Prevalence studies of the use of ambulatory health care services have consistently reported relatively lower demand for services in rural areas. Such studies have implied that low use rates may be fixed characteristics of rural populations and may be resistant to the influence of manipulable variables such as supply of physicians. This longitudinal study suggests that use rates are in fact significantly changed after improvement of manpower resources, but that the effects are limited to the vicinity of new practice locations.
To investigate the validity of the credentialing examination for entry-level practitioners in environmental health, 15 work measures, simulating or as...
Identify persons with epilepsy by first looking for prescriptions for particular antiseizure drugs. Follow these prescriptions from the pharmacies to ...
Under Norway's prospective payment system, which was in existence from 1972 to 1980, hospital costs increased 15.8 percent annually, compared with 15....
In the fall of 1982, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Public Health Service, engaged the services of the North America Precis Sy...
Linked birth and death records provided the population for an investigation of declines in nonwhite and white neonatal mortality rates (NMR) in Missis...
Within the last decade, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has increasingly emphasized environmental public health activities. The Center for Envir...
Tuberculin skin testing is an accurate, inexpensive screening procedure for detecting tuberculosis infection. The return visit needed to interpret the...
All 319 participants of an intensive continuing education course on optometric hypertension screening at the University of Alabama at Birmingham were ...
An epidemiology teaching course for third-year medical students was developed at the University of Vermont's College of Medicine by staff members of t...
With the passage of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act and the establishment of the block grant system in 1981, responsibility for the direction of many p...
The University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, compi...
Less than one-fifth of the U.S. population consistently wears automobile seatbelts. Automatic seatbelts or air bags will be required in all new cars, ...
Borrelia miyamotoi, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, was recognized as an agent of hard tick relapsing fever in the United States in 2013. Nine state...
BackgroundWorldwide data for cancer survival are scarce. We aimed to initiate worldwide surveillance of cancer survival by central analysis of populat...
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