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The STARPAHC collection: part of an archive of the history of telemedicine.
J Telemed Telecare
March 2008
Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA.
An early telemedicine project involving NASA, the Papago Tribe (now the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation), the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, the Indian Health Service and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare explored the possibilities of using technology to provide improved health care to a remote population in southern Arizona. The project, called STARPAHC (Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care), took place in the 1970s and demonstrated the feasibility of a consortium of public and private partners working together to provide medical care to remote populations via telecommunication. In 2001 the Arizona Health Sciences Library acquired important archival materials documenting the STARPAHC project and in collaboration with the Arizona Telemedicine Program established the Arizona Archive of Telemedicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Telemedicine Anáhuac. Educational system and health promotion activities].
Cir Cir
June 2006
Programa de Telemedicina Anáhuac, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Anáhuac, Av. Universidad Anáhuac s/n, Col. Lomas Anáhuac, Huixquilucan, 52786 Estado de México.
Rural telemedicine began in the 1950s in the Papago, Arizona Reservation with the program Starphac. The Anáhuac University began the program in 2002. In the Anáhuac, the project was developed to provide specialty consultations in a virtual way to a highly marginalized population, creating clinical fields of high technology and fulfilling social obligations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAd libitum food intake on a "cafeteria diet" in Native American women: relations with body composition and 24-h energy expenditure.
Am J Clin Nutr
November 1995
Clinical Diabetes and Nutrition Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Epidemiologic studies consistently report associations between obesity and dietary fat but not total energy intake. We measured ad libitum food intake in a laboratory setting and evaluated its relation to body weight and composition, energy expenditure, and macronutrient utilization in 28 women of Pima-Papago heritage (aged 27 +/- 7 y, 85.3 +/- 19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlobal estimates for prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in adults. WHO Ad Hoc Diabetes Reporting Group.
Diabetes Care
January 1993
Diabetes and Other Noncommunicable Diseases Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Objective: To assemble standardized estimates of abnormal glucose tolerance in adults in diverse communities worldwide and provide guidelines for the derivation of comparable estimates in future epidemiological studies.
Research Design And Methods: The project was limited to population-based investigations that had used current WHO criteria for diagnosis and classification of abnormal glucose tolerance. Raw data were obtained by WHO from surveys conducted during 1976-1991 of over 150,000 persons from 75 communities in 32 countries.
High incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in Pima Indians.
Am J Epidemiol
June 1989
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ.
A longitudinal epidemiologic study has been conducted to estimate the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in an American Indian population, the Pima and Papago Indians of Arizona. Clinical, serologic, and radiologic data were collected during biennial examinations of subjects aged 20 years or more during the period 1967-1986. Rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed by criteria for the active and the inactive disease.
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