The Public Health Service's Expert Panel on the Content of Prenatal Care Report in 1989 provided detailed guidelines for the components of each prenat...
This paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in south central Los Angeles in August 1992 among women in the Special Supplemental Food Progra...
Two of the best ways to improve the quality of childhood nutrition are (a) more collaboration at the national, State, and local levels and (b) adoptio...
The chasm between the supply and demand of donated organs and tissues continues to grow despite widespread public awareness of transplantation and num...
A study of physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and certified nurse midwifery programs was undertaken to identify and assess the effectiveness of ...
The Midwest flood disaster of 1993 ravaged communities across a 9-State area. Homes were destroyed, roads closed, and services disrupted. Economic cos...
Includes announcement: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Issues Plan to Address Emerging Infectious Diseases" [National Center for Infec...
Starling national statistics indicate that New Haven, CT, is the seventh poorest city of its size, in terms of per capita income, in the U.S.. In 1989...
In a survey of 2,548 adolescents, 11.5 percent reported ever having had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody test. Those who had been teste...
Current studies are attempting to develop a national surveillance system to measure the extent that populations are served by local departments carryi...
The authors assessed drug susceptibility patterns among tuberculosis patients reported to the New York City Department of Health in the first quarters...
President Clinton submitted the Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Initiative Act to Congress in April 1993. The objective of the legislation is to ...
The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether individual self-reports of perceived ability to use a condom correctly correlated with the ac...
Objective 8.14 of the Year 2000 National Health Objectives calls for 90 percent of the population to be served by a local health department effectivel...
High rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among jail and prison inmates suggest that HIV prevention efforts should focus on incarcera...
In public health research and practice, quality of life is increasingly acknowledged as a valid and appropriate indicator of service need and interven...
BackgroundEvidence supports the safety of the recommended childhood immunization schedule as a whole. However, additional research is warranted as par...
Background.Parent-reported influenza vaccination history may be valuable clinically and in influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) studies. Few studies h...
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