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An operational classification of disease prevention.
  • Published Date:
    1983 Mar-Apr
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 98(2):107-109
  • Language:
    English
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    1. A health needs index based on the health goals model.
      Personal Author:
      Chen, M K
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):181-184
      Description:
      A new quantitative index is proposed to measure the degree to which the health care needs of a population are met. It is based on the health goals model of Lester Breslow and A. R. Somers, who listed the kinds and frequencies of health services appro...
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    2. Out-of-hospital births in Michigan, 1972-79: trends and implications for the safety of planned home deliveries.
      Personal Author:
      Simmons, R; Bernstein, S;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):161-170
      Description:
      Trends in out-of-hospital births for the State of Michigan, 1972-79, were examined by analyzing (a) location of deliveries, (b) characteristics of the mother, (c) use of health services, and (d) characteristics of the newborn. A large increase occurr...
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    3. Worksite hypertension programs: results of a survey of 424 California employers.
      Personal Author:
      Fielding, J E; Breslow, L;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):127-132
      Description:
      More than 30 million American workers 17 years of age or older have some degree of hypertension, and nearly two-thirds of these workers have blood pressure greater than 160/95 mm Hg. Many employer-sponsored hypertension detection and control programs...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.17 MB]
    4. Uterine cancers of unspecified origin--a reassessment.
      Personal Author:
      Percy, C L; Horm, J W; Young, J L; Asire, A J;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):176-180
      Description:
      Uterine cancer ranks third in cancer incidence and fifth in cancer mortality among American women. The epidemiologic characteristics of cancer of the cervix uteri and the corpus uteri are different. When only "cancer of the uterus, not otherwise spec...
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    5. Predistribution of potassium iodide--the Tennessee experience.
      Personal Author:
      Fowinkle, E W; Sell, S H; Wolle, R H;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):123-126
      Description:
      Tennessee public health officials made a decision to predistribute potassium iodide tablets (KI) to householders in the vicinity of a nuclear powerplant. The tablets would be stored until needed in the event of a radiation emergency. The officials be...
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      Filetype[PDF - 964.08 KB]
    6. Meeting the health care needs of children with disabilities.
      Personal Author:
      Koop, C E
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):105-107
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 553.43 KB]
    7. Designing primary health care teams for developing countries.
      Personal Author:
      Reisman, A; Duran, L;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):184-189
      Description:
      A time-honored industrial engineering technique, job evaluation, which was developed to set rates for manual labor, was used in the design of new teams for delivering primary health care in Latin America. The technique was used both in writing job de...
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      Filetype[PDF - 850.19 KB]
    8. Where cancer patients die: an epidemiologic study.
      Personal Author:
      McCusker, J
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):170-176
      Description:
      In a sample of deaths among cancer patients, the relationship of place of death to age, sex, length of time between diagnosis and death, cancer site, and patients' socioeconomic status was investigated. The Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Tumor Registry pr...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.37 MB]
    9. Ophthalmia neonatorum prophylaxis in Vermont.
      Personal Author:
      Vogt, R L; Meyer, M R; Klaucke, D N;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):119-122
      Description:
      Vermont birth certificates and hospital medical charts for 1979 were reviewed to determine whether infants born at home or in hospitals had documentation of prophylaxis against gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. Of the 139 home births recorded in 1979...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.31 MB]
    10. Impact of divergent evaluations by physicians and patients of patients' complaints.
      Personal Author:
      Wartman, S A; Morlock, L L; Malitz, F E; Palm, E;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):141-145
      Description:
      Physicians' estimates of patients' anxiety, discomfort or pain, and activity limitation were compared with reports by their patients on the same dimensions. The data were collected as part of a series of quality assessment studies at a prepaid group ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 945.71 KB]
    11. Attitudes of faculty members of schools of public health toward public service.
      Personal Author:
      Harper, C L; Veney, J; Davidson, C;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):145-152
      Description:
      Public service has long been considered one of a traditional triad of academic functions--teaching, research, and service. Yet even in schools of public health, where service is purported to be an integral component of the institution's mission, facu...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.57 MB]
    12. PHS perspectives on misconduct in science.
      Personal Author:
      Brandt, E N
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):136-140
      Description:
      The Public Health Service (PHS) has undertaken a major effort to develop improved policies and procedures for dealing with misconduct in its research programs. Included in the definition of "misconduct" are the violation of Federal laws, regulations,...
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      Filetype[PDF - 950.79 KB]
    13. Public Health Rep ; v. 99, no. 2 : Masthead
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1983
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 724.33 KB]
    14. Differentials in the planning status of most recent live births to Mexican Americans and Anglos.
      Personal Author:
      Warren, Charles W.; Smith, Jack C.; Rochat, Roger W.;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):152-160
      Description:
      Data from personal interviews with 705 Mexican American and 363 Anglo women during the 1979 U.S. Mexico Border Survey were analyzed to answer the question, To what extent do Mexican Americans and Anglos differ in having the number of children they wa...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.52 MB]
    15. Public Health Rep ; v. 99, no. 2 : table of contents
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1983
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 285.93 KB]
    16. Public Health Rep
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1983
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 421.88 KB]
    17. Study of selected outcomes of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program in Michigan.
      Personal Author:
      Keller, W J
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):110-119
      Description:
      Michigan's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program has screened more than 1.1 million Medicaid-eligible children since its inception in 1973. A study of its effects showed screening referral rates, but not medical costs...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.04 MB]
    18. Characteristics of recipients in Florida's long-term program of insulin distribution.
      Personal Author:
      Williams, P E; Howell, J T; McDaniel, W W; Deeb, L C;
      Published Date:
      1983 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(2):189-193
      Description:
      Since 1935 the State health agency has provided insulin to medically indigent diabetics in Florida. During 1980, data were collected on 9,429 recipients regarding their age, race, sex, height, weight, and type and dosage of insulin. The mean age was ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 884.04 KB]
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