The impact of disease on a population includes illness, death, and medical care cost. Information on all three may be combined in a disease impact scale. The disease impact for a given condition can be defined as the sum of (a) the years of life lost...

The influenza epidemic of 1978 was studied on a college campus, since a college is a type of "total institution" in which work, residence, and recreation are all concentrated in one organization with clearly delineated social boundaries and a unique ...

Maldistribution with respect of medical practice location and specialty continues to present barriers to quality care for many Americans. Residents of rural communities in Colorado often lack access to health care services appropriate in number and n...

A school-based streptococcal surveillance program has been in effect among Navajo Indians for more than 4 years. Throat cultures of symptomatic children are obtained when indicated, and routine throat cultures are performed monthly. Children whose cu...

The Special Projects Division of the City of Milwaukee Health Department conducted a telephone survey among randomly selected adult residents to determine the population having the greatest potential for benefiting from a health screening a counselin...

On cover: Health status of U.S. children

By the traditional measures of health status-mortality rates- the health of children in the United States has greatly improved. Fom 1970 to 1979 the infant mortality rate declined from 20.0 to 13.0 per 1,000 live births. The mortality rate per 100,00...

In a research project undertaken to describe the content of adult primary care, episodes of illness for six common primary care conditions were analyzed: URI (upper respiratory infection, UTI (urinary tract infection), HYP (hypertension), AP (abdomin...

Data gathered in the 1977 National Health Interview Survey indicate that stroke continues to be a major health problem in the United States. It affects approximately 2 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population over age 20. An examinatio...

In early 1979, an official of an Illinois hospital reported an increase in the number of patients from whom Mycobacterium avium complex recently had been recovered. Over the preceding 3 years specimens from a total of 51 patients were culture positiv...