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The association of prenatal nutrition and educational services with low birth weight rates in a Florida program.
  • Published Date:
    1991 Jul-Aug
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 106(4):426-436
  • Language:
    English
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    1. Piecing together the crazy quilt of prenatal care.
      Personal Author:
      Machala, M; Miner, M W;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):353-360
      Description:
      The failure to provide adequate prenatal care for low-income pregnant women in the United States and the effects of this failure on infant mortality are well known. Many studies have identified institutional barriers against access to care as a major...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.61 MB]
    2. Is battered women's help seeking connected to the level of their abuse?
      Personal Author:
      Reidy, R; Von Korff, M;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):360-364
      Description:
      A total of 289 abused women who sought assistance in several battered women's agencies were interviewed. Of these abused women, 70 percent reported a delay of more than a year in seeking help from the agency, even though many of them reported having ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 831.72 KB]
    3. Nutrition and health services needs among the homeless.
      Personal Author:
      Wiecha, J L; Dwyer, J T; Dunn-Strohecker, M;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):364-374
      Description:
      This review discusses nutrition and related health problems among homeless Americans, summarizes recent information, and identifies needs for services and future research. The nature of homelessness today provides a context for the discussion. Many h...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.22 MB]
    4. Financing geriatric programs in community health centers.
      Personal Author:
      Yeatts, D E; Ray, S; List, N; Duggar, B;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):375-383
      Description:
      There are approximately 600 Community and Migrant Health Centers (C/MHCs) providing preventive and primary health care services principally to medically underserved rural and urban areas across the United States. The need to develop geriatric program...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.83 MB]
    5. The feasibility of collecting drug abuse data by telephone.
      Personal Author:
      Gfroerer, J C; Hughes, A L;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):384-393
      Description:
      An evaluation was made of the use of telephone survey methods to collect illicit drug use data. Using data from a national survey that collects data by personal interviews, marijuana and cocaine use prevalence rates among households with telephones a...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.68 MB]
    6. Differences in hypertension prevalence among U.S. black and white women of childbearing age.
      Personal Author:
      Geronimus, A T; Andersen, H F; Bound, J;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):393-399
      Description:
      Hypertension and its sequelae complicate pregnancy and can result in poor perinatal outcomes. Overall, U.S. blacks are more likely to be hypertensive than whites, but the degree to which this is true among women of childbearing age (including teenage...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.61 MB]
    7. Interpretative views on Hispanics' perinatal problems of low birth weight and prenatal care.
      Personal Author:
      Balcazar, H; Aoyama, C; Cai, X;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):420-426
      Description:
      From a public health perspective, there is a need to recognize that Hispanics, and in particular Mexican Americans, are a very heterogeneous group. They represent all shades of acculturation, education, income, and citizenship status. As this minorit...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.36 MB]
    8. Childhood injury prevention in a suburban Massachusetts population.
      Personal Author:
      Bass, J L; Mehta, K A; Ostrovsky, M;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):437-442
      Description:
      A controlled population-based study of a childhood injury prevention program in four suburban Massachusetts communities was able to demonstrate a 15.3 percent decrease in injury rates for children ages 0-5 years. A substantial improvement was seen in...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.85 MB]
    9. PROGRAMS, PRACTICES, PEOPLE
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):467-472
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.15 MB]
    10. Followup study of possible HIV seropositivity among abusers of parenteral drugs in 1971-72.
      Personal Author:
      Lange, W R; Ball, J C; Adler, W H; Brown, E; Pyle, R; Hoffman, W; Dax, E M;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):451-455
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1007.61 KB]
    11. Comparison of examination fees and availability of routine vision care by optometrists and ophthalmologists.
      Personal Author:
      Soroka, M
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):455-459
      Description:
      A national telephone survey of eye care practitioners shows that the average fee for routine eye examinations was less among optometrists than ophthalmologists. The average wait for the earliest appointment was 5 days for optometrists and 20 days for...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 961.25 KB]
    12. Designing an AIDS information campaign to reach intravenous drug users and sex partners.
      Personal Author:
      Perloff, R M; Pettey, G;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):460-463
      Description:
      Intravenous drug users are currently the second largest group to have developed the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the United States and Europe. Clearly, health communication plays an important role in the development of AIDS prevention progra...
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      Filetype[PDF - 747.33 KB]
    13. Quantifying the disease impact of alcohol with ARDI software.
      Personal Author:
      Shultz, James M.; Rice, Dorothy P.; Parker, David L.; Goodman, Richard A.; Stroh, George; Chalmers, Nancy;
      Conference Author:
      Prevention 90 (April 19-22, 1990 : , Atlanta, GA)
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):443-450
      Description:
      Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) Software has been developed for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to allow States to calculate mortality, years of potential life lost (YPLL), direct health-care costs, indirect morbidity and mortality costs,...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.35 MB]
    14. Public Health Rep ; v. 106, no. 4 : Masthead
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1991
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.04 MB]
    15. Public Health Rep ; v. 106, no. 4 : table of contents
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1991
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 450.01 KB]
    16. Resting pulse rate of children and young adults associated with blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors.
      Personal Author:
      Gillum, Richard F.
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):400-410
      Description:
      Few researchers have investigated the resting pulse rate of children and young adults as a risk factor or indicator for subsequent cardiovascular morbidity in a representative sample of the total population. Data from the first National Health and Nu...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.17 MB]
    17. A study guided by the Health Belief Model of the predictors of breast cancer screening of women ages 40 and older.
      Personal Author:
      Fulton, J P; Buechner, J S; Scott, H D; DeBuono, B A; Feldman, J P; Smith, R A; Kovenock, D;
      Published:
      1991 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4):410-420
      Description:
      In late 1987, a total of 852 Rhode Island women ages 40 and older were interviewed by telephone (78 percent response rate) to measure their use of breast cancer screening and to investigate potential predictors of use. Predictors included the women's...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.40 MB]
    18. Public Health Reports ; v. 106, no. 4, July-August 1991 : cover
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1991
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 106(4)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 558.58 KB]
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