Since the end of the Korean War, immigration of Koreans to the United States has increased rapidly. In 1990, 11.6 percent of all Asians in the United States were of Korean ethnicity, and it is projected that Koreans will outnumber all other Asian groups, except Filipinos, in the United States by the year 2030. Despite the growing size of this population, very little is known about their health status. This study, using 1979-89 Hawaii vital record data, investigates the relationship between maternal sociodemographic characteristics, prenatal care utilization factors, and birth outcomes among Koreans as compared with Caucasians. The ethnic term "Caucasian" is used in Hawaii's vital records and is synonymous with non-Hispanic whites. Korean mothers were more likely to be older and have lower educational attainment, and less likely to be adolescent, single, or to have received adequate prenatal care than Caucasian mothers. More than 80 percent of the Korean mothers were foreign born. Significantly higher risks for very preterm delivery (less than 33 weeks) and very low birth weight births were observed for Koreans as compared with Caucasians. Nativity had no effect on birth outcome in this population. The results of this study suggest that prevention of preterm birth is an important focus for improving pregnancy outcomes in this growing ethnic group.
To identify lung cancer patients of Hispanic ethnicity, surnames in the Connecticut Tumor Registry were matched with the 1980 Spanish surname list of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Also death certificates for women with lung cancer in the registry we...
Suarez, L; Nichols, D C; Pulley, L; Brady, C A; McAlister, A;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):477-482
Description:
Su Vida, Su Salud/Your Life, Your Health is a community program to increase participation in breast and cervical cancer screening. This program illustrates the diffusion of an innovative outreach strategy from a research environment to two local heal...
Death certificates for South Carolina for 1989 and 1990 were examined to identify deaths resulting from injury incurred in the workplace. There were 277 deaths in that category in the 2-year period, an average yearly rate for traumatic occupational f...
Popham, W J; Potter, L D; Bal, D G; Johnson, M D; Duerr, J M; Quinn, V;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):510-513
Description:
As part of an evaluation of the 1990-91 anti-tobacco media campaign carried out by the California Department of Health Services, a study was conducted among 417 regular smokers who had quit during the period of the media campaign. In brief telephone ...
The discharge summaries for Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area residents hospitalized during 1979-84 were reviewed for diagnoses of aortic aneurysms. Annual age-specific and age-adjusted sex-specific hospital discharge diagnosis rates were calcul...
Hospitals in New York and Illinois have wide variations in their primary and repeat cesarean section rates. A number of factors account for these differences. To investigate whether hospitals with higher or lower rates tend to continue these patterns...
Jackson, Benita M.; Payton, Tony; Horst, George; Halpin, Thomas J.; Mortensen, B. Kim;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):436-439
Description:
From April 1990 to April 1991, 278 cases of rubella were reported to the Ohio Department of Health. Of these, 276 (99 percent) were among the Amish of northeastern Ohio. The outbreak involved eight counties in an area that contains large settlements ...
Robinson, Chester A.; Sepe, Stephen J.; Lin, Kimi F. Y.;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):419-425
Description:
After only 24 days in office, President Bill Clinton announced a comprehensive childhood immunization initiative designed to assure that all children in the United States lead healthier lives by receiving age-appropriate immunizations against prevent...
Stehr-Green, Paul A.; Dini, Eugene F.; Lindegren, Mary Lou; Patriarca, Peter A.;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):426-430
Description:
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of computer-generated telephoned reminders used to raise the rates of on-time immunization among preschool-age children in two public clinics in Atlanta, GA. The overall effect of the intervention on immunizati...
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of 128 homeless persons investigated by the Fulton County, GA, Medical Examiner's Office during the period 1988-90 and the demographic characteristics of the deceased were studied and analyzed. Emphasis was pl...
Heath, Gregory W.; Vartiainen, Erkki; Wheeler, Francis C.;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):465-470
Description:
Self-reported frequency of cholesterol testing and awareness of test results were collected from 5,246 adults 18 years and older in two semirural communities in South Carolina. Serum cholesterol was also measured for about 60 percent of this group. M...
Selwyn, P A; Budner, N S; Wasserman, W C; Arno, P S;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):492-500
Description:
The feasibility of on-site primary care services and their use by human immunodeficiency virus HIV-seropositive and seronegative injecting drug users within an outpatient methadone maintenance program are examined. A 16-month prospective study was co...
Wagenaar, A C; Finnegan, J R; Wolfson, M; Anstine, P S; Williams, C L; Perry, C L;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):459-464
Description:
Patterns of acquisition of alcoholic beverages by underage youth were studied, using focus group methods with a sample of midwestern youth. Results showed that the alcohol initially used by those in their early teens is obtained from parents' stocks ...
Salive, M E; Wallace, R B; Ostfeld, A M; Satterfield, S; Havlik, R J;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):447-453
Description:
Septicemia is the 10th leading cause of death among older adults in the United States; its mortality rate has steadily increased over the past decades. Little is known about factors which predispose to septicemia mortality in the elderly. The authors...
Buck, G M; Mahoney, M C; Michalek, A M; Powell, E J; Shelton, J A;
Published Date:
1992 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 107(5):569-575
Description:
The purpose of this study was to describe the neonatal characteristics of Native American (Indian) infants and the antenatal characteristics of their mothers as compared with white, black, and other race infants. The study population comprised 979,44...
Alexander, G R; Tompkins, M E; Altekruse, J M; Hornung, C A;
Published Date:
1985 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 100(5):539-547
Description:
Utilizing South Carolina live birth-infant death cohort files for the period 1975-80, this study examines the bivariate distribution of birth weight-gestational age (BW-GA), intrauterine growth curves, and BW-GA specific neonatal mortality rates (NMR...
Friede, Andrew; Baldwin, Wendy; Rhodes, Philip H.; Buehler, James W.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.; Hogue, Carol J. R.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 102(2):192-199
Description:
In 1980, there were 562,330 babies born in the United States to teenage mothers (19 years of age or younger). The offspring of teenage mothers have long been known to be at increased risk of infant mortality, largely because of their high prevalence ...
Strobino, D M; Kim, Y J; Crawley, B E; Chase, G A; Salim, J H;
Published Date:
1985 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 100(4):417-427
Description:
Linked birth and death records provided the population for an investigation of declines in nonwhite and white neonatal mortality rates (NMR) in Mississippi between 1975 and 1980. The effect of changes in the characteristics of women giving birth and ...
The authors performed a prenatal care needs assessment for Fresno County, CA, using data from a sample of 11,878 birth certificates for the county for 1989. Birth records, patterns of prenatal care utilization, and low birth weight outcomes in the co...
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