Gordon H Defriese
Biographic Data
| ID | 1729338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon H Defriese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon H |
| FAMILY NAME | Defriese |
| SIGNATURE | DEFRIESE G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Israel and Gaza
From 1967 until the mid-1990s, civilian health care in the Gaza Strip was administered by the Israel Defense Forces’ Civil Administration, under the direction of the Israeli Ministry of Health. During this period, the Palestinian population of Gaza, along with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, partnered with Israeli health experts in a series of initiatives that achieved dramatic gains in immunization coverage, mother–child care, and di…
Urinary Incontinence and Risk of Death among Community-Living Elderly People
The relationship between UI and mortality in older adults can largely be understood on the basis of increased frailty in incontinent individuals
Metropolitan Versus Nonmetropolitan Differences in Functional Status and Self‐care Practice
The objective of this study was to use a recent national probability survey of the noninstitutionalized older adult population to compare the functional status and self‐care practices of older adults residing in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan communities and to identify differences associated with residential location. The survey used in this study was the National Survey of Self‐care and Aging (NSSCA). A cross‐sectional design was employed usi…
Predicting Mortality from Community Surveys of Older Adults
Using data from the 1990 baseline of the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), and nearly three years of follow-up mortality data, we examined the association between self-rated functional ability, a global measure of perceived ability of function independently, and mortality among a national sample of older adults. The study included 3,485 subjects selected from the Medicare Beneficiary Files according to a stratified random sampling d…
The Effects of Having a Regular Doctor on Access to Primary Care
The authors assessed the relationship between having a regular doctor and access to care, as measured by a set of preventive and primary care utilization indicators recommended by the Institute of Medicine. The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey was used in the analyses (n = 30,012). The results of the regression analyses suggest that individuals with any type of regular source of care had better access than those without a regular source o…
Strategies, guidelines, policies and standards
In this paper, the authors respond on behalf ofa panel representing the American Public Health Association in the USA to criticisms from Canada (by Higgins and Green, two health education researchers from British Columbia) regarding the relevance and adequacy of a set of criteria developed in the USA for guiding the development of health promotion programs in other developed countries, such as Canada. The US criteria included a specific focus on …
Self-Care and Assistance from others in Coping with Functional Status Limitations among a National Sample of Older Adults
Using data from the first wave of a new longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined older adults' self-care practices in coping with functional status limitations based on in-person interviews with a national probability sample of 3,485 noninstitutionalized adults aged 65 or older selected from Medicare beneficiary files. A composite score of functional …
An Autobiography of a Founder of Health Services Research
From activated patient to pacified activist
An evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs
The design of a comprehensive evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs on a large national scale is described, Its major purpose is to derive data whose analysis will answer major policy questions about the factors influencing the outcome of the major types of such programs in different communities. This first paper also delineates a typology which was developed of five principal organizational forms of these programs. This classifica…
Child health and the problem of access to care
1Director, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2Research Associate, Inter-study, Incorporated Excelsior, Minnesota
Estimating Dental Manpower Requirements on a Statewide Basis
The North Carolina Dental Manpower Study undertook to use epidemiological data on dental disease, data on practice productivity, and estimates of treatment needs to arrive at more useful measures of dental manpower requirements on a statewide and substate regional basis. As in all attempts to plan for health manpower, the North Carolina study relied upon a measure of subjective judgment pertaining to the treatment/services required to deal with c…
The program implications of administrative relationships between local health departments and state and local government
A typology of organizational arrangements between state and local public health agencies was used as a framework within which the organizational environment of the local health department was studied for its effects on program development and implementation by local public health departments. Data collected in a national sample of local health officers were used in measuring the effect of four different patterns of administrative relationships on…
Unequal Care
The New Health Professionals
A survey of local public health departments and their directors
In 1974 a questionnaire was mailed to the nation's local health officers. Responses were received from 1,345, at least 68 per cent of all local health departments. The present paper presents selected summary data from respondents concerning the health departments, their jurisdictions, organization, finance, functions, staffing, and about the training, salaries, and other characteristics of local health officers. Health departments are extensively…
