During 1992 and 1993, in a designated suburban area of Perth, Western Australia, information on hereditary disease was provided for health professionals and the general community. This information was in the form of posters, pamphlets, postal flyers and return letter cards, a static display, newspaper articles, advertisements and radio broadcasts, and professional seminars. The aim of this proj...

AIMS The purpose of the present study was to find out how well the alcohol questionnaire, AUDIT, as part of a wide community action was noticed, and if it had any effects especially among heavy drinkers. METHODS As part of local community action campaign ('Booze Weeks'), the AUDIT pamphlet was delivered to all households (90,000) in Tampere, Finland, and 500 randomly selected inhabitants were...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate coverage by the Prenatal and Birth Humanization Program, according to its minimal requirements and process indicators, by comparing information from prenatal booklets to SISPRENATAL (System to Accompany the Prenatal and Birth Humanization Program). METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out with prenatal data from 1,489 women in the postpartum period after birth in ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: regular exercise has been associated with improved quality of life (qol) in patients with heart failure (hf). however, less is known on the theoretical framework, depicting how educational intervention on psychological, social, and cognitive variables affects physical activity (pa). the purpose of this study is to assess the effectivenes...

Helping the large number of problem drinkers who will never seek treatment is a challenging issue. Public health initiatives employing educational materials or mass media campaigns have met with mixed success. However, clinical research has developed effective brief interventions to help problem drinkers. This project employed an intervention that has been validated in clinical settings and the...

OBJECTIVES This study's objective was to assess patient nutrition inquiries and related physician resources to identify the nutrition topics about which physicians most need information for patients and practice. METHODS A survey was mailed to a 50% random sample of Washington Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP) members (n=778) to identify the top 10 patient nutrition inquiries that the physi...

BACKGROUND Recent media reports on human studies associating brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in household products in pregnancy with urogenital anomalies in boys and endocrine disruption in both sexes. We sought to explore the perceptions of pregnant women of brominated flame retardant (BFR) exposure, in light of recent media reports on the adverse health effects of BFR exposure prenatally. ...