To expand community service opportunities in health promotion and disease prevention for approximately 20% of the female students at Boston High School, who are pregnant or parenting.|Students at Tufts University School of Medicine created, organized...
To understand why many Hispanic women begin prenatal care in the later stages of pregnancy.|The authors compared the demographic profile, insurance status, and health beliefs--including the perceived benefits of and barriers to initiating prenatal ca...
To examine the health status of Californians using a set of 18 health status indicators (HSIs) corresponding to goals set forth in Healthy People 2000 and to develop a health status profile for use in research and surveillance, policy development pro...
To enumerate drowning fatalities in Alaska in order to identify risk factors and areas for intervention.|Information from death certificates, state troopers' reports, and medical examiner reports were abstracted and analyzed. Rates were calculated us...
Kirkland, K B; Meriwether, R A; Leiss, J K; Mac Kenzie, W R;
Published Date:
1996 Nov-Dec
Source:
Public Health Rep. 111(6):527-530
Description:
To determine whether steaming oysters prevents gastroenteritis caused by small round structured (Norwalk-like) viruses and to identify risk factors for illness.|The authors interviewed all 48 people who ate oysters at two church suppers that were fol...