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de Ribeaux, Mary Beth – Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2016
The purpose of the National Conference was for attendees to: (1) Review research and policy recommendations and goals identified at the November 2015 "Environmental Health at School: Ignored Too Long" panel and facilitated workshop; (2) Hear about risks and exposures at schools and their impact on children; (3) Understand the Centers for…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Risk, