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29399
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The State Center for Health Statistics conducted an analysis of race-specific sociodemographic, natality, mortality, and morbidity data focusing on the relative status of North Carolina’s American Indian residents. Data are provided separately for reservation and non-reservation Indians.
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29400
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This report provides data and information on maternal characteristics that are known risk factors for conditions associated with fetal, neonatal and post-neonatal deaths in North Carolina. A trend analysis made use of three previous publications which covered birth years 1969-1973, 1972-1976, and 1975-1979, as well as an analysis of 1973-1983 data.
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29401
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The pattern of mortality from infectious diseases has declined in North Carolina, but childhood accidental death has emerged as the leading cause of death to children nineteen years of age or younger. This report examines the incidence of nonfatal childhood accidental injury in North Carolina and household conditions that increase the likelihood of such injuries.
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29402
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In North Carolina and across the United States, birth rates have steadily fallen over the past several decades. In recent years, however, both the birth rate and the induced abortion rate of older women have risen, and first-time births among women of ages thirty and older have risen sharply. Problems that may be associated with delayed and limited childbearing are examined and discussed in this report.
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29406
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The impact of a comprehensive prenatal care program on the birthweights of infants born to low-income women in North Carolina was assessed. Women receiving prenatal care at the Guilford County public health department were compared to women on Medicaid, who received prenatal care mainly from private-practice physicians.
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29407
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This article reviews data on alcohol-related morbidity in North Carolina and addresses the question of alcohol-related mortality. The combination of alcohol and cigarettes contributes to the development of cancers, while excessive alcohol use is a major factor leading to accidental injury and death.
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29408
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This report was produced in response to thirty quantifiable national health objectives for which comparable and reliable North Carolina data were available. It is meant to inform health planners, policy makers, and the health community at large of state and national trends and the statistical prospects for meeting each of the thirty objectives, based on trends of the recent past.
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29409
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For the period 1978-1986 in North Carolina, nonwhite abortion was negatively correlated with the fertility rate and the fetal and neonatal death rates of nonwhite infants born in the same year. The correlation varied by age, education, income, marital, and birth-order categories.
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29412
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In North Carolina, most county health departments provide both family planning and prenatal care services to eligible women. The rate of continuity between these two services was assessed using data from the North Carolina Health Services Information System (HSIS).
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29413
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North Carolina is experiencing major changes in its age structure as life expectancies have increased, birth rates decreased, and population migration occurred. Between 1980 and 2010, the number of North Carolina residents sixty-five and older is expected to dramatically increase. This report examined cause-specific mortality rates for three elderly age groups by race and sex.
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29423
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This study examined occupational mortality differences among working-age North Carolinians in order to identify associations between cause of death and occupation. An analysis of death certificate data provided clues to occupational health problems, and suggest which occupations need health promotion/disease prevention activities.
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29426
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Data from 1997 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System showed deficits in cancer screening in North Carolina. This study focused on four site-specific cancers and occupational mortality. The results from death certificates highlight the potential for using the worksite to bring health promotion information and disease screening to North Carolina residents.
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29427
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Breast cancer has become the most frequently occurring cancer in women throughout North Carolina and the United States. Several risk factors for breast cancer include estrogen exposure and nulliparity, or never having given birth. This study investigated those risk factors in North Carolina breast cancer patients.
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29428
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Postpartum depression is a substantial problem affecting mothers and their families. A sample of mothers was obtained from the North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, and used to assess the impact of individual life stressors on the risk of postpartum depression. Several major stressors were unemployment, economic adversities, isolation and loss of social support.
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29429
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental food and nutrition education to low-income or nutritionally at-risk women, infants and young children. This North Carolina study examined prenatal WIC participants and non-participants, and compared Medicaid births, birth weight and Medicaid newborn costs.
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