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PROGRAMS, PRACTICES, PEOPLE
  • Published Date:

    1990 Nov-Dec

  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 105(6):641-644
  • Language:
    English
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      DeBoy, J M
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):584-588
      Description:
      In 1989 Maryland became the first State to enact legislation, separate from existing laboratory law, authorizing a comprehensive, self-supporting program to regulate cholesterol screening conducted outside of laboratories and physicians' offices. Thi...
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      Linnan, L A; Gans, K M; Hixson, M L; Mendes, E; Longpre, H; Carleton, R A;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):589-598
      Description:
      The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health launched the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) in 1985. With the goal of reducing the prevalence of elevated blood cholesterol in the United States, the NC...
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      Personal Author:
      Martin, D J
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):638-640
      Description:
      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, adolescents, hemophiliacs, and others who may become infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV...
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      Personal Author:
      Adams, M M; Scherr, P A; Branch, L G; Hebert, L E; Cook, N R; Lane, A M; Brock, D B; Evans, D A; Taylor, J O;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):617-622
      Description:
      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 and social status questionnaire. Data on age, sex, and living arrangements for the 4,485 eligible pe...
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      Rivara, F P; Morgan, P; Bergman, A B; Maier, R V;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):635-638
      Description:
      A key element in the study of trauma problems is the design and development of adequate and affordable surveillance systems. One proposed method is the use of data available from hospital discharge abstract data base systems. However, surveillance sy...
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      Matuszak, D L; Panny, S R; Patel, J; Israel, E;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):562-566
      Description:
      Because blood specimens from newborns reflect the antibody status of the mother, seroprevalence rates among childbearing women are obtainable from analysis of the specimens. A blinded survey of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody seroprevalen...
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      Personal Author:
      Alexander, P G; Johnson, R; Williams, W W; Hadler, S C; White, J W; Coleman, P J;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):610-616
      Description:
      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 associated with hospital size (60 percent of those with 100 beds, 75 percent with 100-499 beds, 90 ...
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      Personal Author:
      Mullooly, J P; Schuman, K L; Stevens, V J; Glasgow, R E; Vogt, T M;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):623-628
      Description:
      Smoking-related data collected during 1976-87 by anonymous cross-sectional surveys of nonphysician employees of a large medical care organization were used to assess how a work site smoking ban affected employees' smoking behavior and attitudes. The ...
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      Nov-Dec 1990
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      Public Health Rep. 105(6)
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      Personal Author:
      Hardy, A M
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):629-634
      Description:
      Information collected with the 1989 National Health Interview Survey of AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes from a nationally representative sample of 40,609 adults was examined to determine how knowledge about AIDS varied within demographic subgroups of th...
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      Published Date:
      Nov-Dec 1990
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6)
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      Personal Author:
      Sable, M R; Stockbauer, J W; Schramm, W F; Land, G H;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):549-555
      Description:
      Inadequate prenatal care has previously been identified as a significant risk factor for women who have low birth weight infants and infants who die during the neonatal period. Postpartum interviews with 1,484 primarily low-income women were conducte...
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      Personal Author:
      Goodman, Richard A.; Bauman, Cindy F.; Gregg, Michael B.; Videtto, Janis F.; Stroup, Donna F.; Chalmers, Nancy P.;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):604-610
      Description:
      The epidemiologic field investigation is an important tool used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to provide assistance to State, local, and international public health agencies. The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the CDC is an ongoing...
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      Personal Author:
      Thacker, Stephen B.; Goodman, Ricard A.; Dicker, Richard C.;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):599-604
      Description:
      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 practice of applied epidemiology. Since 1951, more than 1,700 professional have served in this 2-ye...
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      Personal Author:
      Guendelman, S; Jasis, M;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):575-583
      Description:
      There is growing concern that the indigent health care burden in the southwestern United States may be caused partly by Mexican residents who cross the border to use U.S. health services. This article describes the first attempt to measure the extent...
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      Personal Author:
      Novello, Aantonia C.
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):545-548
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      Nov-Dec 1990
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      Public Health Rep 105 (6)
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      Personal Author:
      Watkins, E L; Larson, K; Harlan, C; Young, S;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):567-575
      Description:
      A bilingual, multidisciplinary team of health professionals collaborated with a migrant health center in North Carolina to develop a model program to deliver primary health care services to migrant farmworker women and children. The program included ...
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      Korenbrot, C C; Brindis, C; Priddy, F;
      Published Date:
      1990 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(6):555-562
      Description:
      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 restriction on Federal funding of abortions under the Hyde Amendment in 1977 was not clear. However, abor...
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