Dr. Richard Walter Steketee MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
1455 Nw Leary Way Path-Macepa Seattle WA, 98107About
Richard Steketee is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Steketee specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Steketee participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 1976
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cerebral malaria in Malawian children hospitalized with Plasmodium falciparum infection.
- Malaria in pregnant women: research, epidemiology, policy and practice.
- Risk factors for HIV infection among asymptomatic pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic in western Kenya.
- HIV in the United States at the turn of the century: an epidemic in transition.
- Cost-effectiveness of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the prevention of malaria-associated low birth weight.
- Efficacy of a less-sensitive enzyme immunoassay (3A11-LS) for early diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus Type 1 infection in infants.
- Human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity and malaria as risk factors for third-trimester anemia in asymptomatic pregnant women in western Kenya.
- Reducing the risk of sexual HIV transmission: quantifying the per-act risk for HIV on the basis of choice of partner, sex act, and condom use.
- Malaria prevention in pregnancy: when will the prevention programme respond to
- Relationships between mefloquine blood levels, gender, and adverse reactions.
- Malaria and human immunodeficiency virus infection as risk factors for anemia in infants in Kisumu, western Kenya.
- HIV incidence in the United States, 1978-1999.
- The effect of dual infection with HIV and malaria on pregnancy outcome in western Kenya.
- HIV increases the risk of malaria in women of all gravidities in Kisumu, Kenya.
- Risk factors for malaria in pregnancy in an urban and peri-urban population in western Kenya.
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