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PubMed2000

Singing "the baby blues": a content analysis of popular press articles about postpartum affective disturbances.

A content analysis was conducted to evaluate the description of postpartum mood disturbances in magazine articles that appeared during the years 1980-1998. Nineteen articles about postpartum depression and eight articles about "the baby blues" were identified and analyzed for their discussion of etiologies, symptoms, treatments, resources, and demographic assumptions about their readers. The results indicate a strong bias in favor of the medical model of postpartum affective disorders. The articles contained contradictory information about the definition, prevalence, onset, duration, symptoms, and treatment of postpartum disorders, and the authors generally assumed that their readers were heterosexual, married, and middle class. Although the purpose of the articles was to educate readers about an important topic in women's health, they failed to provide accurate information, and thus are not a sufficient resource for new mothers who are seeking to learn about psychosocial aspects of the postpartum period.

Bibliometrics↗
PubMed2005

Temporal changes in anthropometric measurements of idealized females and young women in general.

This study examined the temporal anthropometric changes in idealized female body images in the media (i.e., Playboy magazine Playmates of the Year, Miss America Pageant winners, and fashion models) and young women in general across eight decades. Overall, all anthropometric measures differed significantly over time. BMI for all women in the idealized groups tended to decline significantly over time, while the BMI for YoungWomen increased significantly. Models tended to have the smallest bust and hips, Playmates the largest bust, and young women in general the largest waist and hips. The general trend for all groups was to move from a less curvaceous body shape in the early part of the twentieth century to a more curvaceous shape at mid-century and returning to a less curvaceous shape at the end of the century. Idealized women have a body size unlike that of Young Women and the chasm between the media- defined ideal and reality is continuing to diverge.

Beauty↗
PubMed1995

Health marketing information: an assessment of past and future utilization patterns.

A sample of 108 members of the Academy of Health Services Marketing provided bibliographic citations of 629 sources of information which have been important to them in their jobs. The results indicate that the propensity to rely upon a source is dependent upon the topic of the information sought. The sources under scrutiny were consultants, books, journals, magazines, seminars, conferences, video tapes, and audio tapes. The topics considered included the variables of the marketing mix as well as market planning and marketing research. The discussion provides insight about where seekers of health care marketing knowledge go for specific kinds of information. It also suggests types of media that information-providers should consider for dissemination of their material.

Advertising↗
PubMed1998

Patient sources of information and decision factors in selecting cosmetic surgeons.

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study designed to examine influential information sources and decision factors in the selection of plastic surgeons for cosmetic versus medical procedures. Physician referrals were found to be the most influential sources of information for both groups. Word-of-mouth and magazine and newspaper articles were also important information sources for cosmetic patients. Primary selection factors were significantly different between groups, with board certification the most influential for cosmetic patients and recommendation by physician most influential for medical patients.

Decision Making↗
PubMed2004

The marketing and demarketing of tobacco products to low-income African-Americans.

This study examines the attitudes and behaviors of 399 low-income, primarily African-American residents of a public housing project toward tobacco usage. First, 46 percent of respondents over 18 years of age reported using a tobacco product. A number of other differences were apparent between users and non-users, with tobacco users reporting positive attitudes toward displaying clothing or products with tobacco brand names or logos. Tobacco users were also more likely to approve the use of tobacco and of tobacco commercials in magazines. As might be expected, users were less likely to support smoking bans in restaurants and increase taxes on tobacco products. As a result of the findings, recommendations are provided to reduce the smoking rates of this sub-population.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Making hospital advertisements more readable and more effective.

Hospitals and other health care organizations make continuing use of newspaper and magazine advertising as part of their marketing programs. However, many institutions have questioned the effectiveness of advertising because they have not achieved the results they had hoped for. Part of the problem may lie in the fact that many hospital advertisements violate the principles of good copywriting. Well written advertisements will draw larger readership, and should subsequently prove more effective in helping the institution achieve its communications objectives.

Advertising↗
PubMed1990

The nutrition information sources of elderly New Zealanders.

