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. And 85 percent of them are Mexican Americans. Data were obtained on all suicides and homicides among Hispanics and Anglos (white non-Hispanics), using Anglos as a comparison group. Results for suicide showed the suicide rate for Hispanics (9.0 per 100,000) to be less than the national rate for whites (13.2) and half that of the Anglos residing in the same area (19.2). The lower suicide rate for Hispanics relative to Anglos is seen for both males and females. For homicide, the overall rate for Hispanics (20.5) was more than 2 1/2 times that of Anglos (7.9). The rate for Hispanic men (39.3) was more than three times the rate for Anglo men (11.4).
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Division of Injury, Epidemiology, and Control.. Center for Health Promotion and Education (U.S.). Violence Epidemiology Branch..
Published Date:
November 1986
Series:
Homicide surveillance report
Description:
In September 1983, the first Homicide Surveillance Report was published detailing national homicide mortality statistics in terms of the impact of homicide as a public health problem. In that report, and in previous sociologic and criminologic resear...
Silverman, Morton M.; Lalley, Thomas L.; Rosenberg, Mark L.; Smith, Jack C.; Parron, Delores; Jacobs, Joan;
Published Date:
1988 Jan-Feb
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(1):38-49
Description:
Control of stress and violent behavior is 1 of the 15 priority areas addressed in the 1990 health objectives for the nation. For control of stress, improved awareness of appropriate community service agencies and increased scientific knowledge of str...
Latino communities bear a disproportionate share of violence-related morbidity and mortality, yet little attention has been given to ethnic-cultural differences and their implications for violence prevention research and health promotion efforts. To ...
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...
The control of stress and violent behavior is 1 of the 15 priority areas addressed in the Public Health Service's Objectives for the Nation. The National Institute of Mental Health, which provides a national focus for the Federal effort to increase k...