There is growing concern that the indigent health care burden in the southwestern U.S. may be caused partly by Mexican residents who cross the border ...
A bilingual, multidisciplinary team of health professionals collaborated with a migrant health center in North Carolina to develop a model program to ...
A random sample of 232 U.S. hospitals was surveyed. Of those hospitals, 75 percent had hepatitis B vaccination programs. The presence of a program was...
In 1989 Maryland became the first State to enact legislation, separate from existing laboratory law, authorizing a comprehensive, self-supporting prog...
Because blood specimens from newborns reflect the antibody status of the mother, seroprevalence rates among childbearing women are obtainable from ana...
Inadequate prenatal care has previously been identified as a significant risk factor for women who have low birth weight infants and infants who die d...
The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) was created at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1951 as a combined training and service program in the...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health launched the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) in 1985....
The use of condoms has been advocated as an important method of reducing the risk of AIDS for such people as gay men, prostitutes, IV drug users, adol...
Abortion rates rose following the expanded legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. As a result, the impact of the restr...
The epidemiologic field investigation is an important tool used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to provide assistance to State, local, and in...
A key element in the study of trauma problems is the design and development of adequate and affordable surveillance systems. One proposed method is th...
Smoking-related data collected during 1976-87 by anonymous cross-sectional surveys of nonphysician employees of a large medical care organization were...
In 1982-83, 4,485 persons ages 65 or older were identified by a household census in East Boston, MA: 3,812 (85 percent) of them responded to a health ...
Information collected with the 1989 National Health Interview Survey of AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes from a nationally representative sample of 40,609...
Because of the variety of needs engendered by AIDS, a broadbased response to the epidemic is warranted. The traditional medical model, with its emphas...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), one of the seven agencies of the Public Health Service, is working to meet some of the resour...
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