{"title":"Premarital HAI screening for rubella antibodies.","authors":"J Zackler, H G Orbach, S H Rubenstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1937189/pdf/hsmhahr00011-0052.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16227061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diabetes mellitus among the Florida Seminoles.","authors":"D N Westfall, A L Rosenbloom","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1937190/pdf/hsmhahr00011-0085.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16227066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Premarital HAI screening for rubella antibodies.","authors":"J. Zackler, H. Orbach, S. Rubenstein","doi":"10.2307/4594370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4594370","url":null,"abstract":"IN response to the increased public awareness of German measles and the introduction of an effective vaccine, the Chicago Board of Health in April 1970 implemented a program of continuing serologic surveillance of a premarital female population whose serum samples are submitted for the routine VDRL test for syphilis. The decision to initiate this program was determined after the statistically significant results of a survey of rubella antibody titers in women planning to be married, men, and children of both sexes were evaluated. The results of the profile study indi-","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4594370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69132081","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}
{"title":"A multidisciplinary social casework center with a staff psychiatrist.","authors":"J. Ebie","doi":"10.2307/4594312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4594312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4594312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69131457","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}
{"title":"Patient assessment, an essential tool in placement and planning of care.","authors":"C. Ryder, W. F. Elkin, D. Doten","doi":"10.2307/4594335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4594335","url":null,"abstract":"THE importance of assessing patients' needs has been receiving increasing attention in recent years within the spectrum of health services. On January 12 and 13, 1965, an ad hoc conference on patient evaluation was held in Warrenton, Va., sponsored by the Public Health Service's Division of Chronic Diseases. The 25 experts participating in the discussion (representing universities, care service programs, State and local health departments, and the Federal Govern-","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4594335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69132054","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}
{"title":"A risk-adjustment technique for comparing prematurity rates among clinic populations.","authors":"R. Hebel, G. Entwisle, M. Tayback","doi":"10.2307/4594338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4594338","url":null,"abstract":"RISK characteristics often vary appreciably from one clinic population to another so that comparison of the effectiveness of a health program among these populations is difficult. Failure to take such differences into consideration can lead to serious errors in the interpretation of patients' performance. Although a health program would be expected to affect the measures of outcome which reflect patients' performance, there are usually other factors asscc1ated with populations of patients which also alter outcome. We shall refer to these concomitant sources of outcome variability as risk factors. A statistical treatment of outcome data which will account for the risk factors is highly desirable. Several techniques may be used to adjust for the risk factors. A sophisticated statistical procedure, such as analysis of covariance, is sometimes used for this purpose. By analysis of covariance, one can isolate and measure the effect of each possible source of outcome variability which is identified. Although this method is a powerful means of controlling for the concomitant variables, it has the disadvantage of being computationally complex (usually requiring a computer) and is dependent on the specification of an appropriate mathematical model. A rigorous discussion of analysis of covariance is given by Cochran (I) . Alternatively, an intuitive method is often applied, in which the groups to be compared are stratified according to the concomitant variables and comparisons are made only within similar strata. Although this approach is straightforward computationally, interpretation of the results is complicated because a separate set of comparisons The authors are in the department of preventive medicine and rehabilitation, University of Maryland School of Med:cine. Dr. Hebel is an associate professor of biostatistics, Dr. Tayback is a pro fessor of biostatihlics, and Dr. Entwisle is chairman of the department. The work described was supported by Public Health Service Grant No. Ph700. Tearsheet requests to Dr. Richard Hebel, Department of Preventive Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. 21201.","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4594338","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69132202","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}
{"title":"Evaluative study of two versions of a seminar on mind-affecting drugs.","authors":"N Parlette, G Hutton, M Rosen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1937227/pdf/hsmhahr00010-0081.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15218743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health helpers in Erie County, N.Y.","authors":"E B Montgomery","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1937223/pdf/hsmhahr00010-0027.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16221914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dentist's role and patients' expectations.","authors":"R M O'Shea, A E Fusillo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1937226/pdf/hsmhahr00010-0063.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16221917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Yamaguchi, H. Matsumoto, S. Matsuo, S. Kaku, M. Hoshide
{"title":"Relationship between mercury content of hair and amount of fish consumed.","authors":"S. Yamaguchi, H. Matsumoto, S. Matsuo, S. Kaku, M. Hoshide","doi":"10.2307/4594332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4594332","url":null,"abstract":"A GREATER amount of mercury has been found in the scalp hair of the Japanese than in the scalp hair of Americans living either in Japan or in the United States (1). The reason has been attributed to the abnormal exposure of the Japanese to mercurial pesticides used for agricultural purposes. Recent investigations to determine the amount of mercury in human scalp hair have suggested a positive correlation with the intake of alkylmercury compound in foods (2, 3). Several observations on the amount of methylmercury in marine products also have been reported (4, 5). Consequently, arguments concerning the allowable concentration of mercury in foods have arisen (6). While extensive studies of the amount of mercury in marine products have not yet been reported, data on the mercury content of a limited number of species of fish and shellfish eaten by the Japanese are given in table 1. We have attempted to study how the mercury compound in marine products influences mercury metabolism in the bodies of persons living in different environments who have different food habits. The design of the study was influenced by the following premises. 1. The mercury content of scalp hair will increase according to the intake of methylmercury compounds (2). 2. Fish caught in an area where alkylmercury compounds are known to pollute the water contain a large amount of mercury (7); 40 to 90 percent of the fish's total mercury content is composed of methylmercury compound. 3. It is recognized that fish caught in unpolluted natural waters contain a certain amount of methylmercury compound. The amount fluctuates according to the size and age of the fish and as yet undetermined biological characteristics of fish.","PeriodicalId":78306,"journal":{"name":"HSMHA health reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4594332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69131995","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}