Examinations of 427 prisoners at the time of the admission to a large urban county jail showed that more than a quarter were, or had been, users of potentially addictive drugs. Except for their drug problems, the drug users did not present any more o...

A method of synthetic estimation of health characteristics for local areas, devised by the National Center of Health Statistics, was evaluated in a recent study. In the method, local data on population are combined with national data on a given healt...

An examination of the causes of the increases in payments made for 9 of the 17 health services provided by the New Jersey Medicaid program during calendar years 1970-74 revealed that most of the overall increase occurred because of an increase in uti...

Over a 3-year period, only 22 new active cases of tuberculosis were discovered as a result of taking 48,000 70-mm X-ray films of generally elderly and chronically ill patients. The cases were among the patients of the general medical outpatient clini...

A study of 190 Philippine family planning clinics revealed that certain clinic and physician characteristics were significantly and positively associated with clinic effectiveness, defined in terms of the mean number of monthly acceptors of family pl...