Lifestyle risk factors play a major role in the etiology of premature mortality, morbidity, and disability in the United States. Numerous professional groups as well as the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service have recommended that increased attention be devoted to training medical students and physicians to improve their knowledge and skills in health promotion and disease prevention. Such training is critical for attaining many of the "Healthy People 2000" objectives. For a variety of reasons, however, most medical schools have had difficulty in successfully integrating preventive medicine into their clinical curriculums. This article describes the critical elements that allowed the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to accomplish this goal through its fourth year clinical preventive medicine course. The strategies employed in this course may serve as a model for other institutions to achieve the integration of preventive medicine into their clinical curriculums.
There is a potential for nonresponse bias in most population studies using health examinations. This is true of the Mexican American portion of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES), conducted by the National Center for Health...
Liller, K D; Kent, E B; Arcari, C; McDermott, R J;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):346-353
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The authors obtained data from 700 households in Hillsborough County, FL, in a telephone random survey to determine risk factors for incidents of drowning and near-drowning among children in the county. The survey was conducted from August through De...
Mortality patterns prevalent among American Indian youth have not been well documented. This investigation reports on mortality patterns among the Seneca Nation of Indians from January 1, 1955, through December 31, 1989. The study cohort consisted of...
Salive, M E; Satterfield, S; Ostfeld, A M; Wallace, R B; Havlik, R J;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):314-322
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The role of functional and cognitive limitations in the risk of pneumonia-related mortality in older adults was examined. As part of a cohort study in 3 communities (East Boston, MA; New Haven, CT; and Iowa and Washington Counties, IA), 6,234 women a...
Birkhead, G S; Galvin, V G; Meehan, P J; O'Carroll, P W; Mercy, J A;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):323-331
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The authors conducted one of the first active, population-based public health surveillance systems for detecting suicide attempts in the United States. Surveillance was conducted in all four hospital emergency departments serving a county suburban to...
The Los Angeles civil unrest in April 1992 stunned the nation. The days of violence resulted in 53 deaths, 2,325 reported injuries, more than 600 buildings completely destroyed by fire, and approximately $735 million in total damages. The purpose of ...
Lacey, L P; Manfredi, C; Balch, G; Warnecke, R B; Allen, K; Edwards, C;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):387-394
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To accomplish significant reductions in smoking by the year 2000, special populations with relatively low rates of smoking cessation must be reached and helped to quit smoking. These populations are most often groups in which traditional approaches t...
Kristal, A R; White, E; Davis, J R; Corycell, G; Raghunathan, T; Kinne, S; Lin, T K;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):372-379
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Public health researchers frequently rely on random-digit dialing (RDD) telephone surveys in monitoring trends in health behavior and evaluating health promotion interventions. RDD response rates have declined during the past decade, and cost-effecti...
Communication theories and research data were used to design cross-cultural health education messages. A University of California Los Angeles-Universidad Autonoma in Tijuana, Mexico, research team used the methods of ethnographic and survey research ...
Molberg, Peter J.; Hopkins, Richard S.; Paulson, John; Gunn, Robert A.;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):340-346
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To identify risk factors predicting the involvement of boat operators in incidents resulting in at least one fatality, the authors obtained data from a mail survey of registered boat owners in the State of Ohio and from the Boating Accident Report (B...
In 1988 and again in 1990, the National Center for Health Statistics conducted a survey of the AIDS related knowledge and beliefs of Hispanic and non-Hispanic adults in the United States. A survey of Los Angeles Hispanic women was conducted in 1990, ...
Arnow, Paul M.; Chou, Teresa; Shapiro, Robert; Sussman, Elliot J.; Chamberland, Mary;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):273-278
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The spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a Florida dentist with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) to several of his patients has generated considerable concern about the risk of HIV transmission during dental treatment. According...
Norman, S A; Weinberg, G B; Krampe, B R; Finnegan, E T;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):395-401
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The use of local data on cancer incidence and mortality and on risk-related behaviors to help communities set priorities and guide program planning is an important facet of the National Cancer Institute's Program, "Data-Based Intervention Research fo...
Valdiserri, Ronald O.; Jones, T. Stephen; West, Gary R.; Campbell, Carl H.; Thompson, P. Imani;
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1993 May-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 108(3):294-298
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In 1990, nearly 1.5 million human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody tests were performed at publicly funded sites. Eight percent of those tests were performed for self-identified illegal injecting drug users (IDU). The authors examined data from ...
Kinder, G; Cashman, S B; Seifer, S D; Inouye, A; Hagopian, A;
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2000 Mar-Jun
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Public Health Rep. 115(2-3):266-270
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To meet the demands of the evolving health care system, health professionals need skills that will allow them to anticipate and respond to the broader social determinants of health. To ensure that these skills are learned during their professional ed...
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
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April 2015
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This document provides guidance and resources for implementing recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease. After providing general information on CHWs in the United States, thi...
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.), Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
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April 2015
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Second edition.This document provides guidance and resources for imple- menting recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based e orts to prevent chronic disease. After providing general information on CHWs in the Un...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development.. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (U.S.).
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August 21, 2013
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On August 21, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS) and the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) within CDC’s Center for Surv...