Change in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Ecosocial Epidemiology: Modern Trends in Preventive Medicine

ECOSOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: MODERN TRENDS IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (Abstract) Each of the structural factors of the environment, national and social, interact with each other within the human ecosystem. The dynamic ecosystem changes and transformations determine the natu re of the effect on the structures and functions of human body. Knowledge of these ecosystem-derived effect and their sanogenetic o...

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Another Tale of Two Guidelines

Jon P. Furuno, James H. Maguire, Heather P. Green, Judith A. Johnson, Robert Heimer, Stephanie P. Johnston, Christopher R. Braden, Stephen C. Edberg, Susan Bell, and Jon Mark Hirshon Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Epidemiology a...

Preventive Medicine

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...

Preventive Medicine

Background. African Americans have low immunization rates, yet little is known about their immunization knowledge, attitudes, and practices or about the effect of outreach to this audience. In Spring 1997, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) launched a statewide culturally sensitive and ethnically specific media campaign directed toward African Americans. This campaign was prece...

Preventive Medicine