United States Public Health Service
Mostrando 13-20 de 20 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Providing health information to the general public: a survey of current practices in academic health sciences libraries*
A questionnaire was mailed to 148 publicly and privately supported academic health sciences libraries affiliated with Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)–accredited medical schools in the United States and Canada to determine level of access and services provided to the general public. For purposes of this study, “general public” was define
Medical Library Association.
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14. Controversies in measles immunization recommendations.
Controversy in medicine is inevitable, but it becomes problematic when the issue is a serious public health problem requiring a clear plan of action. In recent years measles has made a major resurgence in this country, with provisional figures showing 89 measles-related deaths in 1990. The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee of the US Public Health Ser
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15. Silicosis in surface coalmine drillers.
Surface coalminers are generally thought to be at minimal risk of developing pneumoconiosis. Biopsy-proved silicoproteinosis was found in a 34-year-old surface coalmine driller, and two of nine other drill crew members who worked for the same company had chest radiographic findings compatible with simple silicosis. Reanalysis of data from a previous United S
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16. The CDC-CDCR Documentation Project
A progress report on an experiment in mechanized methods for the storage and retrieval of communicable diseases information. The project, supported by National Institutes of Health grants and begun in 1958, is being conducted by the Center for Documentation and Communication Research (CDCR), School of Library Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O
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17. Venereal diseases in the islands of the North Pacific.
Apart from the Japanese islands, and those of Karabati (lately Gilbert Islands), which lie just north of the equator, the islands of the northern Pacific Ocean are either American owned or otherwise administered. Even the Japanese islands were controlled by the USA for varying numbers of years after the second world war. Venereal disease statistics from Guam
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18. Correlation between in vitro antimicrobial susceptibilities and beta-lactamase plasmid contents of isolates of Haemophilus ducreyi from the United States.
We determined the susceptibilities of 94 strains of Haemophilus ducreyi isolated in various municipalities in the United States between 1982 and 1989 to the following antimicrobial agents: amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, trimethoprim, and spectinomycin. Ceftriaxone (MIC, less than or equal to 0.
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19. Utilization of specialty mental health care among persons with severe mental illness: the roles of demographics, need, insurance, and risk.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the sociodemographic, need, risk, and insurance characteristics of persons with severe mental illness and the importance of these characteristics for predicting specialty mental health utilization among this group. DATA SOURCE: The Healthcare for Communities survey, a national study that tracks alcohol, drug, and mental health services
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20. Detection of West Nile Virus (WNV)-Specific Immunoglobulin M in a Reference Laboratory Setting during the 2002 WNV Season in the United States
Between 1 June and 31 December 2002, 30,677 serum samples and 4,554 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were tested for West Nile virus (WNV)-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) by an in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); 1,481 serum samples (4.8%) and 345 CSF samples (7.6%) were positive for WNV IgM. Positive samples were forwarded to public health
American Society for Microbiology.