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Mortality among minority populations: a review of recent patterns and trends.
  • Published Date:
    1983 May-Jun
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 98(3):252-260
  • Language:
    English
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    1. Relief of pain, the physician's formidable challenge.
      Personal Author:
      Brandt, E N
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):201-202
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      Filetype[PDF - 454.61 KB]
    2. Toward a philosophy of aging for the public health professions.
      Personal Author:
      Koop, C E
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):203-206
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.20 MB]
    3. HMO members and clinicians rank health education needs.
      Personal Author:
      Nicklason, J H; Donaldson, M S; Ott, J E;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):222-226
      Description:
      Before expanding a health education program, the staff of the George Washington University Health Plan conducted a needs assessment of members. Patients in the HMO's adult care and parents in pediatric waiting areas answered survey questions, and a r...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.23 MB]
    4. The childbearing Haitian refugee--cultural applications to clinical nursing.
      Personal Author:
      Dempsey, P A; Gesse, T;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):261-267
      Description:
      As a result of the recent influx of Haitian refugees, referred to as the "boat people," the large county-owned hospital in Miami, Fla., reported that, of the 8,000 births for 1980, approximately 1 in 5 deliveries was of a Haitian woman. One hundred f...
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    5. High-frequency hearing loss in male farmers of Missouri.
      Personal Author:
      Thelin, J W; Joseph, D J; Davis, W E; Baker, D E; Hosokawa, M C;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):268-273
      Description:
      Farmers are exposed to noise that is potentially hazardous to hearing. We measured the hearing of 161 male farmers and 75 male nonfarmers at the 1979 Missouri Farmers Association Agri-Fair and compared it with the hearing of 129 office workers from c...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.54 MB]
    6. The Health Careers Opportunity Program: one influence on increasing the number of minority students in schools of health professions.
      Personal Author:
      Testoff, A; Aronoff, R;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):284-291
      Description:
      Certain U.S. racial and ethnic minority groups traditionally have been underrepresented in the health professions. There have been significantly smaller proportions of health professionals who are blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians than members ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.58 MB]
    7. Public Health Rep
      Published Date:
      May-Jun 1983
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      Filetype[PDF - 382.24 KB]
    8. Source, significance, and control of indoor microbial aerosols: human health aspects.
      Personal Author:
      Spendlove, J C; Fannin, K F;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):229-244
      Description:
      The usual profile of indoor microbial aerosols probably has little meaning to healthy people. However, hazardous microbial aerosols can penetrate buildings or be generated within them; in either case, they can have significant adverse effects on huma...
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      Filetype[PDF - 3.33 MB]
    9. The United States--The Netherlands Round Table Conference on immunization. Summary report.
      Personal Author:
      Ruitenberg, E. Joost; Hinman, Alan R.;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):218-222
      Description:
      A group of public health scientists from the United States and The Netherlands met at a Bicentennial Round Table Conference December 1-2, 1982, to discuss the latest developments in immunization against infectious diseases, focusing on pertussis, pol...
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      Filetype[PDF - 801.14 KB]
    10. Public Health Rep ; v. 98, no. 3 : Masthead
      Published Date:
      May-Jun 1983
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3)
      Description:
      Includes "publications" list.
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.45 MB]
    11. FDA's dietary sodium initiative--in the war against hypertension, a new weapon.
      Personal Author:
      Hayes, A H
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):207-210
      Description:
      The Food and Drug Administration is engaged in a broad-based program to make consumers more aware of the potential impact on health of sodium consumption well in excess of dietary needs; to encourage food manufacturers to lower the amounts of sodium ...
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    12. Increasing the effectiveness of community workers through training of spouses: a family planning experiment in Guatemala.
      Personal Author:
      Pineda, M A; Bertrand, J T; Santiso, R; Guerra, S;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):273-277
      Description:
      As community-based distribution (CBD) systems for the delivery of contraceptive methods are implemented in developing countries around the world, there is growing interest in making these programs more effective. Previous research on the CBD program ...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.33 MB]
    13. Surveillance and control of infectious diseases: progress toward the 1990 objectives.
      Personal Author:
      Dowdle, W R
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):210-218
      Description:
      Great progress has been made in the United States in reducing infectious disease mortality. However, infectious diseases remain the greatest cause of morbidity in this country. Newer infectious diseases or agents have been recognized, but newer tools...
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      Filetype[PDF - 3.52 MB]
    14. National health and nutrition examination I--epidemiologic follow-up survey.
      Personal Author:
      Cornoni-Huntley, Joan; Barbano, Helen E.; Brody, Jacob A.; Cohen, Bruce; Feldman, Jacob J.; Kleinman, Joel C.; Madans, Jennifer H.;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):245-251
      Description:
      An epidemiologic follow-up of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I), being conducted from 1982 to 1984, is expected to provide estimates of the risks of certain health conditions for a sample of the U.S. population and...
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      Filetype[PDF - 2.37 MB]
    15. An example of record linkage methods to monitor mortality and cancer incidence
      Personal Author:
      Stark, Alice D.; Janerich, Dwight T.; Jereb, Susan K.; Hoff, Margaret;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):277-283
      Description:
      Linkage of New York State record systems was the key strategy in a restrospective cohort study with a 24-34 year followup interval. Parents of children with anencephaly or spina bifida and matched control parents were traced to determine the parents'...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1.52 MB]
    16. Dental care needs of Army recruits.
      Personal Author:
      Parker, W A; Mangelsdorff, A D; Brunner, D G;
      Published Date:
      1983 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3):292-296
      Description:
      To determine the prevalence amng current U.S. Army recruits of dental conditions requiring treatment, an assessment was done of the dental care needs of a 3 percent sample (N = 5,613) of incoming recruits at all seven U.S. Army reception stations tha...
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      Filetype[PDF - 1018.53 KB]
    17. Public Health Rep ; v. 98, no. 3 : table of contents
      Published Date:
      May-Jun 1983
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 98(3)
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      Filetype[PDF - 287.81 KB]
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