The early referral of HIV-exposed children and their mothers to coordinated medical and social services has become increasingly important. In July 1989, the Missouri Department of Health initiated the Service Coordination Program to provide individualized referral (case management) for Missouri residents who were reported to have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HIV infection. The purpose of the Service Coordination Program is to assist persons in accessing medical and social services. The authors describe the characteristics of the 36 children (18 enrolled in the Service Coordination Program, and 18 not enrolled) reported to the Missouri Department of Health through September 1992. Although more detailed evaluations are necessary, preliminary data suggest that opportunities for early intervention may be facilitated by the Service Coordination Program if the child's HIV status is recognized early.
Raising fees is one of the primary means that State Medicaid Programs employ to maintain provider participation. While a number of studies have sought to quantify the extent to which this policy retains or attracts providers, few have looked at the i...
Numerous children of migrant and seasonal farm workers live in rural areas of our country. The lifestyles and living conditions of farm workers place the children of these families at high risk for many health problems. However, few studies have focu...
Previous studies have suggested using school-based surveillance to monitor epidemic influenza-like illness in a community. Since the late 1970s, no studies have sought to evaluate this public health measure. The Boulder County Health Department devel...
Rafferty, A P; Thrush, J C; Smith, P K; McGee, H B;
Published Date:
1995 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 110(3):282-288
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The validity of self-reported data on the presence of guns in the home obtained in a telephone survey was assessed in samples of households where a hunting license had been purchased or a handgun registered. The survey was conducted among a random sa...
Schuster, M; Cohen, B B; Rodgers, C G; Walker, D K; Friedman, D J; Ozonoff, V V;
Published Date:
1995 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 110(3):246-250
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Massachusetts has developed the first State profile of the causes and costs of injury based on the national study, "Cost of Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress." Incidence of fatal injuries is based on Massachusetts data; nonfatal hospi...
In an investigation of 113 cases of clenbuterol poisoning in Catalonia, Spain, in 1992, more than 50 percent of those affected were found to have had symptoms of nervousness, tachycardia, muscle tremors, myalgia, and headache. There was no significan...
The purpose of this study was to develop intrauterine growth curves in a predominantly Hispanic population of low socioeconomic status near sea level and to compare them with published intrauterine growth curves. Infants born at Los Angeles County-Un...
Latino communities bear a disproportionate share of violence-related morbidity and mortality, yet little attention has been given to ethnic-cultural differences and their implications for violence prevention research and health promotion efforts. To ...
Difficulty with recall of injuries can result in underestimates of injury incidence and bias in risk estimates in surveys based on self-reports. This study examined the effect of recall on estimates of at-work injury obtained from the 1988 Occupation...
E codes classify causes of injury as unintentional, intentional, and undetermined. E-coded discharge data from hospitals provide an opportunity to use this source of morbidity data for planning, implementation, and evaluation of injury and violence p...
Based on a claims experience that was extremely low and malpractice insurance rates that remained at "commercial" rates, the Congress concluded in 1992 that coverage of malpractice actions against these grantees and their health care practitioners wo...
The "Rating the States" (RTS) Program of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is designed to bring public attention to the status of State government efforts to combat alcohol-impaired driving. MADD's 1993 report, which evaluated each State with a gr...
An inadequate number of trained primary care clinicians limits access to care at Community Health Centers. If family practice residents working in these centers can provide care to patients at a cost that is comparable to the center's hiring its own ...
Although many studies have documented patterns of emotional distress in persons undergoing radiation treatment for cancer, there have been few controlled evaluations of counseling or psychotherapy outcomes with these persons. In this research, the ef...
Tanner, Mary R.; Bush, Tim; Nesheim, Steven R; Weidle, Paul J.; Byrd, Kathy K.;
Published Date:
Oct 06 2017
Source:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 66(39):1033-1038.
Description:
In 2014, an estimated 2,477 children aged <13 years were living with diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States (1). Nationally, little is known about how well children with a diagnosis of HIV infection are retained i...
Lesko, Catherine R.; Sampson, Lynne A.; Miller, William C.; Clymore, Jacquelyn; Leone, Peter A.; Swygard, Heidi; Powers, Kimberly A.;
Published Date:
Dec 15 2015
Source:
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 70(5):489-494.
Description:
The HIV care continuum is a critical framework for situational awareness of the HIV epidemic; yet challenges to accurate enumeration of continuum components hamper continuum estimation in practice. We describe local surveillance-based estimation of t...
Background: To help document and improve early enrollment and retention in HIV care in 2011, the Swaziland Ministry of Health implemented a new set of standard operating procedures on linkage and retention (National SOP). The National SOP was impleme...
Lutfy, Caitlyn; Cookson, Susan T.; Talley, Leisel; Rochat, Roger;
Published Date:
Oct 2014
Source:
J Immigr Minor Health. 16(5):1016-1022.
Description:
Identifying and addressing malnutrition among US-bound refugee children is an important human rights issue. Failure to address childhood malnutrition can impair cognitive development and productivity. The target population was children aged 6-59 mont...