Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)最新文献

Differential effect of damp housing on respiratory health in women. 潮湿住房对妇女呼吸系统健康的不同影响。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Donna Rennie, Yue Chen, Joshua Lawson, James Dosman

{"title":"Differential effect of damp housing on respiratory health in women.","authors":"Donna Rennie, Yue Chen, Joshua Lawson, James Dosman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To investigate the effect of exposure to damp housing on respiratory symptoms in women and men.Method: We examined sex differences in the relationship between damp housing and respiratory symptoms in a cross-sectional survey of 1988 adults, 18 to 74 years of age, using a self-administered questionnaire. We used chi (2) and t-tests to test associations between potential risk factors and respiratory symptoms in men and women. We used multiple logistic regression modelling to determine adjusted odds ratios for several possible symptoms and home dampness. All multivariate analyses were stratified by sex.Results: Men had a significantly higher prevalence of chronic wheeze compared with women. The prevalence of chronic wheeze, wheeze with shortness of breath, and allergy were higher for women reporting damp housing compared with those not reporting damp housing. No significant associations between damp housing and respiratory symptoms were found in men.Conclusion: These data raise the possibility that women may be more susceptible to the effects of damp housing than men are.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"46-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26149119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Physician pattern of patient notification of test results. 医生通知病人检查结果的方式。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Carolyn C Thiedke, Katherine A Hoeft, William S Pearson

{"title":"Physician pattern of patient notification of test results.","authors":"Carolyn C Thiedke, Katherine A Hoeft, William S Pearson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To discover how community-based family physicians notify patients of test results and whether there are differences based on sex, length of time in practice, reimbursement status, employment status,or percentage of practice in managed care.Methods: We mailed a survey to 500 randomly selected members of the South Carolina chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians. All analyses were preformed using SASTM version 8.2. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data.Results: A total of 367 physicians responded (73% response rate). The main outcome variable was the time each physician spent notifying patients of test results: a mean of 20.86 +/- 18.3 minutes per day(range 0-120 minutes/day). Women physicians and those with more than 75% managed care were significantly more likely to spend more than the median time notifying patients of test results.Conclusion: Physicians vary in the amount of time they spend notifying patients of their test results, with female physicians and those with more than 75% of their practice in managed care spending more time than do male physicians and physicians with less managed care.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"58-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26149122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gang and multiple rapes during military service: health consequences and health care. 服役期间的轮奸和多重强奸:健康后果和保健。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Anne G Sadler, Brenda M Booth, Bradley N Doebbeling

{"title":"Gang and multiple rapes during military service: health consequences and health care.","authors":"Anne G Sadler, Brenda M Booth, Bradley N Doebbeling","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: We aimed to determine whether there were differences in women veteran's health status and use of health care services by type of rape that occurred during military service.Methods: We conducted a national cross-sectional survey of women veterans who served in Vietnam and subsequent eras and were listed in Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive women's health care registries. We used structured telephone interviews to gather socioeconomic information, violence history, use of outpatient health care services, and health status for a random sample, stratified by region and era of service.Results: Five hundred forty women completed the interview, 28% of whom reported being raped during military service. Nineteen percent reported a single rape, 5% reported repeated rape (range 2-36), and 5% reported gang rape. Women who reported repeated and gang rapes had significantly impaired physical and emotional health compared with women with a single or no rape (p < or = .05). Repeatedly raped women were more likely to use inpatient and outpatient mental health services (p < or = .05). Gang-rape survivors reported the most severe impairment in physical functioning and general health and demonstrated a trend to seek outpatient medical services.Conclusions: Simply asking a woman if she has been raped is not sufficient to detect the level of consequences. More than a decade after military discharge, women who experienced repeated or gang rape during their military service had significant impairment of physical and emotional health compared with women with no or a single rape. The differential health effects associated with severe violence supports the public health importance of sexual violence screening, treatment, and prevention.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"33-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26147307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Disparity in maternal mortality in New York City. 纽约市产妇死亡率的差异。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Vandana Sundaram, Kai-Lih Liu, Fabienne Laraque

{"title":"Disparity in maternal mortality in New York City.","authors":"Vandana Sundaram, Kai-Lih Liu, Fabienne Laraque","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To describe maternal deaths and 10-year trends in maternal mortality in New York City.Methods: All maternal deaths reported by surveillance of vital records (bearing ICD-9 codes 630-676) in New York City between 1989 and 1998 were studied. Were viewed death certificates and medical and autopsy records to collect age, race/ethnicity, country of birth, marital status, education level, residence at time of death, cause of death, and outcome of pregnancy. Trends analysis for maternal mortality rates was conducted, stratified by race. We conducted univariate and multivariate analysis to identify risk factors for maternal death.Results: Two hundred forty-three maternal deaths were reported, for an average maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 18.4 deaths per 100,000 live births during this period. Although the overall MMR decreased from 17.4 in 1989 to 13.7 in 1998, the MMR varied widely during the period with a non significant trend (x2 for trend 2.09, p=.15). However, the individual MMR for whites and blacks decreased significantly from 1989 to 1998. The black-white MMR ratio remained high throughout this period and varied from 2.2 in 1994 to 14.8 in 1998. Women who were 35 years of age or older or non-Hispanic black had an increased risk of a pregnancy-related death. The leading causes of death were hemorrhage, embolism, and infection.Conclusion: Racial disparity in maternal mortality is a cause for concern in New York City. Further studies of maternal mortality are needed to develop interventions to reduce the MMR and the black-white gap.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"52-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26149120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Batterers' use of guns to threaten intimate partners. 殴打者用枪威胁亲密伴侣。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Emily F Rothman, David Hemenway, Matthew Miller, Deb Azrael

