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| Wendy MaxSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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The economic burden of breast cancer in CaliforniaWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 116:201-7. 2009..Regular screening and access to treatment for all women will allow the disease to be diagnosed earlier, the prognosis improved, and the economic burden reduced...- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among children exposed to secondhand smoke: A logistic regression analysis of secondary dataWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States Electronic address
Int J Nurs Stud 50:797-806. 2013..A growing body of literature examines the association of postnatal secondhand smoke exposure with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, but the findings are mixed... 
Deaths from secondhand smoke exposure in the United States: economic implicationsWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, Suite 340, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 102:2173-80. 2012..We estimated the number of deaths attributable to secondhand smoke (SHS), years of potential life lost (YPLL), and value of lost productivity for different US racial/ethnic groups in 2006...- Exposure to secondhand smoke at home and at work in CaliforniaWendy Max
University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, Institute for Health and Aging, 3333 California St, Ste 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Public Health Rep 127:81-8. 2012..We estimated self-reported secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in California at home and at work... - Economics on trial: the use and abuse of economic methods in third party tobacco litigationWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Tob Control 15:iv77-83. 2006..To analyse how the tobacco industry responded to economic models and methods used in third party payer tobacco litigation that has occurred since 1994... - Who is exposed to secondhand smoke? Self-reported and serum cotinine measured exposure in the U.S., 1999-2006Wendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:1633-48. 2009..Using serum cotinine to measure exposure yields much higher prevalence rates than self-reports. Rates of SHS exposure remain high, but cotinine levels are declining for most groups... - The disproportionate cost of smoking for African Americans in CaliforniaWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, 3333 California St, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 100:152-8. 2010..We estimated the economic impact of smoking on African Americans in California in 2002, including smoking-attributable health care expenditures and productivity losses from smoking-caused mortality... - The cost of smoking for California's Hispanic communityWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 13:248-54. 2011..The economic impact of smoking for California's Hispanic population for 2002 was estimated. The estimates include smoking-attributable health care expenditures and productivity losses from smoking-caused mortality... 
The economic burden of gynecologic cancers in California, 1998Wendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Gynecol Oncol 88:96-103. 2003..Our aim was to estimate the direct and indirect costs of gynecologic cancers including cervical, ovarian, and uterine cancer in California in 1998...- The economic burden of prostate cancer, California, 1998Wendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Cancer 94:2906-13. 2002..This article reviews previous studies of the annual cost of all cancers and of prostate cancer in the United States and California and estimates the direct and indirect costs of prostate cancer in California in 1998... - Secondhand smoke exposure at home in rural ChinaTingting Yao
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:109-15. 2012..This study estimated secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home among nonsmoking children (age 0-18) and adults (age ≥ 19) in rural China, and examined associated socio-demographic factors... - Evaluation of the economic impact of California's Tobacco Control Program: a dynamic model approachLeonard S Miller
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Tob Control 19:i68-76. 2010..To evaluate the long-term net economic impact of the California Tobacco Control Program... - Validity study of the K6 scale as a measure of moderate mental distress based on mental health treatment need and utilizationJudith J Prochaska
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 94143 0984, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 21:88-97. 2012..The findings support expanded use and analysis of the K6 scale in quantifying and examining correlates of mental distress at a moderate, yet still clinically relevant, level... - The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United StatesWendy Max
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Violence Vict 19:259-72. 2004..3 billion. Intimate partner violence is costly in the US. The potential savings from efforts to reduce this violence are substantial. More comprehensive data are needed to refine cost estimates and monitor costs over time... - Women's Initiative for Nonsmoking-VII: evaluation of health service utilization and costs among women smokers with cardiovascular diseaseErika Sivarajan Froelicher
Department of Physiological, Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, 94143 0610, USA
J Cardiopulm Rehabil 24:218-28. 2004.... - Cigarette smoking and serious psychological distress: a population-based study of California adultsHai Yen Sung
Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, University of California at San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 13:1183-92. 2011..This study examines differences in smoking behaviors between adults with and without serious psychological distress (SPD) in California, which has the longest running comprehensive tobacco control program in the world... - Cost-driven injury prevention: creating an innovative plan to save lives with limited resourcesRochelle A Dicker
Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
J Trauma 70:985-90. 2011..Our hypothesis is that pedestrian injury creates a tremendous public funding burden and that hotspot sites can be mapped based on corresponding hospital costs...