Physician Receptivity to Nurse Practitioners
A survey to measure physician receptivity to nurse practitioners was conducted in North Carolina in 1973. All North Carolina physicians were asked to rate a list of 35 clinical tasks of varying levels of difficulty and responsibility according to their willingness to delegate these tasks to nurse practitioners. Using eight items from this list that were good discriminants of physician attitudes towards delegating responsibility, task delegation s…
The Applicability of Organizational Sociology.Chris Argyris
Verbal Attitudes, Overt Acts, and the Influence of Social Constraint in Interracial Behavior
This paper studies racial attitudes as related to an indicated willingness to accept open occupancy in white residential neighborhoods. The study attempts to ascertain whether the predictability of the overt response of a given individual to a publicly salient issue can be increased by knowing the individual's personal attitudinal position toward Negroes in general, and the influence of certain of his significant reference groups with respect to …
Open occupancy—What whites say, what they do
Maori and Pakeha
Self-Care and Assistance from others in Coping with Functional Status Limitations among a National Sample of Older Adults
Using data from the first wave of a new longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined older adults' self-care practices in coping with functional status limitations based on in-person interviews with a national probability sample of 3,485 noninstitutionalized adults aged 65 or older selected from Medicare beneficiary files. A composite score of functional …
Predicting Mortality from Community Surveys of Older Adults
Using data from the 1990 baseline of the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), and nearly three years of follow-up mortality data, we examined the association between self-rated functional ability, a global measure of perceived ability of function independently, and mortality among a national sample of older adults. The study included 3,485 subjects selected from the Medicare Beneficiary Files according to a stratified random sampling d…
A survey of local public health departments and their directors
In 1974 a questionnaire was mailed to the nation's local health officers. Responses were received from 1,345, at least 68 per cent of all local health departments. The present paper presents selected summary data from respondents concerning the health departments, their jurisdictions, organization, finance, functions, staffing, and about the training, salaries, and other characteristics of local health officers. Health departments are extensively…
From activated patient to pacified activist
Verbal Attitudes, Overt Acts, and the Influence of Social Constraint in Interracial Behavior
This paper studies racial attitudes as related to an indicated willingness to accept open occupancy in white residential neighborhoods. The study attempts to ascertain whether the predictability of the overt response of a given individual to a publicly salient issue can be increased by knowing the individual's personal attitudinal position toward Negroes in general, and the influence of certain of his significant reference groups with respect to …
The program implications of administrative relationships between local health departments and state and local government
A typology of organizational arrangements between state and local public health agencies was used as a framework within which the organizational environment of the local health department was studied for its effects on program development and implementation by local public health departments. Data collected in a national sample of local health officers were used in measuring the effect of four different patterns of administrative relationships on…
An evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs
The design of a comprehensive evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs on a large national scale is described, Its major purpose is to derive data whose analysis will answer major policy questions about the factors influencing the outcome of the major types of such programs in different communities. This first paper also delineates a typology which was developed of five principal organizational forms of these programs. This classifica…
Urinary Incontinence and Risk of Death among Community-Living Elderly People
The relationship between UI and mortality in older adults can largely be understood on the basis of increased frailty in incontinent individuals
Open occupancy—What whites say, what they do
Maori and Pakeha
Open occupancy—What whites say, what they do
Verbal Attitudes, Overt Acts, and the Influence of Social Constraint in Interracial Behavior
This paper studies racial attitudes as related to an indicated willingness to accept open occupancy in white residential neighborhoods. The study attempts to ascertain whether the predictability of the overt response of a given individual to a publicly salient issue can be increased by knowing the individual's personal attitudinal position toward Negroes in general, and the influence of certain of his significant reference groups with respect to …
The Applicability of Organizational Sociology.Chris Argyris
A survey of local public health departments and their directors
In 1974 a questionnaire was mailed to the nation's local health officers. Responses were received from 1,345, at least 68 per cent of all local health departments. The present paper presents selected summary data from respondents concerning the health departments, their jurisdictions, organization, finance, functions, staffing, and about the training, salaries, and other characteristics of local health officers. Health departments are extensively…
