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Bicycle-mounted child seats. Injury risk and prevention

Sargent, J D; Peck, M G; Weitzman, M
Little information is available about bicycle-mounted child seats despite their general use for a decade. We analyzed two existing data sets to gain information about frequency, trend, and characteristics of bicycle-mounted child seat injuries to children 5 years old and younger. Available data suggest an increased frequency of these injuries, with the rate of passenger injuries rising from 17% to 28% of all reported bicycle-related injuries to children in this age group in California during the years 1977 to 1986. In a detailed sample of 52 injuries related to the use of bicycle-mounted child seats, 42% occurred when the bicycle crashed or tipped over and 25% occurred when the child fell out of the seat. Sixty-five percent involved the head and face, and 27% of the head injuries were serious. Substantial morbidity associated with these injuries could be amellorated if children using these seats wore appropriate bicycle helmets
PMID: 3381780
ISSN: 0002-922x
CID: 71435

Children at risk : current social and medical challenges

Zuckerman, Barry S; Weitzman, Michael; Alpert, Joel J
Philadelphia : Saunders, 1988
Extent: p. 1169-1452
ISBN: n/a
CID: 1192

Severity of illness: concepts and measurements

Stein RE; Gortmaker SL; Perrin EC; Perrin JM; Pless IB; Walker DK; Weitzman M
PMID: 2892059
ISSN: 0140-6736
CID: 62513

Social barriers faced by adolescent parents and their children

Spivak, H; Weitzman, M
Pregnancy and childbearing are well recognized as having significant, long-term consequences for teenagers. Recent literature documents an array of negative outcomes for children born to adolescents, with a range of factors identified as contributing to the problems observed in these children. These include (1) the characteristics of those teenagers most likely to become parents, (2) the social and economic consequences of early childbearing, (3) the increased biologic vulnerability of children born to teenagers, and (4) the nature of parenting by teenagers. It has been acknowledged that adolescent parents tend to come from high-risk families, have poor academic achievement, and live in our most disadvantaged communities and therefore, biologic, economic, and behavioral factors contribute to the increased likelihood of teenagers having children who are vulnerable to physical and developmental problems. Teenaged parents face many obstacles to economic and social success, and these further influence the environment in which their children grow up. Adolescents also experience many difficulties in adjusting to parenthood and display a range of suboptimal parenting practices. Whereas some of these factors appear highly resistant to change, others have clear clinical, programmatic, and policy implications
PMID: 3625950
ISSN: 0098-7484
CID: 71453

Why adolescents do not attend school. The views of students and parents

Klerman, L V; Weitzman, M; Alpert, J J; Lamb, G A; Kayne, H; Gerominini, K R; Rose, L; Cohen, L
Despite the magnitude and importance of the problem, little is known about why many students are absent from school. This study assessed what a sample of excessively absent students and their parents believed were the reasons for the students' absences. In response to an open-ended question about their main reason for absence, almost half of the students reported a health-related reason. When asked whether any of 15 potential problems contributed to their absence, many reported common and acute physical illnesses, headaches or stomachaches, and other aches or pains. Half mentioned factors relating to low motivation or a concern about the school environment. The parents' responses were remarkably similar except they were more likely to cite emotional problems of the student, school violence, and racial problems. When individual student's responses were compared with those of his or her parents, agreement on individual items were little better than would be expected by chance
PMID: 3667396
ISSN: 0197-0070
CID: 71436

Excessive school absences

Weitzman M
ORIGINAL:0006043
ISSN: 0065-2407
CID: 71795

When pediatric patients becom parents

Weitzman M
ORIGINAL:0006044
ISSN: 0191-9601
CID: 71796

High-risk youth and health: the case of excessive school absence

Weitzman, M; Alpert, J J; Klerman, L V; Kayne, H; Lamb, G A; Geromini, K R; Kane, K T; Rose, L
Excessive school absence is a major educational and social problem in the United States, yet very little is known about its etiology or how to prevent or ameliorate it. This paper reports results from a series of related studies conducted in seven Boston middle schools (grades 6, 7, and 8) to test the hypotheses that health problems and unmet health needs are major characteristics distinguishing excessively absent students from regular attenders and that a health-oriented approach using medically mediated interventions is effective in reducing absences among excessively absent students. There were no significant differences between regular attenders and excessively absent students on multiple measures of student and family health status, health habits, and health service utilization patterns in a case-control study. The intervention program was not associated with a significant decrease in absence school-wide or for participating students. We conclude that demographic and educational characteristics of students exert a greater effect on their behavior in regard to absence from school than do health status or receipt of health services and that a health-oriented approach, such as the one used here, will not have a major impact on what remains one of the most profound educational and social problems involving children in the United States today
PMID: 3737308
ISSN: 0031-4005
CID: 71437

When Celtics mislead youths [Newspaper Article]

Weitzman M; Spivak H
ORIGINAL:0006052
ISSN: 0743-1791
CID: 71804

Chronic illness, psychosocial problems, and school absences. Results of a survey of one county

Weitzman, M; Walker, D K; Gortmaker, S
The number of days absent from school during the 1979-80 school year for 573 children aged 6-17 years in Berkshire County, Massachusetts was ascertained by parent reporting in a random household survey. Children with a wide range of chronic health impairments were reported as missing more school than their healthy peers (8.7 days vs. 5.8, p less than .001). Although there was a trend for children reported as having functional impairments to miss more school than those with chronic conditions without functional impairments (11.0 vs. 8.1), the difference was not statistically significant. Children with a variety of reported psychosocial difficulties missed more school than those without psychosocial difficulties for the sample as a whole and for those with reported chronic conditions. These findings document support for the assumption that children with a wide range of physical and psychological problems miss more school than their healthy peers and illustrate that the etiology of school absences is multifactoral and reflects behavioral as well as purely physical phenomena
PMID: 3948456
ISSN: 0009-9228
CID: 71403