Thomas E Kottke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5538080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas E Kottke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kottke |
| SIGNATURE | KOTTKE T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Cardiology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0349-9404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Promoting Fish Consumption Messages
Objectives: Through focus groups, we aimed to understand ways to promote safe and healthy fish consumption among Hmong women in Minnesota. Methods: English-speaking Hmong women aged 18-40 were eligible to participate in 90-minute focus groups. Through our questions, we sought to gain understanding of the women's health-seeking behaviors and to obtain feedback on current messaging. We recorded the focus groups and transcribed and double-coded the …
A behavioural economics approach to improving healthy food selection among food pantry clients
Objective To test the effect of a behavioural economics intervention in two food pantries on the nutritional quality of foods available at the pantries and the foods selected by adults visiting food pantries. Design An intervention (SuperShelf) was implemented in two food pantries (Sites A and B), with two other pantries (Sites C and D) serving as a control for pantry outcomes. The intervention aimed to increase the amount and variety of healthy …
Explaining the Decrease in U.S. Deaths from Coronary Disease, 1980–2000
BACKGROUND: Mortality from coronary heart disease in the United States has decreased substantially in recent decades. We conducted a study to determine how much of this decrease could be explained by the use of medical and surgical treatments as opposed to changes in cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: We applied a previously validated statistical model, IMPACT, to data on the use and effectiveness of specific cardiac treatments and on changes …
Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Care
OBJECTIVES: Despite much health care interest in quality and Continuous Quality Improvement, there is little quantitative information about it. The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes, activities, and organizational cultures concerning Continuous Quality Improvement in a group of Midwestern primary care clinics. METHODS: Three surveys of the clinicians, nurses, and other staff in 44 primary care clinics in the metropolitan area of …
Physician-delivered smoking cessation advice
Objective-To identify the factors that physicians believe impair their ability to provide smoking cessation advice to their patients. Design - Ethnographic interviews of physicians. Setting - Non-academic primary care practice. Subjects -18 of 27 physicians who had recently participated in the intervention group of a randomised clinical trial to increase the rate at which physicians give smoking cessation advice. Main outcome measures -Factors th…
Beliefs and attitudes of Minnesota pharmacists regarding tobacco sales and smoking cessation counseling
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Reimbursement and Insurance in the United States
The United States health care system is a unique and uncoordinated combination of private and public programmes involving em ployers, government, insurance companies, and individual consumers. Although spending on health care comprised 12 % of the US gross domestic product in 1990, it is estimated that 35-7 million Americans are uninsured, three quarters of whom are fulltime workers and their dependents.1 Also, it is estimated that as many as 40 …
Cost-effectiveness of the North Karelia Hypertension Program 1972-1977
The North Karelia Hypertension Program was initiated in 1972 as part of the North Karelia Project. This article examines the costs and effects of the first 5 years of the project. There were 288 fewer than expected fatal strokes and myocardial infarctions during the period; 134 of these are attributable to the hypertension program. The costs of the hypertension program totalled $5.16 million. Drugs consumed 86% of this cost. Using the zero discou…
Changes in perceived heart disease risk and health during a community-based heart disease prevention program
To test whether the cardiovascular disease declines in North Karelia were accompanied by subjective improvements in health, we analyzed responses to two questions about perceived risk of heart disease and health status on independent random population samples surveyed 10 years apart. Age stratified perceived risk of heart disease declined significantly more (p less than .01) and age stratified perceived health status improved significantly more i…
Coronary heart disease mortality trends in Minnesota, 1960-80
Age-adjusted mortality rates and trends from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Minnesota for the years 1960 to 1980 differed among eight health service areas. Regression of ten socioeconomic and demographic factors and intensive care and coronary care unit beds on area CHD mortality levels and slopes revealed a significant positive association only for levels of welfare income-maintenance assistance with CHD mortality levels; there were no associat…
A Decline in Earning Losses Associated With a Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Project
Permanent and temporary disability pension award data and survey data were used to estimate the lower bound of earning losses related to cardiovascular disease during a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program in Eastern Finland. Earning losses due to death totaled $39.94 million but were not affected by the project. Earning losses due to permanent disability totalled +29.01 million and were $4.25 million less than expected (p le…
Changes in perceived heart disease risk and health during a community-based heart disease prevention program
To test whether the cardiovascular disease declines in North Karelia were accompanied by subjective improvements in health, we analyzed responses to two questions about perceived risk of heart disease and health status on independent random population samples surveyed 10 years apart. Age stratified perceived risk of heart disease declined significantly more (p less than .01) and age stratified perceived health status improved significantly more i…
