SELECTED SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND MEDICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMIPAROUS 12–16-YEAR-OLD GIRLS (NEWBURGH, NEW YORK)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-401
Author(s):  
J. Philip Keeve
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
School Age ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Life Education

The fertility rate of a school-age population-at-risk in a community of moderate size (Newburgh, New York, and environs) based on hospital records for the period 1959-1963 appears to be stable at approximately 10% of 12-16-year-old girls. A detailed review of academic and medical records confirms the sociomedical and educational profile previously documented by others, and shows no unique conformation characteristic of the community nor did an individual predictive profile emerge which might make this population especially identifiable for screening or prevention programs. It is hoped that community attitudes toward social and economic poverty can be altered enough to cease punitive measures such as withholding education and public assistance from these girls. These approaches appear to be an organized escape-into-ignorance behavioral pattern whereby the community prohibits hospital-based family-planning clinics or any teaching resembling sex education in the schools, fearing that these activities may be interpreted as sanctioning and encouraging illegitimacy. Surely the time has come to re-evaluate our public education and health practices toward a problem inexorably linked to population growth and increasing public-health education. More knowledge is needed regarding dating and supervision of teen-agers. This study does indicate that the potentially pregnant school-age girl tends not to participate in organized extracurricular activities, so that community efforts to supply "family-life" education through girls' clubs, neighborhood and church groups, Y.W.C.A., and similar organizations will fail to attract the very population it is designed to reach. The school must prepare to accept this role realistically since informal educational experience does not meet the needs of these girls.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-361
Author(s):  
PAUL HARPER
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Health Services ◽  
School Health ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
School Age ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Commonwealth Fund ◽  
Health Officer ◽  
The University

THE problem of health services for children of school age is particularly timely in view of current interest in such services. The editors of this column have asked several authorities in this field to state their opinion of the objectives of a school health service and to describe practical methods of attaining these goals. The first two letters in the current issue deal with this subject; other letters on health services for children of school age will be published in subsequent issues. Dr. James L. Wilson is professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan; Dr. Jessie M. Bierman is professor of maternal and child health at the University of California School of Public Health; and Dr. Dorothy B. Nyswander is professor of Public Health Education in the same school, and the author of "Solving School Health Problems, the Astoria Demonstration Study," the Commonwealth Fund, 1942. The last two letters are from Dr. Albert D. Kaiser, health officer of Rochester, New York. Dr. Kaiser has described the program of the Council of Rochester Regional Hospitals for improving medical care in the 11 counties served by the member hospitals in the June issue of this column. His first letter in this issue describes how these services might be extended if additional funds were available. His second communication serves to make clear what was meant by "institutes conducted for . . . governing boards" as described in the eighth paragraph of his first letter.

School-Age Coping: Themes Across Three Generations of Sexual Minorities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Simons ◽  
Melissa Ramdas ◽  
Stephen T. Russell
Keyword(s):  
School Counselors ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Sexual Minority Youth ◽  
Helping Professionals ◽  
School Age ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
At Risk Student ◽  
Minority People

Sexual minority youth (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer) are at-risk student population, and school counselors are responsible for helping them cope in a heterosexist society. This article reports the qualitative findings of a study that examined the process of coping during the school-age years among 81 sexual minority people. Data were collected across three cohorts of participants (a Marriage Equality cohort, an HIV/AIDS epidemic cohort, and a Stonewall Rebellion cohort). The authors identified five themes across all cohorts from the interviews: influence of relationships; experiencing emotions; coming out; actions to cope with being a sexual minority, including involvement in extracurricular activities; and cognitive coping (younger participants). Implications for school counseling practice and research are provided for educators, researchers, and helping professionals.

Sex Education, the School-Age Child and the Physician

1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 656-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evalyn S. Gendel
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
School Age

scholarly journals Characteristics of patients with acute heart failure in North Central Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-235
Author(s):  
J.A. Ogunmodede ◽  
P.M. Kolo ◽  
M.O. Bojuwoye ◽  
B.F. Dele-Ojo ◽  
A.J. Ogunmodede ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
New York ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Aetiological Factor ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Early Presentation ◽  
North Central ◽  
Sub Saharan

