Lectures on Preventive Medicine

Lectures on Medicine to Nurses

Occasional Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

In addition to Dr. Cheadle's well-known Harveian lectures on the Rheumatism of Childhood, this work contains chapters devoted to the following subjects: The use and abuse of tonics, the clinical uses of opium, the diagnosis and treatment of certain minor disorders of childhood, constipation, rickets, and some practical points on the treatment of diseases of the lungs and air passages. To the pr...

Preventive Medicine

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...

Preventive Medicine

Background. African Americans have low immunization rates, yet little is known about their immunization knowledge, attitudes, and practices or about the effect of outreach to this audience. In Spring 1997, the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) launched a statewide culturally sensitive and ethnically specific media campaign directed toward African Americans. This campaign was prece...

Preventive Medicine