The results of a study of the use of intermediate care beds in the intermediate care facility (ICF) of the Yale Health Plan, a prepaid group practice plan for students and an enrolled non-student population, indicate that the ICF may be a possible mo...
Physicians generally know how patients pay for their medical care. At the Marshfield Clinic, however, a group practice in Marshfield, Wis., physicians did not know the source of payment for the vast majority of their patients (79.3 percent). Also, ev...
Crawford, C O; Schelzel, G W; Fleming, P L; Harrison, I E;
Published Date:
1975 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 90(2):168-172
Description:
The separate and combined effects of participation in a health careers program and of parental support for a health career on young people's interest in a health career were examined. Twenty-seven eighth graders participating in a health careers orie...
An automated health testing (AHT) laboratory was introduced into a large medical group practice in January 1970. The impact of AHT was studied by means of a matrix of before and after its introduction and the physicians with high and low volumes of r...
The communications methods that could be used in educational programs for venereal disease patients were examined as to their relative effectiveness: a programed learning guide, an audiovisual (cinematographic) technique, and an interview method. An ...
The Drug Abuse Administration of the State of Maryland in 1972 established an emergency holding facility in Baltimore. Its purpose was to attract into programs those addicts who had been treated by a private physician in Washington, D.C., until his o...
Morgan, P M; Murphy, R F; Willis, R A; Hubbard, D W; Norton, J M;
Published Date:
1975 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 90(2):173-178
Description:
The dental health status of 4,006 residents of Louisiana was analyzed, based on data in the 1968-70 Ten-State Nutrition Survey funded by the U.S. Government. These data were based on examinations of census districts in which the average per capita in...
Reprint of "Reports of the Surgeon-General, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Experimenttal transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by means of the tick: preliminary note" Public Health Rep. 21():863-863, July 27, 1906.In commemoration ...
Communication barriers between health care providers and older women are multifaceted and complex. The acute care, hospital-based orientation of the health care system tends to bypass the characteristic problems of older women who need services. Brea...
Nycz, G R; Wenzel, F J; Lohrenz, F N; Mitchell, J H;
Published Date:
1976 Nov-Dec
Source:
Public Health Rep. 91(6):504-507
Description:
To determine the degree to which enrollees of the Greater Marshfield Community Health Plan were representative of the community the plan was designed to serve, a telephone survey of 1,838 households in the 30-township area was undertaken. The respons...
A dial-access public information system providing information about cancer to the populace has been developed by Roswell Park Memorial Institute. The system is comprised of a tape library consisting of 36 pre-recorded tapes in English on a variety of...
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