{"title":"Batterers' use of guns to threaten intimate partners.","authors":"Emily F Rothman, David Hemenway, Matthew Miller, Deb Azrael","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: To present the prevalence of gun ownership among batterers and describe their self-reported use of guns to threaten intimate partners.Methods: We used multivariate methods to analyze data from 8529 men enrolled in Massachusetts certified batterer intervention programs between 1999 and 2003.Results: Seven percent of the sample reported owning guns during the past 3 years. Recent gun owners were 7.8 times more likely than non-gun-owners to have threatened their partners with guns. Gun owners and non-gun-owners were equally likely to have threatened their partners with knives. Batterers reported using guns to threaten their partners in 4 ways, including 1) threatening to shoot them; 2) cleaning, holding, or loading a gun during an argument; 3) threatening to shoot a pet or person the victim cared about; and 4) shooting a gun during an argument with a victim. Identified risk markers for threatening an intimate partner with a gun included substance abuse, homicidal behavior, making knife threats, and gun ownership in the 3 years preceding assessment.Conclusion: Among batterers, owning a gun is highly correlated with using a gun to threaten an intimate partner. Legal restrictions that prohibit batterers from owning and possessing firearms should be enforced consistently. Detailed contextual information about the circumstances in which batterers use guns to threaten intimate partners and potential protective and risk factors relevant to firearm use by batterers should be explored.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"62-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26147306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Immigration policies increase south Asian immigrant women's vulnerability to intimate partner violence. 移民政策增加了南亚移民妇女遭受亲密伴侣暴力的脆弱性。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Anita Raj, Jay G Silverman, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Rosalyn Liu

{"title":"Immigration policies increase south Asian immigrant women's vulnerability to intimate partner violence.","authors":"Anita Raj, Jay G Silverman, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Rosalyn Liu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To explore forms of immigration-related partner abuse and examine the association of such abuse and immigration status with physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) among South Asian women residing in greater Boston.Method: Cross-sectional survey data on demographics,immigration status, immigration-related partner abuse, IPV, and health were collected from immigrant South Asian women currently in relationships with men (n=189). In-depth interviews were conducted with immigrant South Asian women with histories of IPV (n=23). The majority of women in both the quantitative and qualitative studies were Indian (96% and 65%), not US citizens (69% and 83%), and highly educated (48% and 39% reported postgraduate training). Logistic regression analyses adjusted for related demographics and 95% confidence intervals were used to assess quantitative data. Qualitative data were assessed via a grounded theory approach.Results: The odds of reporting IPV (23% of the sample)were higher for women who reported that their partners refused to change their immigration status (OR 7.8; CI 1.4, 44.6) or threatened them with deportation (OR 23.0; CI 4.5, 118.8) and for those on spousal dependent visas (OR 2.8; CI 1.1, 7.4) than they were for other women. Abused women interviewed also described how their partners used immigration laws prohibiting them from working or petitioning for status change to limit their autonomy.Conclusion: Immigration policies that prevent women on spousal visas from working and petitioning to change their status increase women's vulnerability to partner abuse. Such legal barriers may constitute human rights violations and should be reformed to protect immigrant battered women and their children.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"26-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26147308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of partner abuse on women's reproductive lives. 伴侣虐待对妇女生殖生活的影响。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Jeanne E Hathaway, Georgianna Willis, Bonnie Zimmer, Jay G Silverman

{"title":"Impact of partner abuse on women's reproductive lives.","authors":"Jeanne E Hathaway, Georgianna Willis, Bonnie Zimmer, Jay G Silverman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To increase our understanding of how intimate partner abuse may limit women's reproductive choices.Methods: Findings were obtained from a larger study involving interviews with 38 women participating in a hospital-based domestic violence program. We asked participants whether and in what ways their abusive partners had limited their ability to choose whether or not to have children. Content analysis was used to identify main themes.Results: Thirteen (34%) participants reported that partners had limited their ability to choose whether or not to have children. Seven of these women described tactics to try to get them to have children, and 7 reported being pressured or forced to have abortions (1 woman reported both). Two women underwent sterilization in response to the abuse. Four of the 13 women reported contradictory behaviors by their partners around family planning, such as not allowing birth control, then demanding that the participant terminate the pregnancy.Conclusion: Women described several ways in which their abusive partners controlled or attempted to control their reproductive lives that have received little or no prior attention. Further studies are needed to determine the prevalence and consequences of these behaviors, particularly the extent to which women in abusive relationships feel coerced into sterilization or abortion.","PeriodicalId":76028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)","volume":"60 1","pages":"42-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26147309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Increase in obstacles to abortion: the American perspective in 2004. 堕胎障碍增加:2004年美国人的观点。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2005-01-01

Martin Donohoe

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The transition from career to retirement: focus on well-being and financial considerations. 从职业到退休的过渡:关注幸福和经济方面的考虑。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2004-01-01

Adair R Heyl

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Causing panic: anxieties surrounding obstetrical care. 引起恐慌:围绕产科护理的焦虑。

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) Pub Date : 2004-01-01

Jolanda Turley

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