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Health problems of minority groups: public health's unfinished agenda.
  • Published Date:

    1986 May-Jun

  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 101(3):230-231
  • Language:
    English
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      Personal Author:
      Alexander, C S; Klassen, A C;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):301-308
      Description:
      The impact of changes in the delivery of well child health services by a rural health department on the reported health status, immunization status, and patterns of health care use is evaluated for poor children born in 1981, when well child clinic s...
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      Markides, K S; Coreil, J;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):253-265
      Description:
      Recent reports in the literature on the health status of southwestern Hispanics, most of whom are Mexican Americans, are reviewed critically. The review is organized into the following sections: infant mortality, mortality at other ages, cardiovascul...
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      Dean, A G; Shultz, J M; Gust, S W; Harty, K C; Moen, M E;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):270-277
      Description:
      In 1981, the Minnesota Department of Health began a long-term program to control risk factors for the major health problems of the State as determined by an expert committee. The methods chosen to initiate programs were social, economic, and epidemio...
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      Peoples-Sheps, M D; Siegel, E; Guild, P A; Cohen, S R;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):320-329
      Description:
      With the advent of the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant, both maternal and child health programs and crippled children's (CC) programs at the State level have assumed greater responsibility for identifying populations in need, planning ...
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      Waxman, H M
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):294-300
      Description:
      Despite the recent attention given to mental disorders in the aged and their higher risk for organic mental disorders, older people rarely receive specialized mental health treatment. This paper reviews recent research on some of the major obstacles ...
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      Published Date:
      May-Jun 1986
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3)
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      Personal Author:
      Hopkins, D R
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):234-237
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      Personal Author:
      Leonard, B; Leonard, C; Wilson, R;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):282-288
      Description:
      Widespread type II diabetes among North American Indians and certain other populations is a relatively recent medical phenomenon. Increased prevalence of diabetes appears to be related to sudden cultural shifts toward sedentary lifestyle and increase...
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      Personal Author:
      Seixas, N S; Rosenman, K D;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):278-282
      Description:
      For 18 months (1983-84), a pilot program was set up to promote the reporting of occupational disease by physicians to a local health agency. The objectives of the program were to increase the awareness among physicians of occupational disease in thei...
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      Personal Author:
      Booth, C S; Safer, M A; Leventhal, H;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):315-319
      Description:
      Cardiac screening programs are ineffective when participants with abnormal findings fail to seek treatment and, to a lesser extent, when participants with normal findings use medical facilities unnecessarily because of continuing concern about heart ...
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      Andersen, R M; Giachello, A L; Aday, L A;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):238-252
      Description:
      The most current research literature on the access of Hispanics to medical care is reviewed, and data from a 1982 national survey by Louis Harris and Associates on access to health care are presented to document current levels of access to health car...
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      Personal Author:
      Mason, J O
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):229-230
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      Personal Author:
      Dowdle, W
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):232-233
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      Personal Author:
      Smith, Jack C.; Mercy, James A.; Rosenberg, Mark L.;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):265-270
      Description:
      A study of suicide and homicide among Hispanics of Mexican origin (Mexican Americans) focused on five southwestern States--Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas--where more than 60 percent of all Hispanics in the United States reside. ...
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      May-Jun 1986
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      Public Health Rep. 101(3)
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      Serdula, M K; Marks, J S; Remington, P L; Ibara, C M; White, M C;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):329-333
      Description:
      Premarital rubella screening programs are effective in identifying women of childbearing age who are susceptible to rubella. There is concern, however, that once identified, susceptible women may not be subsequently vaccinated. Therefore, a study was...
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      May-Jun 1986
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      Public Health Rep 101 (3)
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      Personal Author:
      Linn, S; Almagor, G; Lamm, S;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):237
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      Personal Author:
      Eimas, P D; Kavanagh, J F;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):289-293
      Description:
      Growing evidence indicates that a significant relationship exists between the conductive hearing loss resulting from recurrent otitis media (OM) during the first 3-5 years of life and subsequent problems in acquisition of language and academic skills...
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      Lum, M K; Knutson, L R; Hall, D B; Margolis, H S; Bender, T R;
      Published Date:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):309-314
      Description:
      A 1960-62 study of southwestern Alaskan Eskimos documented an infant mortality rate--102.6 deaths per 1,000 live births--that was four times greater than that of U.S. whites. In 1980-81, 20 years after the original study, a similar cohort was identif...
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