Objectives: Heart failure (HF) is an important cause of hospital admission in Nigeria. HF is increasingly prevalent because the population is aging and HF epidemiology is changing. We aimed at profiling the socio-demographic, clinical and echocardiographic (Echo)  characteristics of patients admitted for acute HF. This is one of the largest cohorts of HF patients profiled in Nigeria so far. Methods: Cross sectional design. Socio-demographic, clinical and Echo data were collected from 455 patients admitted for AHF at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, North central, Nigeria. Results: Mean age of patients was 58.9± 15.7years, (men were older than women, P= 0.006). 265(58.2%) were males, most patients were aged >60 years, 4.8% had pre-existing Type2 Diabetes mellitus. 53.2% of patients presented in New York Heart Association Stages III and IV. Median duration of admission was 11days (IQR, 6-17), intrahospital mortality- 11.6%. Hypertension was the commonest aetiological factor (62.4%), followed by dilated cardiomyopathy 17.6%, rheumatic heart disease (6.6%), Peripartum cardiomyopathy (5.3%), and others. Conclusion: AHF patients in our study are older than those in previous studies in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Hypertension is main driver of AHF, and patients largely present with clinically advanced disease necessitating stronger public health education about risk factors and early presentation.  

scholarly journals Completeness of Pediatric TB Reporting in New York City

2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo San Gabriel ◽  
Lisa Saiman ◽  
Katherine Kaye ◽  
Muriel Silin ◽  
Ida Onorato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Gastric Aspirate ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Recent Transmission ◽  
Pediatric Tb ◽  
Completeness Of Reporting

Objectives. Accurate surveillance of tuberculosis (TB) in children is critical because such cases represent recent transmission, but surveillance is difficult as only 10% to 50% of cases are culture-confirmed. Hospital-based sources were used to develop alternative surveillance to assess completeness of reporting for pediatric TB in northern Manhattan and Harlem from 1993 through 1995. Methods. Alternative surveillance sources included ICD-9-CM hospital discharge codes for active TB and gastric aspirate reports. Cases identified by alternative surveillance were compared with cases previously reported to the New York City Department of Health (NYC DOH). Results. Alternative surveillance detected 25 cases of possible pediatric TB, of which four (16%) had never been reported to the NYC DOH and three (12%) had been reported as suspect cases, but had not fulfilled the criteria for a reportable case of pediatric TB. Of these seven newly counted cases, three were detected by ICD-9-CM codes, three by a gastric aspirate log book, and one by both. In contrast, 13 other cases had been reported to the NYC DOH, but were undetected by our alternative surveillance; eight of these could be verified with available medical records. Thus, the demographic and clinical characteristics of the 25 detected and the eight undetected cases with available medical records were evaluated in this study. Conclusions. Alternative surveillance proved effective, was complementary to the NYC DOH surveillance efforts, and increased the number of pediatric TB cases identified during the study period by 21%.

Prescribing Conventional Antipsychotics at Two Veterans Administration Hospitals: Are There Geographical Differences?

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 894-896
Author(s):  
Prakash S. Masand ◽  
Monica Arora ◽  
Thomas L. Schwartz ◽  
Anil Sharma ◽  
Xiaohong Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Alternative Therapies ◽  
Veterans Administration ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Conventional Antipsychotics ◽  
Geographic Differences

AbstractThe medical records of 110 patients receiving conventional antipsychotics at two geographically distinct Veterans Administration hospitals (Syracuse, New York and Omaha, Nebraska) were reviewed. The most common reasons for continuation of conventional antipsychotics were good response and patient or physician choice. Frequently, physicians did not discuss the reasons for continuing conventional antipsychotics or the availability of alternative therapies with their patients. Geographic differences in physicians' prescribing practices of conventional antipsychotics were apparent.

Feet first. A commentary

1994 ◽  
Vol 84 (7) ◽  
pp. 334-337
Author(s):  
AE Helfand
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Foot Health ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Subject

In 1989, the Board of Directors of the Professional Diabetes Academy, Pennsylvania Diabetes Academy endorsed the concept to revise Feet First, published in 1970, and gained the permission of the US Public Health Service to use the initial document as a base. With marked expansion, added color, nonreflective paper, and larger print, Feet First was published in 1991, and introduced to the podiatric profession during the Annual Meeting of the American Podiatric Medical Association in New York. The concept of need expressed by the late Glen W. McDonald, MD, and the late Seward P. Nyman, DPM, to see a melding of public health education and podiatric medicine has brought new meaning to the subject and provided an interdisciplinary approach to foot health education for the diabetic patient.

Teaching Younger Schoolchildren to Heuristic Methods for Solving Creative Problems in the Course of Extracurricular Activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Т. Малинкина ◽  
T. Malinkina ◽  
Е. Соловьева ◽  
E. Solov'eva
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Heuristic Methods ◽  
School Age ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Program Approach ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Primary School Age

The article reveals the features of teaching younger schoolchildren to heuristic methods for solving creative problems using elements of the “Theory of Inventive Problem Solving” technology implemented in the process of extracurricular activities. The program approach to the organization of circle work of the general intellectual direction, focused on the development of creative abilities of children of primary school age in extracurricular time is considered. As a research method, the authors used an experimental experiment, including the diagnosis of the creative potential of pupils of primary school age.

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