Judith A Fortney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3879962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith A Fortney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortney |
| SIGNATURE | FORTNEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Family Health International 360 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing Survey Measures of Infant Birth Weight and Birth Size in Ecuador
The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of using maternal assessments of infant birth size as proxy measures for birth weight in Ecuador, a country in which a sizeable proportion of births take place at home, where birth weight is typically not recorded. Four thousand and seventy-eight women who experienced a live singleton birth between January 1992 and August 1994 were interviewed in the Ecuador Demographic and Maternal–Child Health…
Assessing Recall and Understanding of Informed Consent in a Contraceptive Clinical Trial
Recall and understanding of information provided to contraceptive study participants in four sites were assessed. Analysis was completed of data for 70 women who were asked about their recollection of information and understanding of participation. Most women understood the purpose of the study. Their reasons for agreeing to participate varied by site and included wanting to try a new method, wanting to help others, and wishing to avoid pregnancy…
Letter
This article describes the author's findings that were similar to those reported by Ronsman and al. on the lack of a statistically significant association between birth interval and maternal mortality in unspecified developing countries. The author reports findings with less satisfactory data than Ronsman et al. The data were obtained on 594 maternal deaths from 450,000 hospital obstetric records. 5 controls were drawn for each case and matched b…
Hospital Deaths in a High Risk Obstetric Population
Three thousand four hundred thirteen consecutive deliveries at a rural hospital in Zaire are examined. 85% of patients had goiters and 5% were cretins. Twenty maternal deaths occurred, or 5.9 per 1000 deliveries. Risk factors for maternal death included late presentation, advanced age (⩾ 35 years), no education and presence of goiter or cretinism. Ninety percent of women who died were in critical condition at admission, 45% had labored ⩾48 h and …
Condoms, Spermicides, and the Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The effectiveness of condoms and spermicides in preventing the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered in this review of relevant studies. While use of condoms or spermicides is unlikely to be harmful there is the potential for harm if their use is substituted for abstinence monogamy or good judgment. More research and better data are required to bridge these gaps in knowledge: the risk of seroconversion among fully compl…
Anthropology and Epidemiology
Section I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.- Introduction: Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology.- Early Work in Anthropology and Epidemiology: From Social Medicine to the Germ Theory, 1840 to 1920.- Anthropology and Epidemiology in the Twentieth Century: A Selective History of Collaborative Projects and Theoretical Affinities, 1920 to 1970.- Section II: Infectious Diseases.- Epidemiological Research on Infectious Disease: Quantitative Ri…
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
The Importance of Family Planning in Reducing Maternal Mortality
Oral Contraceptives and Life Expectancy
Life expectancy for women in the United States is 77.34 years; women who take oral contraceptives (OCs) for five years before the age of 30 can expect to live about four days longer. This is due primarily to protection against ovarian and endometrial cancers. For women taking pills for five years in their thirties there is a maximum loss of 18 days on the average that is attributable to OC use, and for women over 45 this rises to 80 days. The dec…
Reproductive mortality in two developing countries
Time to Conception after IUD removal
Some investigations of IUD use have demonstrated impaired ability to become pregnant after removal, while others have not. None of these studies, however, have adequately considered such potentially influencing variables as age and a history of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). To study the effect of length of IUD use, IUD type and the modifying influences of age and PID history on time required to conceive, we followed women trying to become pr…
Menstrual Patterns after Female Sterilization
Previous studies of the changes in menstrual pattern characteristics following sterilization have been flawed by methodologic errors. As a result, contradictory findings have been reported. Appropriate methodologic approaches to the study of poststerilization menstrual patterns are presented, and a new methodologic approach-an index of menstrual pattern change-is offered, which evaluates four menstrual parameters simultaneously. A carefully contr…
Childbearing after age 35
Births to women aged 35 years and older are compared with births to women aged 20–34 in three hospitals, one each in Mexico, Egypt and Hungary. In the two developing countries, babies born to the older women had lower rates of survival until hospital discharge, and were more likely to have depressed 5-minute Apgar scores. They were not, however, more likely to be of low birth weight. The differences were statistically significant, and remained wh…
Immigrant Professionals in the United States
Competing Risks of Unnecessary Procedures and Complications
With early treatment of menstrual regulation, the probability of performing an unnecessary operation in quite high. Pregnancy tests available that are sufficiently sensitive to confirm an early pregnancy are beyond the financial reach of many clinics and hospitals. It is difficulty to justify performing procedures for patients with relatively insensitive negative pregnancy tests. However, there are occasions where the procedure must be done witho…
Reply to Wilder-Okladek
Immigrant Professionals a Brief Historical Survey
Immigrant Professional a Brief Historical Survey
International migration of professionals
Using chiefly data published by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service this paper presents a statistical summary of the trends in professional immigration into the United States. The proportion of immigrants who are professionals has been steadily increasing during recent decades, and change in immigration laws produced a sharper increase since 1965. The second trend of importance is the increasing proportion of professional immigrants w…
The Importance of Family Planning in Reducing Maternal Mortality
International migration of professionals
Using chiefly data published by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service this paper presents a statistical summary of the trends in professional immigration into the United States. The proportion of immigrants who are professionals has been steadily increasing during recent decades, and change in immigration laws produced a sharper increase since 1965. The second trend of importance is the increasing proportion of professional immigrants w…
