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Social patterns and pathways of HIV care among HIV-positive transgender women
Transgender women have the highest HIV prevalence rates of all gender and sexual minorities, yet are less likely to enter and be retained in HIV care. As a result, they are at high risk for HIV-related morbidity and ...
Evaluation of an alternative prenatal care visit schedule for low-risk pregnant women
While the current prenatal visit schedule is widely accepted as providing the highest quality prenatal care and followed by health care practitioners in this country and abroad, it is not based on sound scientific evidence. ...
Antecedents of three-year-old child health status
This study sought to assess a set of factors that were proposed to influence child health status at 3 years of age. The sample $(N=4940)$ was drawn from the 1988 National Maternal Infant Health Survey and the 1991 Longitudinal ...
Analysis and observation of the concept of community health
The concept of community health has varying meanings for those in different professional disciplines and for community residents. The aim of this study was to analyze this concept using Rodger's Evolutionary Method of ...
Theory, reality, survival: An organizational analysis of a nurse-managed neighborhood health center
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the development of Erie Family Health Center as a nurse-managed, community health center. Analysis focuses on those factors within the organization itself and in the ...
El corazon de la cebolla: A mini-ethnographic study of Mexicana/o symptom interpretation and management
The purpose of this urban mini-ethnographic qualitative study was to examine Mexicana/o symptom interpretation and management utilizing the Common Sense Model of Illness Representation as a guiding framework. Latina/os are ...
Culture care values, beliefs and practices observed in empowerment of American Indian community health representatives
The World Health Organization (WHO) primary health care model emphasizes intervention at the home and family level, partnerships with the community, collaboration with lay community health workers, and prevention. Thus, ...
The lived experience of the primary family caregiver for a person with head and neck cancer
Family caregivers are crucial persons in the successful rehabilitation of persons with head and neck cancer, as they are often providing needed physical and emotional care that these persons will require. Caregiving for a ...
Psychoimmunological outcomes of a dementia caregiver intervention: The progressively lowered stress threshold
The goal of this study was to evaluate mood and immune outcomes of a community-based psychoeducational intervention (the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold, PLST Model) designed to teach family caregivers to manage ...
Problem behaviors in the male partners of adolescent mothers: A comparison of age-discrepant and age-consistent relationships
Adolescent girls in relationships with adult males are more likely to become parents than those involved with adolescent males. Studies are few and limited by confounding socioeconomic characteristics and considerable ...