To determine whether New York State's high ischemic heart disease mortality rate was due primarily to an urban effect, rates for regions in the State were compared with each other and with national data. New York State mortality rates for the period 1980-87 were highest for New York City (344.5 per 100,000 residents), followed by upstate urban and rural areas (267.1-285.1), and New York City suburbs (272.5). However, the overall 1986 age-adjusted rate for the New York State region with the lowest mortality rate (265.7) exceeded that of 42 States. New York State's number one ischemic heart disease mortality ranking reflects the need for statewide intervention programs, because even regions with relatively low mortality rates are high when they are compared with national rates.
A study was conducted to examine the efficacy of a church-based model of social influence in improving access to and participation of underserved mino...
The Forsyth County Cervical Cancer Prevention Project was a 5-year community-based health education program funded by the National Cancer Institute. T...
Community involvement in local firearms policy is advocated to be an important component of efforts to curtail violence. This report describes the fir...
The authors used vital statistics and population data for DeKalb County, GA, in an evaluation of the accuracy of the Consensus Health Status Indicator...
Hispanic migrant agricultural workers' exposure to pesticides and other agrichemicals places them at increased risk for a variety of acute and chronic...
Few researchers have examined the problem of comparing the performances of local health departments. A contributing factor is the lack of a uniform me...
Each year, it is estimated that from 350,000 to 739,000 U.S. infants are exposed in utero to one or more illicit drugs. To estimate the prevalence of ...
One of the most difficult forms of public health practice to characterize involves governmental public health agencies, especially at the local level....
Little is known of the extent to which helper networks of frail older persons change over time and what factors are associated with change. Few nation...
The goal of this study was to identify areas in which an influenza immunization campaign for seniors, sponsored by a health maintenance organization (...
Men attending four Seattle gay bars were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire including measures of sexual behavior, perceptions of pee...
The research literature on AIDS prevention efforts contains many reports on the impact of intervention sessions. Little information is available, howe...
In this study, sexual risk behavior of 104 incarcerated female drug users is examined. Findings demonstrate that incarcerated women who use drugs are ...
BackgroundCardiac injury is a known potential complication of influenza infection. Because U.S. veterans cared for at the U.S. Department of Veterans ...
PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:Psychological health encompasses a constellation of negative and positive factors – i.e., psychosocial stress, depression, anx...
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