This study investigated the self-reported awareness of the presence of product warning messages and signs among random samples of Hispanics in San Francisco surveyed in 1990 and in 1991. The messages that were tested related to cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and other consumer products. A random sample of 1,204 Hispanics (43.5 percent males) were interviewed by telephone in 1990. The corresponding figure for the second survey in 1991 was 1,569 Hispanics (41.1 percent males). In general, respondents reported low levels of awareness of the presence of product warning messages and signs. The exception was warning messages on cigarette packets which approximately 70 percent of the respondents reported having seen within the 12 months before the survey. There was an increase from 1990 to 1991 in the reported awareness of warning messages for wine, beer, and cigarettes. Smokers and drinkers of alcoholic beverages reported the highest levels of awareness of the relevant warning messages and signs. Length of exposure to warning messages and multiplicity of sources (for example, advertisements and products) seem to produce greater levels of awareness of the presence of product warning messages. Less acculturated, Spanish-speaking Hispanics are less likely to report being aware of the warnings, particularly those that appear only in English (for example, alcoholic beverages).
Bostelman, S; Callan, M; Rolincik, L C; Gantt, M; Herink, M; King, J; Massey, M K; Morehouse, D; Sopata, T; Turner, J;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):153-157
Description:
Rehospitalization of mentally ill persons has been associated mainly with two major factors, noncompliance with the prescribed course of medication and noncompliance with planned aftercare. The authors developed and pilot tested a community health pr...
McCusker, J; Willis, G; McDonald, M; Lewis, B F; Sereti, S M; Feldman, Z T;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):212-218
Description:
The outcomes of counseling and testing programs related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and risk of infection among injection drug users (IDUs) are not well known or understood. A counseling and testing outcome of potential public hea...
Palfrey, J S; Haynie, M; Porter, S; Fenton, T; Cooperman-Vincent, P; Shaw, D; Johnson, B; Bierle, T; Walker, D K;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):226-233
Description:
In 1987 and 1990 in Massachusetts, surveys were conducted to determine the size, pattern of distribution, and trends in the population of children assisted by medical technology. The authors obtained an unduplicated count of all Massachusetts childre...
Graduates of MEDEX Northwest, the physician assistant training program at the University of Washington, were surveyed to describe differences between physician assistants practicing in rural settings and those practicing in urban settings. Difference...
The question of identifying and treating childhood illness confronts all new parents. Misconceptions often lead parents to manage illnesses in their young children inappropriately through overly aggressive treatment or insufficient attention. This re...
Teenagers are a crucial target group for interventions concerning acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Experimenting with their burgeoning sexuality and increased ability to obtain drugs, they are prime ca...
Increasingly, public health interventions are dependent on effective health communications. There are, however, few data examining the relationship and interactions between local public health officers and representatives of the media in the literatu...
Frank mental disorders, such as depression and panic disorder, are prevalent in primary care; they cause people substantial suffering and interfere with daily functioning. Even subthreshold or "subsyndromal" conditions, with fewer symptoms than neces...
Bicycle helmet use in the United States has remained low despite clear demonstration of its beneficial effect on reducing the incidence of serious head injury. Several interventions have been reported, with variable results and costs. Much of the rec...
The American public saved more than $39 billion (1990 dollars) in dental expenditures from 1979 through 1989 in contrast to the substantial increases in expenditures in other sectors of the U.S. health care system that have pushed the system to the b...
Violence is devastating the lives of children in America's major cities. The problem of violence is particularly acute among disadvantaged young urban males. This program focuses on violence prevention in school-age boys using creative educational te...
The purpose of the study is to determine the educational needs of public health officials concerning their knowledge, attitude, beliefs, and practices with specific reference to ionizing radiation. The public health directors or designates, working i...
Onorato, Ida M.; Gwinn, Marta; Dondero, Timothy J.;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):204-211
Description:
The CDC Family of Surveys is a national serologic surveillance system set up to characterize the extent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States. The now Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and participating S...
Sugarman, Jonathan R.; Brenneman, George; LaRoque, William; Warren, Charles W.; Goldberg, Howard I.;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):243-250
Description:
Although more than two-thirds of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI) live outside reservations and Tribal lands, few data sets describe social and maternal-child health risk factors among urban AI. The Indian Health Service sponsored a special e...
Thacker, Stephen B.; Koplan, Jeffrey P.; Taylor, William R.; Hinman, Alan R.; Katz, Martha F.; Roper, William L.;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):187-194
Description:
The measure of the effectiveness of health promotion and disease prevention activities is the impact of prevention policies, programs, and practices on public health and clinical medicine. Assessing prevention effectiveness involves continuing quanti...
AgĂ³cs, Mary M.; Trent, Roger B.; Russell, Deborah M.;
Published Date:
1994 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(2):290-295
Description:
Statewide surveillance in California determined that the highest drowning rate from 1980 through 1989 was for the rural, desert county of Imperial (21.9 drownings per 100,000 population). To identify activities associated with drowning in this county...
Knowing the reasons some physicians do not adhere to the disease prevention and treatment recommendations of expert committees can assist in the development of future recommendations more likely to be adopted by physicians. The authors describe the a...
Because of the absence of culturally appropriate self-help smoking cessation materials for Latinos, a new Spanish language cessation guide, "Guia para Dejar de Fumar," was developed and evaluated. It was distributed as part of a community-wide interv...
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 ...
Toomey, T L; Wagenaar, A C; Kilian, G; Fitch, O; Rothstein, C; Fletcher, L;
Published Date:
1999 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 114(4):337-342
Description:
Many establishments serve alcoholic beverages to obviously intoxicated patrons despite laws against such sales. To guide the development of interventions to reduce these illegal alcohol sales, this study used actors feigning intoxication to determine...
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...
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.). United States, Dept. of Health and Human Services.. United States, Public Health Service..
Published Date:
November 1988
Series:
Public use data tape documentation ; tape number 6533, version 1
Tape ; # HEHANES. DU653301
Description:
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on the health status of Americans. The results of surveys, analyses, and studies are made known primarily through publications and the release of computer data...
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