To estimate state-by-state totals of medical expenditures attributable to cigarette smoking for calendar year 1993.|The smoking-attributable fractions (SAFs) of total state medical expenditures, by type of expenditure, were estimated using a national...
Guttman, Nurit; Boccher-Lattimore, Daria; Salmon, Charles T.;
Published Date:
1998 Sep-Oct
Source:
Public Health Rep. 113(5):465-471
Description:
The authors analyzed data from the 1991 National Planning Survey to (a) assess respondents' awareness of three official sources of information about HIV/AIDS (CDC, the Surgeon General, and state health departments); (b) assess respondents' perception...
To determine whether a Maine law lowering the legal blood alcohol limit (BAL) from 0.10% to 0.05% for people convicted of driving while intoxicated (DWI) reduced the involvement of this group in fatal crashes.|The authors calculated changes in the pr...
To detect and explain changing trends in incidence, case fatality rates, and mortality for unintentional injuries in the Netherlands for the years 1950 through 1995.|Using national registry data, the authors analyzed trends in traffic injuries, occup...
To estimate the proportion of U.S. homes with installed smoke alarms, smoke alarms on the same floor as occupants' bedrooms, and fire escape plans.|The authors analyzed data on smoke alarm use and fire escape planning from a 1994 stratified random te...
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of a community education campaign to encourage a switch from high-fat (whole and 2%) milk to low-fat (1%, 1/2%, and skim) milk as a way to reduce consumption of saturated fat.|Milk sales data were collected fro...
Recent studies have described tobacco advertising in the print media, on billboards, and through sponsorship of cultural and sporting events. However, little attention has been given to another common and unavoidable source of tobacco advertising, th...
Public service advertisements have been used by many in hopes of "selling" good health behaviors. But selling good behavior--even if it could be done more effectively--is not the best goal for using mass media to prevent health problems. Personal beh...
Popham, W J; Potter, L D; Bal, D G; Johnson, M D; Duerr, J M; Quinn, V;
Published Date:
1993 Jul-Aug
Source:
Public Health Rep. 108(4):510-513
Description:
As part of an evaluation of the 1990-91 anti-tobacco media campaign carried out by the California Department of Health Services, a study was conducted among 417 regular smokers who had quit during the period of the media campaign. In brief telephone ...
Understanding the mass media is a prerequisite to gaining the cooperation of those who control access to media time and space to improve the coverage of health issues about which the public needs, and often wants, to know. To address the complexities...
Focus group research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health suggested that the desire of teenagers to gain control over their lives would make them responsive to a counteradvertising strategy aimed ...
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