A questionnaire was sent to 230 elderly New Zealanders selected at random from the age/sex registers of medical practitioners to investigate their current usage and perceptions of nutrition information sources. The sample selected was representative of the New Zealand elderly population in terms of age, sex, and socioeconomic status distribution. Forty five per cent of respondents indicated they had obtained nutrition information in the past twelve months. Doctors (GP's) were the most common source of nutrition information--used by 20% of the respondents--and many also considered them to be the most reliable and trustworthy. Newspapers and magazines were considered to be the least reliable source of nutrition information. Approximately two thirds of respondents expressed a desire for more nutrition information; pamphlets and GP's were the favoured sources. This study suggests lower socioeconomic groups of elderly people are less receptive audiences for nutrition information. As other research indicates these elderly people are also at greater nutritional risk, reaching these groups present a major challenge to nutrition educators.

Aged↗
PubMed1998

Use of false ID cards and other deceptive methods to purchase alcoholic beverages during high school.

Altered motor vehicle drivers's licenses or other falsified or counterfeit photo identification cards are widely and illegally used by teenagers to obtain beer and other alcohol beverages. We obtained information on the methods currently used by teenagers to purchase beer and wine by asking nine hundred teenagers, between 16-19 years old to complete a brief, confidential questionnaire. High school students most often obtained alcoholic beverages by requesting someone of legal age to purchase it for them. College students used borrowed, altered, or counterfeit identification (ID) more often than high school students. Photo IDs purchased through mail order from a magazine advertisement were used infrequently and when use was attempted, they were sometimes (25%) unsuccessful. Fifteen percent of high school students, 14% of college freshmen, and 24% of teenage drug abusers were able to purchase beer by the case with borrowed, altered, or fake ID. Suggestions to reduce sales of alcohol-containing beverages to minors include universal "carding" of prospective purchasers, use of two view or hologram photos on a drivers' license, requiring three different ID cards at the point of purchase, and penalties to stores that fail to make a good effort to identify underage customers.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

Sexual orientation: a multi-variable dynamic process.

Theory and research concerning sexual orientation has been restricted in its scope and influence by the lack of clear and widely accepted definitions of terms like heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual. In an attempt to better demarcate and understand the complexities of human sexual attitudes, emotions, and behavior, the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) was developed and administered. The KSOG is composed of seven variables that are dimensions of sexual orientation, each of which is rated by the subject as applying to the present, past, or ideal. Analysis of the data from subjects who filled out the KSOG in Forum Magazine indicated that the instrument was a reliable and valid research tool which took into consideration the multi-variable and dynamic aspects of sexual orientation.

Age Factors↗
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Gay SM in pornography and reality.

A picture of SM interactions as depicted by pornographical issues of SM between 1974 and 1983 is presented by means of a correlational study of pornography. Actual SM scenarios are then compared with the depiction in magazines. The changes that have occurred over more than a decade reflected changes in the nature of violence and sexuality.

Erotica↗
PubMed1993

Gai Pied after ten years: a commercial success, a moral bankruptcy?

In this article, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Mattias Duyves describe and analyze the development of France's most important gay magazine: Gai Pied. They discuss the development of this weekly publication in relation to changes that have taken place in the French homosexual movement and the broader political context in the intervening years. Gai Pied was the most successful innovation of the gay movement in France at the end of the seventies. Indeed, in contemporary France the gay press seems to be the only substantial organized gay "movement" outside the AIDS network. Duyvendak and Duyves ask the question whether the price Gai Pied has paid for becoming so centralized and dominant (more commercialized and less challenging to the readers) has been too high.

France↗
PubMed1994

Lesbian sightings: scoping for dykes in Boucher and Cosmo.

In Cosmopolitan magazine and in the work of the eighteenth-century French painter François Boucher, lesbians are visible, but nobody seems to notice. The operation of covert invisibility in such disparate cultural products suggests that the closet metaphor and the common idea that queer visibility generates queer empowerment must be retained but rethought. It also suggests that queer scholars and activists can benefit from occasionally working as historical-specificity outlaws, which here brings into focus the distinct ideological affects of each product, as well as some shared ones that demand our attention, including the disarticulation of female political activism, and the promotion rather than subversion of hetero-hegemony.

Female↗
PubMed1995

So's your old lady: naming patterns in the gay and lesbian press.

This research explores the onomastic patterns of choice made by the editors of several thousand gay and lesbian newspapers, magazines, and other periodical publications issued between 1924 and 1992. Eleven categories of sources are identified and analyzed. Results indicate a highly varied background of both traditional and contemporary cultural, historical, and literary influences on the imagery of the gay and lesbian movement.

Female↗
PubMed1996

The effect of homosexual imagery in advertising on attitude toward the ad.

