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Does Patient-Provider Gender Concordance Affect Mental Health Care Received by Primary Care Patients with Major Depression?
Detection and care of mental health and substance use problems for patients with depression is not influenced by patient-provider gender concordance.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes
Women with certain patterns of smoking from age 13-23 are at heightened risk for early transitions to sexual activity and parenthood.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
An Update on Adolescent Drug Use: What School Counselors Need to Know
School counselors need to have accurate and age-appropriate prevention education information in order to counsel teens on drug use.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Vaccinations in Nursing Homes Key to Reducing Influenza Outbreaks
Potentially deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes are less likely to occur when large numbers of staff and residents get flu shots. Nursing homes were 60 percent less likely to have an outbreak if more than 55 percent of the staff and more than 89 percent of the residents were vaccinated for influenza.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Talking Wellness: A Description of a Community-Academic Partnered Project to Engage an African-American Community Around Depression Through the Use of Poetry, Film, and Photography
The design, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of an enhanced community-engagement program that uses poetry, film, and photography at a film festival in south Los Angeles is described.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Troubled Cambodian Refugees Likely to Seek Help for Mental Health Problems
In a survey of Cambodian refugees in California, nearly 70 percent of those with mental health disorders sought medical help for emotional or psychological problems in the previous year, contradicting the common belief that Asians are less likely to seek mental health services.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
The Differential Impact of PTSD and Depression on HIV Disease Markers and Adherence to HAART in People Living with HIV
Despite high rates of comorbidity, research has typically focused on the independent impact of PTSD and depression symptoms in people living with HIV.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
Reemphasizing the Context of Women's Risk for HIV/AIDS in the United States
HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic that is increasingly affecting women on every continent.
Jul 1, 2005
Report
Improving Patient Safety in the U.S. Health Care System
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a mandate to help health care providers reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. To achieve these goals, AHRQ should create a national patient safety data repository, try to balance research and adoption activities, and more.
May 8, 2005
Journal Article
Racial Differences in the Treatment of Veterans with Bipolar Disorder
The authors examined whether African Americans, compared with whites, received guideline-concordant care for bipolar I disorder.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Dysplasia and Risk of Further Neoplastic Progression in a Regional Veterans Administration Barrett's Cohort
In a large cohort study of Barrett's, incident malignancy was uncommon.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Marijuana Use and Later Problems: When Frequency of Recent Use Explains Age of Initiation Effects (and When It Does Not)
Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are among the most commonly used drugs during adolescence.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use
Over the past several years, there has been growing interest in identifying distinct developmental trajectories of substance use.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Sexual Risk Among Injection Drug Users Recruited from Syringe Exchange Programs in California
The objective of this study was to examine correlates of sexual risk among injection drug users (IDUs).
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Correlates of Non-Problematic and Problematic Substance Use Among Depressed Adolescents in Primary Care
Substance use and related problems were assessed in a sample of primary care patients ages 13-21 who screened positive for depression.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Urologic Diseases in America Project: Analytical Methods and Principal Findings
Trends in epidemiology, practice patterns, resource utilization and costs for urological diseases have broad implications for quality of health care.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
The Association of Health-Related Quality of Life with Survival Among Persons with HIV Infection in the United States
Physical HRQOL added prognostic information over the sociodemographic and available clinical data such as CD4 count and stage of HIV infection.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Childhood Obesity: What We Can Learn from Existing Data on Societal Trends, Pt. 2
Number of overweight and obese youth has increased in recent decades, few data assess how lives of children have changed during the obesity epidemic
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Childhood Obesity: What We Can Learn from Existing Data on Societal Trends, Pt. 1
The number of overweight and obese youth has increased in recent decades, and numerous theories on causes have been proposed.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
A Longitudinal Analysis of Unmet Need for Oral Treatment in a National Sample of Medical HIV Patients
This longitudinal study examines perceived unmet dental need in a nationally representative probability sample of HIV-infected persons in medical care
Dec 31, 2004

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