin Registry consists of 4,774 male-male twin pairs born between 1939 and 1957 with both brothers having served in the U.S. military ...
In July 1987, a workshop was held to evaluate the environmental health workforce. The workshop was sponsored by the Bureau of Health Professions. Heal...
Seven State health departments, those in Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, have participated in an effor...
Community water fluoridation has served the American public extremely well as the cornerstone of dental caries prevention activities for 45 years. The...
This article traces some of the most important changes in demographics, health, and disease in the U.S. since 1889. The nation has grown, urbanized, a...
Associated with the increased popularity of cats as pets in American households has been an increase in the number of cat bites reported to health dep...
According to the 1980 census, blacks in Suffolk County on Long Island, NY, had a median family income of almost $20,000 versus $12,618 for blacks in t...
The leading cause of death among black people in the United States is coronary heart disease, accounting for about 25 percent of the deaths. The Task ...
The Abbreviated Injury Scale with Epidemiologic Modifications (AIS 85-EM) was developed to make it possible to code information about anatomic injury ...
In an investigation of the prevalence of safety packaging of medications, 131 randomly selected Minneapolis and St. Paul households with children were...
The investigators considered the relationship between participation in aquatic activities and the consumption of alcohol, with their implications for ...
Trends in age- and sex-specific mortality rates for all causes of death for Indians in Minnesota during the years 1960-79 were examined using the Mant...
This cross-sectional survey was undertaken to examine whether the homeless poor have a higher prevalence of risk factors for ill health than the nonho...
Children around the world experience violence at the hands of their caregivers at alarming rates. A recent review estimates that a minimum of 50% of c...
Background:Physical punishment (PP), which may involve the use of physical force, has been linked to negative effects in children and can escalate to ...
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