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Impact of Public Reporting on Quality of Postacute Care
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-08)
Evidence supporting the use of public reporting of quality information to improve health care quality is mixed. While public reporting may improve reported quality, its effect on quality of care more broadly is uncertain. ...
Thai elderly who do not coreside with their children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-01)
In this paper, data from a nationally representative survey of elderly Thais living in private households are analyzed. The analysis focuses on situations of the 756 elderly who do not coreside with an adult child. Only a ...
Effects of School-Level Norms on Student Substance Use
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
This study examines the relationship between school norms of substance use disapproval (disapproval by the student body) and students' use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. Data came from nationally representative ...
A Conceptual Framework for Adaptive Preventive Interventions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-09)
Recently, adaptive interventions have emerged as a new perspective on prevention and treatment. Adaptive interventions resemble clinical practice in that different dosages of certain prevention or treatment components are ...
National Estimates of the Quantity and Cost of Informal Caregiving for the Elderly with Dementia *
(Blackwell Science Inc, 2001-11)
Caring for the elderly with dementia imposes a substantial burden on family members and likely accounts for more than half of the total cost of dementia for those living in the community. However, most past estimates of ...
Factors facilitating adjustment to unemployment: Implications for intervention
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-08)
Racial and Ethnic Variations in Knowledge and Attitudes about Genetic Testing
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2004-04-01)
This study was designed to shed light on whether differences in utilization of genetic testing by African-Americans, Latinos, and non-Hispanic Whites are due primarily to different preferences, or whether they instead ...
Relationship of serum sex-steroid hormones and prostate volume in African American men
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-12-01)
BACKGROUND Previous epidemiologic investigations of the associations of sex-steroid hormones and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) have focused on predominately white populations. The objective of this study was to ...