Until the last few years, graduate medical education (GME) positions were so plentiful in the United States that even with a heavy influx of both U.S. and alien graduates of foreign medical schools, many positions remained unfilled. In the future, ho...

While drug abuse among adolescents and young adults has begun to decline from the epidemic levels of the late 1970s, it remains a serious national health problem. Much information from research suggests that young people at the junior and senior high...

Unintentional injuries are the principal cause of preventable early death. Beyond terms of human suffering and death, injuries place enormous burdens on this country's economic and health care resources. Demographic, sociological, environmental, and ...

A study of dental malpractice claims closed during the 1970s was conducted using closed claim data available as a byproduct of a survey conducted by the Secretary's Commission on Medical Malpractice, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare....

The impact of dual systems of health care on those who use them is not well understood. A study was undertaken in Nigeria to study this impact. A questionnaire about use of dual health care systems was prepared and tested and then administered to a s...

The 52 children in the study were recruited from two fifth grade classes in Baltimore city. The blood pressures and heart rates were recorded both at rest and while they read aloud in a classroom setting. A computerized monitoring system was used to ...

The actual use of surgical physician assistants in 1979 and the expected use of them in 1984 by 552 general hospitals in the United States with 400 or more beds was assessed by means of a questionnaire mailed to the hospitals' surgical department cha...

There is a perception that the career options open to medical school graduates who are members of minority groups are restricted. This perception relates especially to those postgraduate medical training programs that have not traditionally encourage...

Three documents that considerably facilitate primary care research have been produced in recent years. They are an international glossary of primary care health terms, an international classification of primary care health problems, and a primary car...

An examination of 1978 natality data for the United States disclosed that low birth weight was less common among 30,819 infants born out of hospital than among 3,294,101 infants born in hospital in that year. When controls were applied for birth atte...

Rural areas of the United States, compared with urban areas, exhibit a scarcity of resources and programs designed to provide health and supportive services to impaired elderly persons living in the community. Furthermore, recent research has indicat...

Previous studies of underreporting of disease have mainly addressed the attitudes of physicians toward reporting of communicable disease to public health agencies and have not examined adequately the physicians' knowledge of the reporting system as a...