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PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES
  • Published Date:

    1993 Sep-Oct

  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 108(5):652-656
  • Language:
    English
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      Sep 1993
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):650-651
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      Aguirre-Molina, M; Ramirez, A; Ramirez, M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):559-564
      Description:
      The rapid growth and relative youth of the Latino population of the United States, soon to become the largest ethnic-racial group in the country, presents numerous opportunities and a special challenge to those concerned with the health and well-bein...
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      Ozonoff, V V; Tan-Torres, S; Barber, C W;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):633-636
      Description:
      Hospital discharge data are a potentially useful information resource for documenting the epidemiology of nonfatal injuries. However, hospitals often do not include E-codes that identify external causes of injury in discharge abstracts. One barrier h...
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      Baker, S B; Vallbona, C; Pavlik, V; Fasser, C E; Armbruster, M; McCray, R; Baker, R L;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):595-605
      Description:
      The Houston Diabetes Control Program is part of an effort by the State of Texas and approximately 30 other programs throughout the United States to ensure that persons with diabetes-related complications receive ongoing state-of-the-art preventive ca...
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      Parver, L M; Dannenberg, A L; Blacklow, B; Fowler, C J; Brechner, R J; Tielsch, J M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):625-632
      Description:
      Ocular trauma is one of the most important preventable causes of visual impairment. The National Eye Trauma System was developed to provide optimal clinical care for severe ocular injuries, to foster research on eye injury, and to increase awareness ...
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      Published Date:
      Sep-Oct 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108 (5)
      Description:
      Special section: Surgeon General's National Workshop: Implementation Stategies for Improving Hispanic-Latino Health.
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      Sep-Oct 1993
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5)
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      Personal Author:
      Novello, A C; Soto-Torres, L E;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):529-533
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      Whelan, V; McBride, D; Colby, R;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):643-645
      Description:
      The Multnomah County (OR) Health Department received a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to develop effective interventions and education to reduce the spread among injecting drug users of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. One y...
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      Personal Author:
      Rakowski, W; Rimer, B K; Bryant, S A;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):605-624
      Description:
      Achieving and maintaining high rates of screening mammography are major public health priorities. This report examines data from the 1990 National Health Interview Survey of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention on the utilization of mammography am...
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      Personal Author:
      Catlett, A T; Thompson, R J; Johndrow, D A; Boshkoff, M R;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):589-594
      Description:
      Not keeping scheduled visits for medical care is a major health care issue. Little research has addressed how the interaction of demographic and biomedical parameters with psychosocial processes has an impact on appointment keeping. Typical factors a...
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      Personal Author:
      Beller, M; Schloss, M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):645-649
      Description:
      This study evaluated the risk of travelers to the Russian Far East developing acute gastrointestinal or respiratory symptoms. Passengers and crew on 10 commercial airline flights from the Russian Far East to the United States were asked to complete a...
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      Published Date:
      Sep-Oct 1993
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5)
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      Personal Author:
      Melnick, S L; Jeffery, R W; Burke, G L; Gilbertson, D T; Perkins, L L; Sidney, S; McCreath, H E; Wagenknecht, L E; Hulley, S B;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):582-588
      Description:
      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 members of the group were given a self-administered questionnaire that included questions on change...
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      Backinger, C L; Bruerd, B; Kinney, M B; Szpunar, S M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):637-642
      Description:
      Questionnaires on smokeless tobacco use were completed by 781 sixth grade students in 15 schools at six locations in the United States. The students were both American Indian-Alaska Native and non-American Indian-Alaska Native. The Indian and Alaska ...
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      Wysowski, D K; Schober, S E; Wise, R P; Kopstein, A;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):565-570
      Description:
      To assess mortality attributed to misuse of psychoactive drugs in the United States from 1979 through 1988, the authors obtained from death certificates the annual number of, and age-, sex-, and race-specific data for, deaths in which psychoactive dr...
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      Delgado, J L; Estrada, L;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):540-545
      Description:
      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 not included in several Departmental national health data collection systems, and that even when col...
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      Valdez, R B; Giachello, A; Rodriguez-Trias, H; Gomez, P; de la Rocha, C;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):534-539
      Description:
      Public debate about health care reform often focuses on the need for health insurance coverage, but in Latino communities many other barriers also inhibit access to medical care. In addition, basic public health services often go underfunded or ignor...
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      Treviño, F M; Sumaya, C; Miranda, M; Martinez, L; Saldaña, J M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
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      Public Health Rep. 108(5):551-558
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      Kozak, L J; McCarthy, E; Moien, M;
      Published Date:
      1993 Sep-Oct
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 108(5):571-581
      Description:
      The authors analyzed the use of hospitals by patients with a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, using data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey. In the period 1984-90, the rates of both discharges and days of care for H...
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