Assessing Recall and Understanding of Informed Consent in a Contraceptive Clinical Trial
Recall and understanding of information provided to contraceptive study participants in four sites were assessed. Analysis was completed of data for 70 women who were asked about their recollection of information and understanding of participation. Most women understood the purpose of the study. Their reasons for agreeing to participate varied by site and included wanting to try a new method, wanting to help others, and wishing to avoid pregnancy…
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
Immigrant Professional a Brief Historical Survey
International migration of professionals
Using chiefly data published by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service this paper presents a statistical summary of the trends in professional immigration into the United States. The proportion of immigrants who are professionals has been steadily increasing during recent decades, and change in immigration laws produced a sharper increase since 1965. The second trend of importance is the increasing proportion of professional immigrants w…
Immigrant Professionals a Brief Historical Survey
Immigrant Professional a Brief Historical Survey
Reply to Wilder-Okladek
Immigrant Professionals in the United States
Competing Risks of Unnecessary Procedures and Complications
With early treatment of menstrual regulation, the probability of performing an unnecessary operation in quite high. Pregnancy tests available that are sufficiently sensitive to confirm an early pregnancy are beyond the financial reach of many clinics and hospitals. It is difficulty to justify performing procedures for patients with relatively insensitive negative pregnancy tests. However, there are occasions where the procedure must be done witho…
Childbearing after age 35
Births to women aged 35 years and older are compared with births to women aged 20–34 in three hospitals, one each in Mexico, Egypt and Hungary. In the two developing countries, babies born to the older women had lower rates of survival until hospital discharge, and were more likely to have depressed 5-minute Apgar scores. They were not, however, more likely to be of low birth weight. The differences were statistically significant, and remained wh…
Menstrual Patterns after Female Sterilization
Previous studies of the changes in menstrual pattern characteristics following sterilization have been flawed by methodologic errors. As a result, contradictory findings have been reported. Appropriate methodologic approaches to the study of poststerilization menstrual patterns are presented, and a new methodologic approach-an index of menstrual pattern change-is offered, which evaluates four menstrual parameters simultaneously. A carefully contr…
Oral Contraceptives and Life Expectancy
Life expectancy for women in the United States is 77.34 years; women who take oral contraceptives (OCs) for five years before the age of 30 can expect to live about four days longer. This is due primarily to protection against ovarian and endometrial cancers. For women taking pills for five years in their thirties there is a maximum loss of 18 days on the average that is attributable to OC use, and for women over 45 this rises to 80 days. The dec…
Reproductive mortality in two developing countries
Time to Conception after IUD removal
Some investigations of IUD use have demonstrated impaired ability to become pregnant after removal, while others have not. None of these studies, however, have adequately considered such potentially influencing variables as age and a history of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). To study the effect of length of IUD use, IUD type and the modifying influences of age and PID history on time required to conceive, we followed women trying to become pr…
Causes of death to women of reproductive age in two developing countries
The Importance of Family Planning in Reducing Maternal Mortality
Condoms, Spermicides, and the Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The effectiveness of condoms and spermicides in preventing the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered in this review of relevant studies. While use of condoms or spermicides is unlikely to be harmful there is the potential for harm if their use is substituted for abstinence monogamy or good judgment. More research and better data are required to bridge these gaps in knowledge: the risk of seroconversion among fully compl…
Anthropology and Epidemiology
Section I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.- Introduction: Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology.- Early Work in Anthropology and Epidemiology: From Social Medicine to the Germ Theory, 1840 to 1920.- Anthropology and Epidemiology in the Twentieth Century: A Selective History of Collaborative Projects and Theoretical Affinities, 1920 to 1970.- Section II: Infectious Diseases.- Epidemiological Research on Infectious Disease: Quantitative Ri…
Hospital Deaths in a High Risk Obstetric Population
Three thousand four hundred thirteen consecutive deliveries at a rural hospital in Zaire are examined. 85% of patients had goiters and 5% were cretins. Twenty maternal deaths occurred, or 5.9 per 1000 deliveries. Risk factors for maternal death included late presentation, advanced age (⩾ 35 years), no education and presence of goiter or cretinism. Ninety percent of women who died were in critical condition at admission, 45% had labored ⩾48 h and …
Letter
This article describes the author's findings that were similar to those reported by Ronsman and al. on the lack of a statistically significant association between birth interval and maternal mortality in unspecified developing countries. The author reports findings with less satisfactory data than Ronsman et al. The data were obtained on 594 maternal deaths from 450,000 hospital obstetric records. 5 controls were drawn for each case and matched b…
Assessing Recall and Understanding of Informed Consent in a Contraceptive Clinical Trial
Recall and understanding of information provided to contraceptive study participants in four sites were assessed. Analysis was completed of data for 70 women who were asked about their recollection of information and understanding of participation. Most women understood the purpose of the study. Their reasons for agreeing to participate varied by site and included wanting to try a new method, wanting to help others, and wishing to avoid pregnancy…
Assessing Survey Measures of Infant Birth Weight and Birth Size in Ecuador
The purpose of this study was to assess the utility of using maternal assessments of infant birth size as proxy measures for birth weight in Ecuador, a country in which a sizeable proportion of births take place at home, where birth weight is typically not recorded. Four thousand and seventy-eight women who experienced a live singleton birth between January 1992 and August 1994 were interviewed in the Ecuador Demographic and Maternal–Child Health…
Medicine (14 works) · Demography (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Obstetrics (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 works) · Research methodology (6 works) · Developing country (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)