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.
Holman, S; Sorin, M D; Crossette, J; LaChance-McCullough, M L;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):521-529
Description:
The New York State Department of Health began its Obstetrical HIV Counseling/Testing/Care Initiative in 1989. The objective of the initiative was to expand the availability of and access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection counseling and ...
The authors describe a 3-year effort by a public health care system in a large metropolitan area to obtain Federal funds for treating patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). During that process, program planners moved incrementally f...
The goal of this study was to identify areas in which an influenza immunization campaign for seniors, sponsored by a health maintenance organization (HMO), could be improved. This study was conducted at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (GHC), ...
Men attending four Seattle gay bars were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire including measures of sexual behavior, perceptions of peer norms in the area of sexual safety, personal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk estimate, and...
Taylor, V M; Taplin, S H; Urban, N; Mahloch, J; Majer, K A;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):491-499
Description:
The analysis, mobilization, and involvement of medical communities in two counties targeted for intervention by the Washington State Community Breast Cancer Screening Project is described. Principles of community organization were applied to the heal...
Schilling, R; el-Bassel, N; Ivanoff, A; Gilbert, L; Su, K H; Safyer, S M;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):539-547
Description:
In this study, sexual risk behavior of 104 incarcerated female drug users is examined. Findings demonstrate that incarcerated women who use drugs are at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection because of their behavior prior to arr...
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 national estimates of the scope of change exist to aid policy planners. This study provides national estim...
Lantz, Paula M.; Dupuis, Laurence; Reding, Douglas; Krauska, Michelle; Lappe, Karen;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):512-520
Description:
Hispanic migrant agricultural workers' exposure to pesticides and other agrichemicals places them at increased risk for a variety of acute and chronic conditions, including cancer. As a socioeconomically disadvantaged group, migrant workers also face...
Turnock, Bernard J.; Handler, Arden; Dyal, William W.; Christenson, Gregory; Vaughn, Edward H.; Rowitz, Louis; Munson, Judith W.; Balderson, Thomas, R.; Richards, Thomas B.;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):478-484
Description:
One of the most difficult forms of public health practice to characterize involves governmental public health agencies, especially at the local level. A lack of consensus within the public health community as to the purpose and content of organizatio...
Callahan, Callahan M.; Rivara, Frederock P.; Koepsell, Thomas D.;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):472-477
Description:
Community involvement in local firearms policy is advocated to be an important component of efforts to curtail violence. This report describes the first evaluation of one such effort, a gun buy-back program conducted in Seattle, WA, during the fall o...
The authors used vital statistics and population data for DeKalb County, GA, in an evaluation of the accuracy of the Consensus Health Status Indicator for assessing adolescent pregnancies and births. The indicator used was the number of births to fem...
Pegues, David A.; Engelgau, Michael M.; Woernle, Charles H.;
Published Date:
1994 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 109(4):530-538
Description:
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 and risk factors for illicit drug use by women of childbearing age in Alabama, during 2 months in 19...
BackgroundCardiac injury is a known potential complication of influenza infection. Because U.S. veterans cared for at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are older and have more cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors than the general U.S. popu...
Robbins, Cheryl L.; Hutchings, Yalonda; Dietz, Patricia M.; Kuklina, Elena V.; Callaghan, William M.;
Published Date:
September 18 2013
Source:
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014; 210(4):285-297
Description:
A history of preterm birth (PTB) may be an important lifetime risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. We identified all peer-reviewed journal articles that met study criteria (English language, human studies, female, and adults ≥19 y...