This study examines the differential impact that images in magazine advertising suggestive of either homosexuality or heterosexuality have on attitude toward the ad. Results support the hypothesis that homosexual imagery in advertising led to more positive attitude toward the ad among viewers more tolerant of homosexuality than among those less tolerant of homosexuality. Surprisingly, ads with heterosexual imagery were rated less favorably by viewers tolerant of homosexuality than by those less tolerant.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2003

Kuaering queer theory: my autocritography and a race-conscious, womanist, transnational turn.

Critiquing queer theory's omissions in race and class, E. Patrick Johnson (2001) suggests "quare" studies, a turn similar to that being made from feminism to womanism. I fully embrace Johnson's theorizing. But to make relevant the worlds lying beyond the pale of North America, Europe, and the English language to the study of sexualities and other dimensions of systematic discrimination, I use kuaer theory to make another turn. One that is at once race-conscious, womanist and transnational. I travel through three awakenings, and look into nu nu (female-female) words in Taiwanese and Chinese lesbian existence in different historical periods. I also ofter a rhetorical analysis of the title of Ai Bao, the first officially registered Taiwanese lesbian magazine, exploring its persuasiveness via wordplay and multiple entendre. In addition, from jin lan hui to nu tongzhi, from T/puo and lazi to kuer, I provide sketches of heterogeneous and complex Taiwanese and Chinese nu nu worlds. As I get deeper into my autocritography, these women become my women and I learn to utter my own words in a language that is little pre-packaged. My crossing marks a daring but humble beginning. If nothing else, there is at least more space for bringing up race and transnational complicity queerly.

Asian People↗
PubMed1997

Horizontal wires replace the vertical files.

Traditionally, clippings of newspaper articles, pictures from magazines, pamphlets, charts, graphs, posters, proceedings, or copies thereof, and other miscellaneous information sources have been stored in vertical files in libraries. The practice of creating and maintaining vertical files is extremely time consuming. In a medical library, in particular, old information about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis can quickly become incorrect, misleading, and possibly harmful. Adequately tending to the vertical files can require a librarian to create a balancing act between properly maintaining vertical files and meeting the needs of the users in other areas of the library. The maintenance of vertical files is, by nature, highly consumptive of paper and space consuming. A reasonable alternative to the traditional vertical files is the World-Wide Web. Search engines exist for locating specific information, and bookmarks and/or links which point users to particularly useful sites can be set in search software. Some methods for searching are discussed, and a variety of World-Wide Web information sources are offered.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed2006

Current awareness in the new millennium: RSS.

Keeping current is essential for both patrons and librarians in the health sciences. We receive electronic and photocopied tables of contents. We subscribe to relevant mailing lists, newspapers and magazines. We review Web sites, books and journals. Our desks are littered with current awareness items that more often get old than read. RSS or "Really Simple Syndication' is a means of organizing and simplifying current awareness efforts. Using RSS feeds from a variety of sources along with aggregator software, librarians can keep up-to-date without the clutter. This article will provide a starting point from which to take advantage of RSS and continue the process of active learning.

Efficiency, Organizational↗
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Counterfeit pharmaceuticals: current status and future projections.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the problem of counterfeit drugs and its effects around the world, to consider the likely directions the problem will take, and to propose options for controlling or mitigating the problem. DATA SOURCES: Recently published clinical literature identified through review of articles abstracted at MEDLINE. Search terms were counterfeiting, counterfeit drugs, substandard drugs, fake drugs, world counterfeiting, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Further information was abstracted from an array of informational sources, including magazines such as Business Week, newspapers such as the International Herald Tribune, National Public Radio news reports, pharmaceutical company press releases, and information from the World Health Organization. STUDY SELECTION: Multiple reviewers were used to retrieve relevant and current data. DATA EXTRACTION: Relevant data were extracted independently by multiple reviewers. DATA SYNTHESIS: Traditionally, the problem of counterfeit pharmaceuticals has been limited to developing nations in Asia and Africa. Now, drug counterfeiting is rapidly becoming a worldwide concern, and counterfeit drugs are reaching the U.S. market. This article defines the problem of counterfeit drugs in its many forms and discusses the extent of the problem, with particular attention to the respective rates of counterfeiting across the globe and the origins of counterfeit drugs. CONCLUSION: Technologic advances have worsened the counterfeit drug problem. Because drug counterfeiting is a worldwide concern, worldwide action is needed to combat the problem.

Consumer Product Safety↗