Structure of dye aggregates and the mechanism(s) of photosensitization of AgBr.
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Bromides↗
Biomedical subjects
B Zuckerman
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An evaluation of I Can Cope. Insights into program design and implementation.
The I Can Cope program is an educational program developed to provide information on how to promote physical and emotional well-being to individuals with cancer, their families, and friends. Through focus group and individual interviews and a mailed survey, the effectiveness of the selection, marketing, implementation, and support processes associated with implementing the program in the central Arizona and greater Las Vegas, Nevada, regions was evaluated. Findings, recommendations, lessons learned, and use of findings are discussed.
Adaptation, Psychological↗
A public health response to emerging technology: expansion of the Massachusetts newborn screening program.
The development of a new technology, called tandem mass spectrometry (tandem MS), has challenged governments worldwide to consider expanding universal newborn screening for rare metabolic disorders. In 1997 the Massachusetts Department of Public Health developed a public process to meet this challenge. After addressing significant medical, legal, ethical, and logistical issues raised by tandem MS, Massachusetts incorporated one new disorder into the mandatory newborn screen and developed an optional pilot program for 20 additional disorders. The Massachusetts experience has wide relevance for other nations and states. As screening protocols are contemplated for entire populations-for newborns and others- it will remain essential that the public participate in an open process of reviewing the justification for and logistics of screening.
Ethics, Medical↗
Developing an arrhythmia course for obstetric nurses.
The need has increased for high-risk obstetric nurses to interpret cardiac rhythms, owing to the potential cardiovascular side-effects of tocolytic therapy in premature labor. The cardiovascular critical care nurse, educator, and clinical specialist are important to obstetric nurses as consultants for arrhythmia interpretation. These authors describe how to plan, develop, and implement an arrhythmia course for staff nurses working in obstetric units.
Arrhythmias, Cardiac↗
A mediational model for the impact of exposure to community violence on early child behavior problems.
This study examined how maternal distress mediates the link between exposure to community violence (CV) and the development of early child behavior problems. Research was conducted among 160 children, 3,0 to 5,11 in age, who resided in high-crime neighborhoods. Using structural equation modeling, latent variables were constructed to identify model components: maternal socioeconomic status (SES) and public assistance status, exposure to CV (maternal perceptions of local violence, social disorder, and fear of crime; and frequency of child cowitnessing violent events), family aggression (partner aggression toward mother and partner aggression toward child), maternal distress (global distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms), and early child behavior problems (internalizing and externalizing). Bivariate correlations indicated that CV, maternal distress, and early child behavior problems were significantly intercorrelated. A series of structural equation models was specified to estimate the direct and indirect effect of CV on early child behavior problems. A direct model indicated a significant path from CV to early child behavior problems, after controlling for maternal SES and family aggression. The direct CV-early child behavior problems path diminished, however, when maternal distress was included in the model, after controlling for maternal SES and family aggression. Results are consistent with a mediation model of the impact of maternal distress symptoms on the link between CV and early child behavior problems.
Black or African American↗
State health care reform in Massachusetts.
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Adolescent↗
Prenatal cocaine use: impact on infants and mothers.
Prenatal cocaine use does not allow a mother to provide an environment that promotes her infant's normal development. Pediatric nurses and other health care professionals need to support and assist the mother in the recovery process for the benefit of the child's health and development.
Adult↗