Holstein, E C; Deuschle, K W; Bosch, S; Fischer, E; Rohl, A N; Selikoff, I J;
Published Date:
1984 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 99(2):193-199
Description:
The Port Allegany Asbestos Health Program (PAAHP) is a unique, community-run program that resulted from the successful cooperative efforts of a labor union, a corporation, community health care providers, and a medical school. PAAHP's goal is to deve...
Between 1968 and 1978, the rates for spontaneous deaths, recorded on Upstate New York fetal death certificates, that occurred after 28 or more weeks of gestation dropped 37 percent, and the rates for deaths that occurred at 20 to 27 completed weeks o...
This analysis is based on the 1972 and 1980 National Natality Surveys, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. About 10.6 percent (381,000) of women in the United States who delivered live infants in 1980 were sterilized postpartum. A...
Prager, Kate; Malin, Henry; Spiegler, Danielle; Van Natta, Pearl; Placek, Paul J.;
Published Date:
1984 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 99(2):117-127
Description:
Data from the 1980 National Natality Survey (NNS) and the 1980 National Fetal Mortality Survey (NFMS) are used to describe the drinking and smoking behavior of married mothers before and during pregnancy according to maternal race and Hispanic origin...
The association of childbearing at early and late ages with various adverse outcomes of pregnancy was explored in data collected in the 1980 National Natality and Fetal Mortality Surveys. The characteristics of interest for teenage mothers were marit...
A retrospective review of the charts of 52 patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the New York Hospital was conducted to determine the prevalence of recorded psychiatric complications and the use of psychiatric consultation. Neur...
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a new epidemic disease characterized by dysfunction of cellular immunity, is most common among homosexual and bisexual males with multiple sexual partners and users of intravenous drugs. AIDS appears to be ...
Assuring all infants a healthy start in life and enhancing the health of their mothers are goals of the Public Health Service's health promotion and disease prevention initiative. The 13 priority objectives selected for the pregnancy and infant healt...
Data from the 1980 National Natality and National Fetal Mortality Surveys were used to characterize the occupations of women during the year before delivery; to search for disproportionate numbers of adverse pregnancy outcomes in specific occupationa...
Seven Public Health Service agencies collaborated with the National Center for Health Statistics in designing, funding, and analyzing the 1980 National Natality Survey (NNS) and 1980 National Fetal Mortality Survey (NFMS). The 1980 NNS-NFMS were nati...
Placek, Paul J.; Keppel, Kenneth G.; Taffel, Selma M.; Liss, Teri L.;
Published Date:
1984 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 99(2):173-183
Description:
In the 1980 National Natality and Fetal Mortality Surveys, information about fetal monitoring and type of delivery was obtained from hospitals for a sample of 9,941 live births and 6,386 fetal deaths of 28 weeks' gestation or more. Data in this analy...
Hutchins, Vince; Kessel, Samuel S.; Placek, Paul J.;
Published Date:
1984 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 99(2):162-172
Description:
Today, low birth weight--weight less than 2,500 grams (5 pounds 8 ounces)--is recognized as the single most significant characteristic of the newborn associated with a greater risk of mortality and morbidity. This paper highlights maternal and infant...
Hamilton, Peggy M.; Roney, Paul L.; Keppel, Kenneth G.; Placek, Paul J.;
Published Date:
1984 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 99(2):146-151
Description:
The 1980 National Natality Survey (NNS) and 1980 National Fetal Mortality Survey (NFMS) provide a unique opportunity to examine variation in exposure to radiation during pregnancy for mothers of live-born and stillborn infants. Maternal race, age, ed...
Research programs of the National Institute on Drug Abuse take a broad approach to investigating the problems of intervention in intravenous drug use and its relation to the AIDS epidemic. Current prevention strategies are directed to reducing the ra...
Schilling, R F; el-Bassel, N; Schinke, S P; Gordon, K; Nichols, S;
Published Date:
1991 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 106(3):297-304
Description:
Although most women infected with HIV are intravenous drug users, some contact the virus through sexual contact with IV drug users. To reach at-risk women, public health officials must develop a range of prevention strategies. One approach, skills tr...
National AIDS Clearinghouse, Catalog of HIV and AIDS education and prevention materials (September 1994) ; order number P145
America responds to AIDS
Description:
Black couple embracing in urban landscape.22 x 16Black and white poster with the title at the top. The visual image is a black and white photo reproduction of an African American couple. The woman is standing and the man is sitting on a ledge behind ...
Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (U.S.). Centers for Disease Control (U.S.).
Published Date:
April 14, 1989
Source:
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 1989; 38(14):236-8, 243-50.
Description:
These recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing are intended for all health-care providers in the public and private sectors, including those working in hospital emergency departments, urgent care clinics, inpatient services, sub...
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