This study evaluated the risk of travelers to the Russian Far East developing acute gastrointestinal or respiratory symptoms. Passengers and crew on 1...
Achieving and maintaining high rates of screening mammography are major public health priorities. This report examines data from the 1990 National Hea...
To assess mortality attributed to misuse of psychoactive drugs in the U.S. from 1979 through 1988, the authors obtained from death certificates the an...
Ocular trauma is one of the most important preventable causes of visual impairment. The National Eye Trauma System was developed to provide optimal cl...
The Houston Diabetes Control Program is part of an effort by the State of Texas and approximately 30 other programs throughout the U.S. to ensure that...
Young adults residing in four States were enrolled in the period 1985-88 in a multicenter study of cardiovascular disease risk factors. In 1989, 2,729...
The authors analyzed the use of hospitals by patients with a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, using data from the National H...
Not keeping scheduled visits for medical care is a major health care issue. Little research has addressed how the interaction of demographic and biome...
The Multnomah County (OR) Health Department received a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to develop effective interventions and education to redu...
Hospital discharge data are a potentially useful information resource for documenting the epidemiology of nonfatal injuries. However, hospitals often ...
Questionnaires on smokeless tobacco use were completed by 781 sixth grade students in 15 schools at six locations in the United States. The students w...
Public debate about health care reform often focuses on the need for health insurance coverage, but in Latino communities many other barriers also inh...
The authors examined 21 major health data systems of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and concluded that data on Hispanics are ...
The development of an appropriate research agenda for Hispanics requires progress in three areas: (a) developing an appropriate research infrastructur...
The rapid growth and relative youth of the Latino population of the U.S., soon to become the largest ethnic-racial group in the country, presents nume...
The development of an appropriate research agenda for Hispanics requires progress in three areas: (a) developing an appropriate research infrastructur...