Coronary heart disease mortality trends in Minnesota, 1960-80
Age-adjusted mortality rates and trends from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Minnesota for the years 1960 to 1980 differed among eight health service areas. Regression of ten socioeconomic and demographic factors and intensive care and coronary care unit beds on area CHD mortality levels and slopes revealed a significant positive association only for levels of welfare income-maintenance assistance with CHD mortality levels; there were no associat…
A Decline in Earning Losses Associated With a Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Project
Permanent and temporary disability pension award data and survey data were used to estimate the lower bound of earning losses related to cardiovascular disease during a community-based cardiovascular disease prevention program in Eastern Finland. Earning losses due to death totaled $39.94 million but were not affected by the project. Earning losses due to permanent disability totalled +29.01 million and were $4.25 million less than expected (p le…
Changes in perceived heart disease risk and health during a community-based heart disease prevention program
To test whether the cardiovascular disease declines in North Karelia were accompanied by subjective improvements in health, we analyzed responses to two questions about perceived risk of heart disease and health status on independent random population samples surveyed 10 years apart. Age stratified perceived risk of heart disease declined significantly more (p less than .01) and age stratified perceived health status improved significantly more i…
Coronary heart disease mortality trends in Minnesota, 1960-80
Age-adjusted mortality rates and trends from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Minnesota for the years 1960 to 1980 differed among eight health service areas. Regression of ten socioeconomic and demographic factors and intensive care and coronary care unit beds on area CHD mortality levels and slopes revealed a significant positive association only for levels of welfare income-maintenance assistance with CHD mortality levels; there were no associat…
Cost-effectiveness of the North Karelia Hypertension Program 1972-1977
The North Karelia Hypertension Program was initiated in 1972 as part of the North Karelia Project. This article examines the costs and effects of the first 5 years of the project. There were 288 fewer than expected fatal strokes and myocardial infarctions during the period; 134 of these are attributable to the hypertension program. The costs of the hypertension program totalled $5.16 million. Drugs consumed 86% of this cost. Using the zero discou…
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Reimbursement and Insurance in the United States
The United States health care system is a unique and uncoordinated combination of private and public programmes involving em ployers, government, insurance companies, and individual consumers. Although spending on health care comprised 12 % of the US gross domestic product in 1990, it is estimated that 35-7 million Americans are uninsured, three quarters of whom are fulltime workers and their dependents.1 Also, it is estimated that as many as 40 …
Beliefs and attitudes of Minnesota pharmacists regarding tobacco sales and smoking cessation counseling
Physician-delivered smoking cessation advice
Objective-To identify the factors that physicians believe impair their ability to provide smoking cessation advice to their patients. Design - Ethnographic interviews of physicians. Setting - Non-academic primary care practice. Subjects -18 of 27 physicians who had recently participated in the intervention group of a randomised clinical trial to increase the rate at which physicians give smoking cessation advice. Main outcome measures -Factors th…
Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Care
OBJECTIVES: Despite much health care interest in quality and Continuous Quality Improvement, there is little quantitative information about it. The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes, activities, and organizational cultures concerning Continuous Quality Improvement in a group of Midwestern primary care clinics. METHODS: Three surveys of the clinicians, nurses, and other staff in 44 primary care clinics in the metropolitan area of …
Explaining the Decrease in U.S. Deaths from Coronary Disease, 1980–2000
BACKGROUND: Mortality from coronary heart disease in the United States has decreased substantially in recent decades. We conducted a study to determine how much of this decrease could be explained by the use of medical and surgical treatments as opposed to changes in cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: We applied a previously validated statistical model, IMPACT, to data on the use and effectiveness of specific cardiac treatments and on changes …
A behavioural economics approach to improving healthy food selection among food pantry clients
Objective To test the effect of a behavioural economics intervention in two food pantries on the nutritional quality of foods available at the pantries and the foods selected by adults visiting food pantries. Design An intervention (SuperShelf) was implemented in two food pantries (Sites A and B), with two other pantries (Sites C and D) serving as a control for pantry outcomes. The intervention aimed to increase the amount and variety of healthy …
Promoting Fish Consumption Messages
Objectives: Through focus groups, we aimed to understand ways to promote safe and healthy fish consumption among Hmong women in Minnesota. Methods: English-speaking Hmong women aged 18-40 were eligible to participate in 90-minute focus groups. Through our questions, we sought to gain understanding of the women's health-seeking behaviors and to obtain feedback on current messaging. We recorded the focus groups and transcribed and double-coded the …
Medicine (10 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (4 works) · Disease (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works)