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NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS DATA LINE
  • Published Date:
    Nov 1992
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 107(6):734-735
  • Language:
    English
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    1. Breast cancer beliefs of women participating in a television-promoted mammography screening project.
      Personal Author:
      Fuller, S M; McDermott, R J; Roetzheim, R G; Marty, P J;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):682-690
      Description:
      A survey of breast cancer and breast cancer screening beliefs was mailed to a random sample of 1,000 women who contacted a telephone bank in response to a television-promoted, reduced-cost mammography project. Beliefs and demographics of women in the...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.73 MB]
    2. AIDS education for health care professionals in an organizational or systems context.
      Personal Author:
      Dworkin, J
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):668-674
      Description:
      Traditionally, health education for practicing health professionals, as well as members of the public, focuses on the individual and relies on changing personal behavior. However, health care for persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.46 MB]
    3. Needle sharing and participation in the Amsterdam Syringe Exchange program among HIV-seronegative injecting drug users.
      Personal Author:
      Hartgers, C; van Ameijden, E J; van den Hoek, J A; Coutinho, R A;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):675-681
      Description:
      To enhance the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infection, factors related to regular participation in the Amsterdam Syringe Exchange and the borrowing of syringes were studied in 131 HIV-seronegative injecting drug users in a 1989-90 surve...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.24 MB]
    4. Estimating the prevalence of mental disorders in U.S. adults from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey.
      Personal Author:
      Bourdon, K H; Rae, D S; Locke, B Z; Narrow, W E; Regier, D A;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):663-668
      Description:
      The National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey is a comprehensive, community-based survey of mental disorders and use of services by adults, ages 18 and older. Diagnoses are based on the criteria in the "Diagnostic and St...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.11 MB]
    5. The FPbase microcomputer system for managing community health screening and intervention data bases.
      Personal Author:
      Assaf, A R; Banspach, S W; Lasater, T M; Ramsey, J; Tidwell, R J; Carleton, R A;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):695-700
      Description:
      Health promotion and intervention projects at State and community levels need computerized data bases to assist in making policy decisions and in operating the projects. Computer data base systems are used in entering, storing, retrieving, and analyz...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.16 MB]
    6. Seasonal variation in adolescent conceptions, induced abortions, and late initiation of prenatal care.
      Personal Author:
      Petersen, D J; Alexander, G R;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):701-706
      Description:
      The monthly distribution of conceptions among adolescents and the proportion of adolescent pregnancies that are voluntarily terminated by induced abortion by month of conception are the objects of this study. Additionally, seasonal variations in the ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1003.61 KB]
    7. Sampler of findings from the 1986 national mortality followback survey on risk factors, disability, and health care.
      Personal Author:
      Seeman, I
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):707-712
      Description:
      The National Center for Health Statistics conducted a mortality followback survey of a national probability sample drawn from all deaths of U.S. adults in 1986 and an oversampling of deaths of persons with selected characteristics. Responses were rec...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.23 MB]
    8. Development and supermarket field testing of videotaped nutrition messages for cancer risk reduction.
      Personal Author:
      Cotugna, N; Vickery, C E;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):691-694
      Description:
      This article describes the development and field testing of five 1-minute videotaped nutrition public service announcements focusing on the role of nutrition in reducing cancer risks. Topics include dietary fat, vitamin A, vitamin C, cruciferous vege...
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      Filetype[PDF - 678.69 KB]
    9. Social and cultural factors in the successful control of tuberculosis.
      Personal Author:
      Rubel, A J; Garro, L C;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):626-636
      Description:
      The burden of tuberculosis on the public health is staggering. Worldwide, annual incidence of new cases is estimated to be about 8 million. Almost 3 million deaths occur yearly. Early case identification and adherence to treatment regimens are the re...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.18 MB]
    10. Czechoslovakia's changing health care system.
      Personal Author:
      Raffel, M W; Raffel, N K;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):636-643
      Description:
      Before World War II, Czechoslovakia was among the most developed European countries with an excellent health care system. After the Communist coup d'etat in 1948, the country was forced to adapt its existing health care system to the Soviet model. It...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.36 MB]
    11. Area-level predictors of use of prenatal care in diverse populations.
      Personal Author:
      Kieffer, E; Alexander, G R; Mor, J;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):653-658
      Description:
      Patterns and predictors of the use of prenatal care in Hawaii were examined by census tract, taking into account summary measures of socioeconomic status, environmental conditions, and aggregated indicators of pregnancy-related risk characteristics o...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.17 MB]
    12. Weighing costs and benefits of adequate prenatal care for 12,023 births in Missouri's Medicaid program, 1988.
      Personal Author:
      Schramm, W F
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):647-652
      Description:
      Numerous studies have shown that the receipt of adequate prenatal care is associated with improvements in pregnancy outcome, particularly a reduction in the risk of low birth weight. Since medical costs for these low birth weight infants are several ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.17 MB]
    13. Public Health Rep
      Published:
      Nov-Dec 1992
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    14. PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):736-744
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.54 MB]
    15. Vitamin supplement use and its correlates among elderly Japanese men residing on Oahu, HI.
      Personal Author:
      Kato, I; Nomura, A M; Stemmermann, G N; Chyou, P H;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):712-717
      Description:
      Use of vitamin supplements and the association with personal characteristics were investigated among 4,654 American men of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii. A total of 58 percent of the subjects who were ages 68 to 90 took vitamin supplements. Among suppl...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.17 MB]
    16. Group counseling at STD clinics to promote use of condoms.
      Personal Author:
      Cohen, D A; MacKinnon, D P; Dent, C; Mason, H R; Sullivan, E;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):727-731
      Description:
      An intervention was developed to promote safer sex and condom use among patients seeking treatment for sexually transmitted disease (STD) at a public health STD clinic in Los Angeles, CA. The intervention consisted of a short group discussion on cond...
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    17. Mothers' motivations to participate in a pregnancy health survey.
      Personal Author:
      Schaffer, D; Shaw, G M;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):731-733
      Description:
      An important question in interpreting epidemiologic data is why some persons agree to participate in a health survey while others do not. Information about why people agree to interview or answer a questionnaire could help researchers to devise proce...
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      Filetype[PDF - 503.22 KB]
    18. An evaluation of the Vermont worksite smoking law.
      Personal Author:
      Paulozzi, L J; Spengler, R F; Gower, M A;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):724-726
      Description:
      In view of the fact that the impact of statewide smoking laws on private worksite policies and the smoking behavior of employees has not been evaluated, two cross-sectional surveys were performed in Vermont to measure compliance with such a law: a ra...
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      Filetype[PDF - 520.40 KB]
    19. Environment, behavior, and injuries.
      Personal Author:
      Robertson, L S
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):744-745
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      Filetype[PDF - 373.63 KB]
    20. Survey of graduates of the Epidemic Intelligence Service as an approach to enhancing ethnic diversity among the nation's epidemiologists.
      Personal Author:
      Thacker, Stephen B.; Mayberry, Robert M.; Herndon, Joy L.; Warren, Rueben C.;
      Published:
      1992 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 107(6):718-723
      Description:
      A survey was conducted to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of epidemiologists in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Program of the Centers for Disease Control. The authors compared minority graduates of the program and nonminorit...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.29 MB]
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