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Suicide and homicide among Hispanics in the southwest.
  • Published Date:
    1986 May-Jun
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 101(3):265-270
  • Language:
    English
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    1. The health of Hispanics in the southwestern United States: an epidemiologic paradox.
      Personal Author:
      Markides, K S; Coreil, J;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 2.83 MB]
    2. Minnesota plan for nonsmoking and health: multidisciplinary approach to risk factor control.
      Personal Author:
      Dean, A G; Shultz, J M; Gust, S W; Harty, K C; Moen, M E;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.63 MB]
    3. Community mental health care for the elderly--a look at the obstacles.
      Personal Author:
      Waxman, H M
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.74 MB]
    4. Zuni Diabetes Project.
      Personal Author:
      Leonard, B; Leonard, C; Wilson, R;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.85 MB]
    5. Curtailment of well child services by a local health department: impact on rural 2-year-olds.
      Personal Author:
      Alexander, C S; Klassen, A C;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.32 MB]
    6. Otitis media, hearing loss, and child development: a NICHD conference summary.
      Personal Author:
      Eimas, P D; Kavanagh, J F;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.45 MB]
    7. Voluntary reporting system for occupational disease: pilot project, evaluation.
      Personal Author:
      Seixas, N S; Rosenman, K D;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.10 MB]
    8. Key epidemiologic questions about AIDS and infection with HTLV-III/LAV.
      Personal Author:
      Hopkins, D R
      Published:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):234-237
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 550.48 KB]
    9. Health problems of minority groups: public health's unfinished agenda.
      Personal Author:
      Nickens, H
      Published:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):230-231
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 330.81 KB]
    10. Vaccine supply and liability.
      Personal Author:
      Mason, J O
      Published:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):229-230
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 357.58 KB]
    11. The search for an AIDS vaccine.
      Personal Author:
      Dowdle, W
      Published:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):232-233
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 557.40 KB]
    12. Gynecomastia among Ethiopian Jews.
      Personal Author:
      Linn, S; Almagor, G; Lamm, S;
      Published:
      1986 May-Jun
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3):237
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 125.01 KB]
    13. Public Health Rep
      Published:
      May-Jun 1986
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      Filetype[PDF - 589.90 KB]
    14. Access of Hispanics to health care and cuts in services: a state-of-the-art overview.
      Personal Author:
      Andersen, R M; Giachello, A L; Aday, L A;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 3.26 MB]
    15. The management and use of data on maternal and child health and crippled children: a survey.
      Personal Author:
      Peoples-Sheps, M D; Siegel, E; Guild, P A; Cohen, S R;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.79 MB]
    16. Premarital rubella screening program: from identification to vaccination of susceptible women in the state of Hawaii.
      Personal Author:
      Serdula, M K; Marks, J S; Remington, P L; Ibara, C M; White, M C;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1023.26 KB]
    17. Use of physician services following participation in a cardiac screening program.
      Personal Author:
      Booth, C S; Safer, M A; Leventhal, H;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.41 MB]
    18. Public Health Rep ; v. 101, no. 3 : Masthead
      Published:
      May-Jun 1986
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.96 MB]
    19. Public Health Rep ; v. 101, no. 2 : table of contents
      Published:
      May-Jun 1986
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 101(3)
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      Filetype[PDF - 488.68 KB]
    20. Decline in infant mortality of Alaskan Yupik Eskimos from 1960 to 1980.
      Personal Author:
      Lum, M K; Knutson, L R; Hall, D B; Margolis, H S; Bender, T R;
      Published:
      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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      Filetype[PDF - 1.33 MB]
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