The Vermont Department of Health reviewed 2,035 reports of selected notifiable diseases received from January 1, 1986, through December 31, 1987. Laboratories provided 1,160, or 71 percent, of the initial reports on 1,636 confirmed cases. This demonstrates that laboratories, when required by law and when part of active surveillance, can make a significant contribution to surveillance of infectious disease. A survey of primary care physicians indicated that 18 percent always reported notifiable diseases. The most frequently mentioned reason for lack of reporting was an assumption that the laboratory would report the cases.
Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region is a prepaid group practice health maintenance organization. Among the employed are 65 physician assistants (PAs) w...
As the Federal agency that provides leadership in expanding access to primary health care, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) man...
The principal responsibility of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is to see to it that primary health care services and qualifie...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse supports the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), a voluntary data collection system through which hospital emergen...
Current national activities directed toward improving access to health care and assessing the potential effectiveness of various financing and service...
Strategies designed to meet the health care needs of Americans should include the issues of access as well as financing. And primary care and clinical...
Indian infant mortality rates (IMR) in the State of Oklahoma follow a downward linear trend from 13 per 1,000 live births in the 1975-76 period to 5.8...
The Cuban-born population of the U.S., enumerated at 608,000 in the 1980 census, has been little studied with regard to cancer mortality. Being older ...
The Forsyth County, NC, Cervical Cancer Prevention Project is a 5-year public health education program designed to increase the proportion of black wo...
A coordinated national effort to control the HIV epidemic based on an early intervention model must be initiated. This national strategy will provide ...
Mortality, cardiovascular risk factors, and diet were compared in Tianjin province, People's Republic of China; in North Karelia Province, Finland; an...
Access to obstetrical services has deteriorated in recent years, as large numbers of physicians have discontinued or restricted obstetrical practice. ...
Intravenous (i.v.) drug users are a key factor in the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, yet epidemiologic information abou...
Objectives:To determine the proportion of children whose parents prefer them to receive live, attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) or inactivated influ...
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