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Dental Care for Children/trends , Health Promotion/trends , Oral Health , Adolescent , Child , Child Welfare , Community Health Services , Comprehensive Health Care , Forecasting , Health Services Accessibility , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Infant , Preventive Dentistry/trendsSubject(s)
Allied Health Personnel , Health Policy , Legislation as Topic , Policy Making , Hispanic or Latino , Humans , Puerto Rico/ethnology , United StatesSubject(s)
Humans , Allied Health Personnel , Health Policy , Legislation , Policy Making , Hispanic or Latino , Puerto Rico/ethnology , United StatesSubject(s)
Allied Health Personnel , Delivery of Health Care/trends , United States Health Resources and Services Administration , Academic Medical Centers/organization & administration , Allied Health Personnel/economics , Allied Health Personnel/education , Health Care Reform , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
This paper discusses the efforts of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to work with a broad constituency to combat and ultimately prevent family violence. In partnership with states and communities, HRSA implements programs to strengthen health care infrastructure, support direct community-based service delivery, and educate health care providers. Soliciting and incorporating community input are critical steps in designing innovative training approaches to deal with pressing health concerns, such as the efforts of family violence in a community. This type of collaboration is evident in HRSA's programs such as the Area Health Education Centers, the Geriatric Education Centers, and the AIDS Education and Training Centers. Health care delivery systems and special health interventions must respond to the far-reaching effects of family violence. HRSA is devising a comprehensive strategy to guide program development in violence intervention. This strategy would build on successful models of education, prevention, and service delivery, as well as identification of critical areas for collaboration between community activists, researchers, epidemiologists, health care providers, policymakers, academicians, survivors, philanthropists, representatives from state and local government, and the faith community.
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Domestic Violence/prevention & control , United States Health Resources and Services Administration , Humans , United StatesSubject(s)
Dental Care , Oral Health , Child , Community Dentistry , Delivery of Health Care , Dental Care for Children , Health Promotion , Humans , Maternal-Child Health Centers , Medically Underserved Area , Primary Health Care , Public Health Dentistry , United States , United States Health Resources and Services AdministrationSubject(s)
Infant, Newborn , Length of Stay , Patient Discharge , Adult , Humans , Mothers , Obstetrics , Time FactorsSubject(s)
Child Welfare , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & control , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Communicable Disease Control , Ethnicity , Female , Health Education , Health Promotion , Health Services Accessibility , Humans , Infant , Male , Pediatrics , Public Health/standards , Sex Education , Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & control , Texas , United States , Vaccination , WorkforceSubject(s)
Herpesviridae Infections , Herpesvirus 4, Human , von Willebrand Diseases , Child , Female , HumansABSTRACT
A familial lymphoproliferative disorder presented in three male siblings with primary pulmonary involvement manifested as either lymphoid interstitial pneumonia or an angiodestructive polymorphous infiltrate morphologically resembling lymphomatoid granulomatosis. The polymorphous infiltrate consisted chiefly of mature T-cells with a few B-cells and plasma cells, and gene rearrangement studies failed to show clonality. Epstein-Barr virus, frequently associated with proliferative lesions in males in the X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome, was not demonstrated in any of the pulmonary lesions. An HLA haplotype shared among the affected siblings was A1, B8, DR4. The unusual clinical presentation plus the lack of involvement by EBV in the pulmonary lesions suggests that this is a previously undescribed familial lymphoproliferative disorder.
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Lung Diseases/complications , Lymphoproliferative Disorders/genetics , Adolescent , Antibodies, Viral/analysis , Child , Female , HLA Antigens/analysis , Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology , Humans , Infectious Mononucleosis/complications , Lung/diagnostic imaging , Lung/pathology , Lung Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Lung Diseases/pathology , Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis/complications , Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis/diagnostic imaging , Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis/pathology , Lymphoproliferative Disorders/complications , Lymphoproliferative Disorders/immunology , Lymphoproliferative Disorders/microbiology , Male , Pulmonary Fibrosis/complications , Pulmonary Fibrosis/diagnostic imaging , Pulmonary Fibrosis/pathology , RadiographySubject(s)
Infectious Mononucleosis/immunology , Measles Vaccine/administration & dosage , Mumps Vaccine/administration & dosage , Rubella Vaccine/administration & dosage , Vaccines, Attenuated/administration & dosage , Adolescent , Child , Drug Combinations , Humans , Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Current data indicate that there are a number of infectious diseases, ie, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus infections, cysticercosis, hepatitis A, syphilis, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever, among others that cause disproportionately increased morbidity in Hispanics. The greater rate of poverty with its associated socioenvironmental problems, increased barriers to health care, and importation of infectious diseases endemic in the mother country are some of the major reasons that probably account for this disparity in disease burden in Hispanics. This formidable health problem can be addressed by targeting efforts at improving health education of family units and communities, environmental improvements, elimination or reduction of barriers to health care management and disease prevention, and appropriate screening programs. A comprehensive and uniform assessment of the impact of infectious diseases on Hispanics (and other minorities) in this country remains elusive, but is of paramount importance in establishing priorities and effective/efficient strategies to address this issue.
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Communicable Diseases/ethnology , Hispanic or Latino/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Child , Communicable Disease Control/methods , Female , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that detects IgM antibody to a peptide component of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen (EBNA-1) was compared with a conventional rapid heterophil antibody method for the rapid diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis. Discrepancies between the two methods were further analyzed using an indirect immunofluorescence assay to detect antibodies to EBV antigens. We evaluated 298 cases of suspected infectious mononucleosis. The ELISA was very sensitive (98.7%) and able to detect some cases (seven (9%) of 75 confirmed positives) that were negative by the rapid heterophil antibody test, but confirmed by immunofluorescence. However, approximately 17% of all positive tests could not be confirmed by EBV-specific immunofluorescence; thus, the overall positive predictive value was 83%; negative predictive value was 99.5%; and specificity was 93%. The high rate of false-positive tests makes this rapid ELISA unsuitable for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis.