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Public Health Reports ; v. 106, no. 3, January-February 1991 : cover
  • Published Date:
    May-Jun 1991
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 106(3)
  • Language:
    English
Filetype[PDF-472.12 KB]


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  • Description:
    SPECIAL SECTION: Forum on Youth Violence in Minority Communities: Setting the Agenda for Prevention. A Summary .

  • Document Type:
    Cover
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    Public Health Reports
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    1. Forum on youth violence in minority communities: setting the agenda for prevention. December 10-12, 1990, Atlanta, Georgia. Proceedings.
      Corporate Author:
      Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Morehouse School of Medicine.. Minority Health Professions Foundation..
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):225-279
      Description:
      This forum was cosponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and the Minority Health Professions Foundation. The Morehouse School of Medicine, a member of the Minority Health Professions Foundation, served as the coordinating institution for the For...
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      Filetype[PDF - 10.38 MB]
    2. New York State's two-dose schedule for measles immunization.
      Personal Author:
      Birkhead, G S; Morse, D L; Mills, I J; Novick, L F;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):338-344
      Description:
      In April 1989, New York became the first State in the United States to adopt a two-dose schedule for routine measles immunization. Although a two-dose schedule had been under discussion for the previous 10 years, this policy change was finally prompt...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.34 MB]
    3. Estimates of economic costs of alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness, 1985 and 1988.
      Personal Author:
      Rice, D P; Kelman, S; Miller, L S;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):280-292
      Description:
      The high prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness imposes a substantial financial burden on those affected and on society. The authors present estimates of the economic costs from these causes for 1985 and 1988, based on current and re...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 3.10 MB]
    4. Public Health Rep ; v. 106, no. 3 : Masthead
      Published:
      May-Jun 1991
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 657.65 KB]
    5. Shigellosis from swimming in a park pond in Michigan.
      Personal Author:
      Blostein, J
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):317-322
      Description:
      In July 1989 an outbreak of shigellosis occurred among visitors to a recreational park in Oakland County, MI. An epidemiologic investigation discovered an association between illness and swimming in a pond at the park, especially for those who had pu...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.37 MB]
    6. Dientamoeba fragilis detection methods and prevalence: a survey of state public health laboratories.
      Personal Author:
      Grendon, J H; Digiacomo, R F; Frost, F J;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):322-325
      Description:
      Dientamoeba fragilis is a pathogenic protozoan parasite that has no cyst stage. Because of the lack of a cyst stage, the laboratory detection of D. fragilis in stool specimens is dependent on the stool processing and examination methods employed. Fai...
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      Filetype[PDF - 638.94 KB]
    7. Current status of health promotion activities in four midwest cities.
      Personal Author:
      Weisbrod, R R; Bracht, N F; Pirie, P L; Veblen-Mortenson, S;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):310-317
      Description:
      Community-wide surveys were conducted in Winona and St. Cloud, MN, Eau Claire, WI, and Sioux Falls, SD, in 1986 and 1987 to determine the current status of the supply and demand of health promotion activities in nine categories. Supply and demand ind...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.34 MB]
    8. Building skills of recovering women drug users to reduce heterosexual AIDS transmission.
      Personal Author:
      Schilling, R F; el-Bassel, N; Schinke, S P; Gordon, K; Nichols, S;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):297-304
      Description:
      Although most women infected with HIV are intravenous drug users, some contact the virus through sexual contact with IV drug users. To reach at-risk women, public health officials must develop a range of prevention strategies. One approach, skills tr...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.33 MB]
    9. Promoting heart health for Southeast Asians: a database for planning interventions.
      Personal Author:
      Chen, M S; Kuun, P; Guthrie, R; Li, W; Zaharlick, A;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):304-309
      Description:
      This paper is a report of baseline data that the authors collected on the prevalence of hypertension in a sample of 397 Southeast Asian immigrants residing in central Ohio and the implications of those data for the design of ethnically approved and s...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.29 MB]
    10. Quantifying the disease impact of cigarette smoking with SAMMEC II software.
      Personal Author:
      Shultz, James M.; Novotny, Thomas E.; Rice, Dorothy P.;
      Corporate Author:
      Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.).‏ ‎Office on Smoking and Health‏.
      Conference Author:
      World Conference of Tobacco and Health (7th: 1990 April 1-5m Perth, Western Australia)
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):326-333
      Description:
      Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs Software, Release II (SAMMEC II) has been developed for the Office on Smoking and Health, Public Health Service, to permit rapid calculation of deaths, years of potential life lost, direct...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.29 MB]
    11. Public Health Rep ; v. 106, no. 3 : table of contents
      Published:
      May-Jun 1991
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 397.07 KB]
    12. A national survey of state maternal and newborn drug testing and reporting policies.
      Personal Author:
      Adirim, T A; Sen Gupta, N;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):292-296
      Description:
      The prevalence rate of drug use by pregnant women in the United States has been shown to range from 7.5 percent to 11 percent. Drug exposure in utero has been associated with deleterious effects on the fetus and newborn. Public health officials are c...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 780.59 KB]
    13. Problems in estimating the number of women in need of subsidized prenatal care.
      Personal Author:
      Buescher, P A; Peoples-Sheps, M D; Guild, P A; Siegel, E;
      Published:
      1991 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(3):333-338
      Description:
      For effective allocation of resources, public program planners need to know how many women require subsidized prenatal care and where they are located. Because sample surveys are expensive, indirect methods of estimation using secondary data sources ...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.01 MB]
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