Showing papers in "Public Health in 1999"

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TL;DR: A project, funded by the Department for International Development of the British Government, which aims to provide costed and evaluated treatment packages for use at primary health care level, methods and materials for evaluating the quality of non-communicable disease care, and a protocol for the assessment for national opportunities for the prevention of hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.

TL;DR: Education and intervention at this stage, particularly in relation to cigarette smoking, physical activity and certain aspects of diet appear justified as part of a preventative strategy for CHD.

TL;DR: Both research on causes and determinants of low back pain and the development of preventive actions--now being extensively focused on the working population--should also be translated to the non-working population.

TL;DR: District based data collection can be used to facilitate the development of priorities and a locally applicable safety agenda for children, and social deprivation, measured by Townsend score, of ward of residence was a powerful predictor of risk of attendance.

TL;DR: Both research on causes and determinants of low back pain and the development of preventive actions--now being extensively focused on the working population--should also be translated to the non-working population.

TL;DR: The results of the study reconfirm the importance of environmental health intervention in child survival, irrespective of breast-feeding, immunization, and selected social variables.

TL;DR: Representativeness and conservative bias, it is argued, justify the use of these data for investigating life course influences on health in early old age.

TL;DR: Follow-up to investigate the relationship between indices of health and development, (height, weight, blood pressure), health behaviours and social circumstances in childhood and young adulthood, and mortality and morbidity in later adulthood is under way.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that labouring at a young age has a deleterious effect on the growth of the child.

TL;DR: Univariate analysis revealed that adverse pregnancy outcomes were associated with maternal betel quid chewing, maternal illness during pregnancy, and the number of pregnancies (gravidity) experienced.

TL;DR: All 17330 Accident and Emergency Department attendances following injury (67% of all A and E attendances by residents of the EH54 postcode at St John's Hospital during 1995 and 1996 were examined to study local accident epidemiology.

TL;DR: The environmental and epidemiological investigations both confirmed the risk of infection, mainly associated with the contamination of surfaces, among bathers and controls in Bologna.

TL;DR: The high proportion of new clients who reported having a disability suggested that a health centre setting may be particularly accessible for those reporting disability, and the advice service increased the uptake of social security benefits in 15% of all new attendees.

TL;DR: The prevalence of xerophthalmia was found to be decreasing as the score of usual pattern of food consumption (UPF) increased, whereas, those consuming vitamin A equal to a UPF score greater than 120 were at comparatively less risk despite being below the recommended levels.

TL;DR: This is the first study to report large differences in blood lipids, obesity and abdominal obesity after adjustment for socioeconomic status between Bosnian and Swedish women.

TL;DR: The situation in the Sindh province of Pakistan is examined, which is recognized as having the sole fully functioning AIDS prevention and control programme in the country, to highlight progress made as well as gaps in data and surveillance.

TL;DR: Sherry Glied as mentioned in this paper argues that the United States can afford more health care, since the overall level of health care costs is not the main issue, but the distribution of the health care spending.

TL;DR: People liviing in more affluent neighbourhoods have had the benefit of most of the last decade's decline in CHD mortality, and the mortality ratios for the most deprived neighbourhoods were almost three times higher than those of the most affluent areas.

TL;DR: The association between breastfeeding and diarrhoeal morbidity was examined in a prevalence study of 5502 children aged 6-71 months from rural and urban Bangladesh and it was found that breastfeeding was found to be associated with reduced prevalence of diarrhoea.

TL;DR: Women's higher education was found to be one of the important determinants related to childhood diarrhoea, and Religion and ownership of land also appeared to be important factors affecting the incidence of diarrhoeas in early childhood.

TL;DR: Risk of stillbirths was increased among those who had abused illegal drugs during pregnancy, those who reported that the pregnancy was unwanted and those with Thalassemia trait.

TL;DR: The Health Belief Model appears to be an appropriate framework to the determinants of compliance with the recommendation to visit a doctor during mass screening for risk factors of cardiovascular diseases.

TL;DR: Various risk groups, showing low attendance or a high percentage of positive smears, are clustered in neighbourhoods and can be identified by socio-economic status, marital status and nationality.

TL;DR: The C:B ratio does appear to have validity as an indicator of good prescribing in primary care when measured in defined daily doses, perhaps because the study was longitudinal and the ratio assessed accurately in terms of volume rather than prescription items.

TL;DR: Though insufficient in absolute terms, a measurable increase in ELM accuracy can be achieved even with intense training sessions of short duration.

TL;DR: The high prevalence of behaviour disorders in Dhaka city primary school children suggest that a mental health care programme for these children comprising screening and, if indicated, full evaluation and expert care would be worthwhile.

TL;DR: This study shows that a community financing scheme for local ivermectin distribution will not be inequitable, since enough funds will be realised from well-to-do community members to cover the costs for those who are unable to pay.