Pesticide safety training among farmworker adolescents from Starr County, Texas.

This study of adolescent farmworkers describes employer compliance with pesticide safety training, a requirement of the EPA-mandated Worker Protection Standard (WPS), and identifies variables associated with having received training within the prior five years. Data are from "A Study of Work Injuries in Farmworker Children, " a three-year cohort study of high school students living along the Texas-Mexico border in Starr County. Data were collected using a web-based, self-administered, confidential survey.

Avoiding charges of fraud and abuse: developing and implementing an effective compliance program.

During the last decade the federal government has made investigation of healthcare fraud and abuse a priority. Increasingly, nurses and skilled nursing organizations have been at the center of fraud and abuse cases. The authors examine data of sanctioned nurses obtained from the Office of the Inspector General.

Co-morbidity and treatment needs among nursing home residents receiving alcohol and drug treatment.

This study profiles nursing home residents receiving alcohol and drug treatment, describing their sociodemographic, health, and treatment characteristics. We analyzed 3,662 admission assessments in the Minimum Data Set for people receiving alcohol/drug treatment from June, 1998 through September, 2000. These residents were likely to be male and under age 50.

Profiles of nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis using the minimum data set.

This paper profiles nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the time of admission, including sociodemographic characteristics, health status measures, and treatments received. Admission assessments from the Minimum Data Set are used to create these profiles of residents with MS. There are 9,013 admission assessments in the MDS for residents with MS between June 22, 1998 and January 17, 2000 analyzed for this study.

Eligibility policies for the state AIDS drug assistance programs.

Drug treatments for HIV infection and related opportunistic infections have had dramatic impacts on the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV disease. HIV drug therapies are essential to the survival and to improved quality of life for individuals with HIV. However, not all people with HIV disease are receiving these medications.

Mean arterial pressure, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and preeclampsia: evaluation as independent risk factors and as surrogates for high maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein in estimating breast cancer risk.

Data from a nested case-control study were analyzed to examine high mean arterial pressure (MAP), hypertension of pregnancy, and preeclampsia as independent predictors and as surrogate markers for elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels in evaluating breast cancer risk. Cases (n = 205) were identified by the California Cancer Registry from a cohort of pregnant women who were part of the Kaiser Health Plan and took part in the Child Health and Development Studies initiated by the University of California, Berkeley, from June 1959 to September 1966. Controls (n = 337) were selected by randomized recruitment from the same cohort probability matched to cases by distribution of birth dates of cases.

Occupation and adult gliomas.

Lifetime job histories from a population-based, case-control study of gliomas diagnosed among adults in the San Francisco Bay area between August 1991 and April 1994 were evaluated to assess occupational risk factors. Occupational data for 476 cases and 462 controls were analyzed, with adjustment for age, gender, education, and race. Imprecise increased risks were observed for physicians and surgeons (odds ratio (OR) = 3.

Cambio en las escuelas: Mexican-American parent attitudes toward school health education.

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of Mexican-American (MA) parents of children toward school health education programs in South Texas. The Parent Attitude Scale (PAS) was developed and validated by American Cancer Society (ACS) staff and volunteer health educators. The validated survey was used to question randomly selected parents in the McAllen, Texas, school district regarding their attitudes toward school health education.

Assessments of the coverage of HIV-related care by public programs: a survey of AIDS service organizations.

AIDS service organizations (ASOs) were surveyed to identify effective services covered, and effective services not covered, by the Medicaid and Medicare programs, as well as programs funded by Title I and II of the Ryan White CARE Act. The Medicaid programs cover a range of effective health services, with prescription drug coverage mentioned most frequently by the ASOs. In addition to prescription drugs and physician services, the Title II programs offer a range of support-related services.