Raymond Neutra
Biographic Data
| ID | 629007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Neutra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Neutra |
| SIGNATURE | NEUTRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Health and Human Services Agency |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Health Themes in Survival Through Design: A Son’s Appreciation
“House and Open-Air School in One”
The Lovell Health House (1927–1929) by Richard Neutra for Dr. Phillip Lovell and his wife, Leah Lovell, was a turning point in modern architecture. The house not only carried out Phillip Lovell’s principles of healthy living, it also incorporated a school conducted along the progressive educational theories embraced by Leah Lovell. This article identifies the educational features in Neutra’s plan. Interviews with one of the last remaining student…
Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California county: The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Level Factors
Should One Start or Continue a Line of Research? Stakeholders' Interests and Ethical Frameworks Give Different Answers
Society often turns to scientists to decide what research should be done, but the author has observed that scientists bring different interests and ethical frameworks to this decision than do other societal stakeholders. These differences are described. When there are public policy arguments about whether to start or maintain a line of public interest research, it is important to make explicit the interests and assumptions of the various stakehol…
Childhood asthma along the United States/ Mexico border: Hospitalizations and air quality in two California counties
Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, there has been an increasing need to monitor environmental health trends that may be related to the rapid industrialization of the United States/Mexico border. We studied two counties on the California/Baja California border to obtain baseline data on trends in childhood asthma hospitalizations and two pollutants that aggravate asthma, ozone and particulate matter (less than 10…
Shamanic Odyssey: The Lushootseed Salish Journey to the Land of the Dead
Hand Trembling, Frenzy Witchcraft, and Moth Madness: A Study of Navajo Seizure Disorders
Hand Trembling, Frenzy Witchcraft, and Moth Madness: A Study of Navajo Seizure Disorders
According to traditional Navajo belief, seizures are the result of sibling incest, sexual witchcraft, or possession by a supernatural spirit associations that have kept such disorders from being known outside Navajo families. This new study is concerned with discovering why the Navajos have accorded seizures such importance and determining their meaning in the larger context of Navajo culture. The book is based on a 14-year study of some 40 Navaj…
Exposure to aerial malathion application and the occurrence of congenital anomalies and low birthweight
The association between exposure to low dose malathion, after its aerial application to 13,000 square miles in the San Francisco Bay area, and the occurrence of birth defects and low birthweight was examined using newborn hospital discharge data and vital records. No biologically plausible pattern of association was found. Limitations in the data and analysis are discussed
Characteristics of hazardous material spills from reporting systems in California
Data on hazardous material releases that occurred between January 1, 1982 and September 30, 1983 in California were obtained from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The majority of incidents involved highway transport of hazardous materials, although some information was available on air, rail, and stationary facility releases. Vehicle accidents and failure of or damage to the container were the mos…
The Case-Control Method in Medical Care Evaluation
The case-control method has been applied extensively to the study of chronic diseases, largely because of its advantage in cost and statistical power over other study designs. However, problems in ensuring the validity of case-control results have led to certain reservations regarding the general utility of the method. We discuss how several of the major validity problems in case-control studies of chronic disease are limited or absent in case-co…
Life careers of Navajo epileptics and convulsive hysterics
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling'. D S Shepard, and R NeutraCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.9.954 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Impact of Patient Perceptions on Compliance with Treatment for Hypertension
Patient noncompliance with medical regimens is a major obstacle in achieving hypertension control. In this study the relationships between patients' perceptions of health, disease and medical treatment and compliance were examined in personal interviews with 142 patients under treatment for hypertension. Compliance was measured in terms of blood pressure control, self-reported medication-taking, and appointment keeping. A multivariate log linear …
Appendicitis: Decreasing Normal Removals Without Increasing Perforations
There is wide interhospital variation in the removal rates of histologically normal appendices, and variation also in appendectomy rates among countries and among hospital catchment areas. Decision theory suggests that better patient workup and careful observation of doubtful cases result in improved discrimination between appendicitis patients and those with nonspecific abdominal pain. By improving the data base and weighing evidence with care, …
Cultural expectations versus reality in navajo seizure patterns and sick roles
A pitfall in sampling medical visits
Samples of outpatient visits often must be used to identify users of a health facility with a given chronic condition. Such samples can lead to biases, however, because patients with more frequent visits are overrepresented. These biases can be avoided by a weighting procedure in which each sampled visit is weighted inversely to the number of clinic visits made by that patient during the sample period. This procedure proved critical in estimating…
Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California county: The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Level Factors
A pitfall in sampling medical visits
Samples of outpatient visits often must be used to identify users of a health facility with a given chronic condition. Such samples can lead to biases, however, because patients with more frequent visits are overrepresented. These biases can be avoided by a weighting procedure in which each sampled visit is weighted inversely to the number of clinic visits made by that patient during the sample period. This procedure proved critical in estimating…
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling'. D S Shepard, and R NeutraCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.9.954 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Characteristics of hazardous material spills from reporting systems in California
