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Validity of Adolescents' Report of Maternal Age
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-12)
Examined the validity of adolescents' reports of their mother's age. Most research on the validity of self-report focuses on personal behaviors such as alcohol and substance use, or response bias due to social desirability. ...
Prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in south-central Durban, South Africa
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-09)
The prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in south-central Durban, one of the most heavily polluted areas of South Africa, has been determined using a cross-sectional survey of 213 households in the communities of ...
Communication within low income families and the management of asthma
(Elsevier, 1990-04)
This study examines the effects of communication between low income urban parents and children about a chronic disease on the extent to which parent and child effectively manage the illness. Four asthma communication factors ...
Mechanistic steps in the photoreduction of mercury in natural waters
(Elsevier, 1994-09-01)
Elemental mercury accounts for 10-50% of the dissolved mercury in lakes but plays a vital role in the cycling of this element in lacustrine environments. The view is advanced that a large fraction of the Hg(0) is generated ...
Life-style and substance use among male African American urban adolescents: A cluster analytic approach
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-02)
Tracking Substance Abusers in Longitudinal Research: Understanding Follow-Up Contact Difficulty
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-04)
Studies examining follow-up contact difficulty provide useful information for planning longitudinal studies and for assessing the validity of follow-up data. Contact difficulty was examined among 96 substance abusers ...
Historical trends of airborne trace metals in Detroit from 1971 to 1992
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-03)
Ambient concentrations of particulate Fe, Zn, Ph, Ni, Cr, Cd and Hg were measured at nine sites located in the metropolitan area of Detroit from 1971 to 1992. The ambient concentrations of all the trace metals were found ...
Small area analysis of hospital discharges for musculoskeletal diseases in Michigan: The influence of socioeconomic factors,
(Elsevier, 1991-08)
The rise in health care costs has occasioned a number of initiatives in an attempt to reduce the rate of increase. Despite the growth of health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations and the ...
Epidemiology of endometrial neoplasia
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1995)
Though among U.S. women endometrial cancer is the most common invasive gynecological cancer, it has a relatively favorable prognosis. From 1986–1990, approximately 19% of U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results ...