Physician Receptivity to Nurse Practitioners
A survey to measure physician receptivity to nurse practitioners was conducted in North Carolina in 1973. All North Carolina physicians were asked to rate a list of 35 clinical tasks of varying levels of difficulty and responsibility according to their willingness to delegate these tasks to nurse practitioners. Using eight items from this list that were good discriminants of physician attitudes towards delegating responsibility, task delegation s…
The New Health Professionals
Estimating Dental Manpower Requirements on a Statewide Basis
The North Carolina Dental Manpower Study undertook to use epidemiological data on dental disease, data on practice productivity, and estimates of treatment needs to arrive at more useful measures of dental manpower requirements on a statewide and substate regional basis. As in all attempts to plan for health manpower, the North Carolina study relied upon a measure of subjective judgment pertaining to the treatment/services required to deal with c…
The program implications of administrative relationships between local health departments and state and local government
A typology of organizational arrangements between state and local public health agencies was used as a framework within which the organizational environment of the local health department was studied for its effects on program development and implementation by local public health departments. Data collected in a national sample of local health officers were used in measuring the effect of four different patterns of administrative relationships on…
Unequal Care
Child health and the problem of access to care
1Director, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2Research Associate, Inter-study, Incorporated Excelsior, Minnesota
An evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs
The design of a comprehensive evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs on a large national scale is described, Its major purpose is to derive data whose analysis will answer major policy questions about the factors influencing the outcome of the major types of such programs in different communities. This first paper also delineates a typology which was developed of five principal organizational forms of these programs. This classifica…
From activated patient to pacified activist
An Autobiography of a Founder of Health Services Research
Strategies, guidelines, policies and standards
In this paper, the authors respond on behalf ofa panel representing the American Public Health Association in the USA to criticisms from Canada (by Higgins and Green, two health education researchers from British Columbia) regarding the relevance and adequacy of a set of criteria developed in the USA for guiding the development of health promotion programs in other developed countries, such as Canada. The US criteria included a specific focus on …
Self-Care and Assistance from others in Coping with Functional Status Limitations among a National Sample of Older Adults
Using data from the first wave of a new longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined older adults' self-care practices in coping with functional status limitations based on in-person interviews with a national probability sample of 3,485 noninstitutionalized adults aged 65 or older selected from Medicare beneficiary files. A composite score of functional …
The Effects of Having a Regular Doctor on Access to Primary Care
The authors assessed the relationship between having a regular doctor and access to care, as measured by a set of preventive and primary care utilization indicators recommended by the Institute of Medicine. The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey was used in the analyses (n = 30,012). The results of the regression analyses suggest that individuals with any type of regular source of care had better access than those without a regular source o…
Metropolitan Versus Nonmetropolitan Differences in Functional Status and Self‐care Practice
The objective of this study was to use a recent national probability survey of the noninstitutionalized older adult population to compare the functional status and self‐care practices of older adults residing in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan communities and to identify differences associated with residential location. The survey used in this study was the National Survey of Self‐care and Aging (NSSCA). A cross‐sectional design was employed usi…
Predicting Mortality from Community Surveys of Older Adults
Using data from the 1990 baseline of the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), and nearly three years of follow-up mortality data, we examined the association between self-rated functional ability, a global measure of perceived ability of function independently, and mortality among a national sample of older adults. The study included 3,485 subjects selected from the Medicare Beneficiary Files according to a stratified random sampling d…
Urinary Incontinence and Risk of Death among Community-Living Elderly People
The relationship between UI and mortality in older adults can largely be understood on the basis of increased frailty in incontinent individuals
Israel and Gaza
From 1967 until the mid-1990s, civilian health care in the Gaza Strip was administered by the Israel Defense Forces’ Civil Administration, under the direction of the Israeli Ministry of Health. During this period, the Palestinian population of Gaza, along with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, partnered with Israeli health experts in a series of initiatives that achieved dramatic gains in immunization coverage, mother–child care, and di…
Medicine (16 works) · Political science (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works)