Data on hazardous material releases that occurred between January 1, 1982 and September 30, 1983 in California were obtained from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The majority of incidents involved highway transport of hazardous materials, although some information was available on air, rail, and stationary facility releases. Vehicle accidents and failure of or damage to the container were the mos…
Exposure to aerial malathion application and the occurrence of congenital anomalies and low birthweight
The association between exposure to low dose malathion, after its aerial application to 13,000 square miles in the San Francisco Bay area, and the occurrence of birth defects and low birthweight was examined using newborn hospital discharge data and vital records. No biologically plausible pattern of association was found. Limitations in the data and analysis are discussed
Life careers of Navajo epileptics and convulsive hysterics
Cultural expectations versus reality in navajo seizure patterns and sick roles
A pitfall in sampling medical visits
Samples of outpatient visits often must be used to identify users of a health facility with a given chronic condition. Such samples can lead to biases, however, because patients with more frequent visits are overrepresented. These biases can be avoided by a weighting procedure in which each sampled visit is weighted inversely to the number of clinic visits made by that patient during the sample period. This procedure proved critical in estimating…
Impact of Patient Perceptions on Compliance with Treatment for Hypertension
Patient noncompliance with medical regimens is a major obstacle in achieving hypertension control. In this study the relationships between patients' perceptions of health, disease and medical treatment and compliance were examined in personal interviews with 142 patients under treatment for hypertension. Compliance was measured in terms of blood pressure control, self-reported medication-taking, and appointment keeping. A multivariate log linear …
Appendicitis: Decreasing Normal Removals Without Increasing Perforations
There is wide interhospital variation in the removal rates of histologically normal appendices, and variation also in appendectomy rates among countries and among hospital catchment areas. Decision theory suggests that better patient workup and careful observation of doubtful cases result in improved discrimination between appendicitis patients and those with nonspecific abdominal pain. By improving the data base and weighing evidence with care, …
Life careers of Navajo epileptics and convulsive hysterics
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling
Addendum to article on 'visit-based sampling'. D S Shepard, and R NeutraCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.69.9.954 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Case-Control Method in Medical Care Evaluation
The case-control method has been applied extensively to the study of chronic diseases, largely because of its advantage in cost and statistical power over other study designs. However, problems in ensuring the validity of case-control results have led to certain reservations regarding the general utility of the method. We discuss how several of the major validity problems in case-control studies of chronic disease are limited or absent in case-co…
Characteristics of hazardous material spills from reporting systems in California
Data on hazardous material releases that occurred between January 1, 1982 and September 30, 1983 in California were obtained from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The majority of incidents involved highway transport of hazardous materials, although some information was available on air, rail, and stationary facility releases. Vehicle accidents and failure of or damage to the container were the mos…
Exposure to aerial malathion application and the occurrence of congenital anomalies and low birthweight
The association between exposure to low dose malathion, after its aerial application to 13,000 square miles in the San Francisco Bay area, and the occurrence of birth defects and low birthweight was examined using newborn hospital discharge data and vital records. No biologically plausible pattern of association was found. Limitations in the data and analysis are discussed
Hand Trembling, Frenzy Witchcraft, and Moth Madness: A Study of Navajo Seizure Disorders
According to traditional Navajo belief, seizures are the result of sibling incest, sexual witchcraft, or possession by a supernatural spirit associations that have kept such disorders from being known outside Navajo families. This new study is concerned with discovering why the Navajos have accorded seizures such importance and determining their meaning in the larger context of Navajo culture. The book is based on a 14-year study of some 40 Navaj…
Hand Trembling, Frenzy Witchcraft, and Moth Madness: A Study of Navajo Seizure Disorders
Shamanic Odyssey: The Lushootseed Salish Journey to the Land of the Dead
Childhood asthma along the United States/ Mexico border: Hospitalizations and air quality in two California counties
Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, there has been an increasing need to monitor environmental health trends that may be related to the rapid industrialization of the United States/Mexico border. We studied two counties on the California/Baja California border to obtain baseline data on trends in childhood asthma hospitalizations and two pollutants that aggravate asthma, ozone and particulate matter (less than 10…
Should One Start or Continue a Line of Research? Stakeholders' Interests and Ethical Frameworks Give Different Answers
Society often turns to scientists to decide what research should be done, but the author has observed that scientists bring different interests and ethical frameworks to this decision than do other societal stakeholders. These differences are described. When there are public policy arguments about whether to start or maintain a line of public interest research, it is important to make explicit the interests and assumptions of the various stakehol…
Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California county: The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Level Factors
Public Health Themes in Survival Through Design: A Son’s Appreciation
“House and Open-Air School in One”
The Lovell Health House (1927–1929) by Richard Neutra for Dr. Phillip Lovell and his wife, Leah Lovell, was a turning point in modern architecture. The house not only carried out Phillip Lovell’s principles of healthy living, it also incorporated a school conducted along the progressive educational theories embraced by Leah Lovell. This article identifies the educational features in Neutra’s plan. Interviews with one of the last remaining student…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Epilepsy research and treatment (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Navajo (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Demography (3 works)