FurkArt ephemera 1984-1996

Emergency contraception: change in knowledge of women attending for termination of pregnancy from 1984 to 1996.

OBJECTIVE To compare the knowledge of emergency contraception in women attending hospital for termination of pregnancy in 1984 and 1996. DESIGN A questionnaire survey. SETTING Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. SUBJECTS Cohorts of 100 consecutive women undergoing termination of pregnancy in 1984 and 1996. RESULTS Over this 12 year period, there has been a significant improvement in the knowled...

Trends in asthma morbidity and mortality in Japan between 1984 and 1996.

PURPOSE To determine whether the increased prevalence of asthma in Japan has influenced its mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive study was conducted by the data obtained from Patient Survey and Vital Statistics of Japan between 1984 and 1996. Asthma fatalities were expressed as the number of deaths from asthma per 100,000 asthmatic patients receiving medical treatment on the day whe...

Displaced workers in Australia 1984-1996: Macroeconomic Conditions and Structural Change

This paper examines the incidence of worker displacement in Australia between 1984 and 1996. Similar to recent international studies a particular focus is on whether job security declined between the 1980s and 1990s. It is found that a significant, but apparently temporary, increase in the incidence of displacement did occur at the beginning of the 1990s. This rise in the incidence of displacem...

Parents' labour market participation as predictor of children's well-being: changes from 1984 to 1996 in the Nordic countries.

BACKGROUND This study analysed the influence of parents' labour market participation on their children's well-being in the five Nordic countries, and the changes from 1984 to 1996, during which unemployment rates generally rose in the Nordic countries. METHODS Parent-reported questionnaire data from two cross-sectional studies, 12 years apart, with 15,354 (in 1984) and 15,255 (in 1996) random...

Cell Line: 1984–1993