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PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES
  • Published Date:
    1993 Jul-Aug
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 108(4):520-528
  • Language:
    English
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    1. Where and how adolescents obtain alcoholic beverages.
      Personal Author:
      Wagenaar, A C; Finnegan, J R; Wolfson, M; Anstine, P S; Williams, C L; Perry, C L;
      Published:
      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 ...
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    2. Risk factors for septicemia-associated mortality in older adults.
      Personal Author:
      Salive, M E; Wallace, R B; Ostfeld, A M; Satterfield, S; Havlik, R J;
      Published:
      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...
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    3. Local health departments implement a theory-based model to increase breast and cervical cancer screening.
      Personal Author:
      Suarez, L; Nichols, D C; Pulley, L; Brady, C A; McAlister, A;
      Published:
      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...
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    4. Traumatic occupational fatalities in South Carolina, 1989-90.
      Personal Author:
      Stone, P W
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):483-488
      Description:
      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...
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    5. Lung cancer rates in the Hispanic population of Connecticut, 1980-88.
      Personal Author:
      Polednak, A P
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):471-476
      Description:
      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...
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    6. Disease prevention through immunization: the beginning of health care reform.
      Personal Author:
      Robinson, C A; Bart, K J;
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):417-418
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      Filetype[PDF - 301.25 KB]
    7. Utilization of on-site primary care services by HIV-seropositive and seronegative drug users in a methadone maintenance program.
      Personal Author:
      Selwyn, P A; Budner, N S; Wasserman, W C; Arno, P S;
      Published:
      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...
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    8. Birth outcomes of Korean women in Hawaii.
      Personal Author:
      Mor, J M; Alexander, G R; Kieffer, E C; Baruffi, G;
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):500-505
      Description:
      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 gro...
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    9. Do anti-smoking media campaigns help smokers quit?
      Personal Author:
      Popham, W J; Potter, L D; Bal, D G; Johnson, M D; Duerr, J M; Quinn, V;
      Published:
      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 ...
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    10. Prevalence of aortic aneurysms in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, 1979-84.
      Personal Author:
      Lilienfeld, D E; Baxter, J; Sprafka, J M;
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):506-510
      Description:
      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...
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    11. NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS DATA LINE
      Published:
      Jul 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):517-518
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    12. Variability and consistency of rates of primary and repeat cesarean sections among hospitals in two states.
      Personal Author:
      Rock, S M
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):514-516
      Description:
      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...
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    13. Public Health Rep ; v. 108, no. 4 : Masthead
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4)
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.61 MB]
    14. Public Health Rep ; v. 108, no. 4 : table of contents
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4)
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      Filetype[PDF - 691.92 KB]
    15. Public Health Reports ; v. 108, no. 4, July-August, 1993 : cover
      Published:
      Jul-Aug 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108 (4)
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    16. The president's child immunization initiative--a summary of the problem and the response.
      Personal Author:
      Robinson, Chester A.; Sepe, Stephen J.; Lin, Kimi F. Y.;
      Published:
      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...
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    17. Stroke mortality and its socioeconomic, racial, and behavioral correlates in Florida.
      Personal Author:
      Siegel, Paul Z.; Deeb, Larry C.; Wolfe, Loretta E.; Wilcox, David; Marks, James S.;
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):454-458
      Description:
      Stroke mortality is associated both with being black and with having low socioeconomic status. However, it is uncertain to what extent that increased risk is related to rates of behavior-related risk factors, such as hypertension, cigarette smoking, ...
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    18. Self-reported frequency of serum cholesterol testing, awareness of test results, and laboratory cholesterol values in two South Carolina communities.
      Personal Author:
      Heath, Gregory W.; Vartiainen, Erkki; Wheeler, Francis C.;
      Published:
      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...
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    19. Evaluation of a two-dose measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination schedule in a cohort of college athletes.
      Personal Author:
      Coté, Timothy R.; Sivertson, Debra; Horan, John M.; Lindegren, Mary Lou; Dwyer, Diane M.;
      Published:
      1993 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(4):431-435
      Description:
      Despite high vaccination levels, measles outbreaks continue to occur among vaccinated adults. In response, new guidelines call for two doses of measles vaccine. To determine seroprevalence and response to vaccination in seronegative persons, we teste...
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    20. Evaluation of telephoned computer-generated reminders to improve immunization coverage at inner-city clinics.
      Personal Author:
      Stehr-Green, Paul A.; Dini, Eugene F.; Lindegren, Mary Lou; Patriarca, Peter A.;
      Published:
      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...
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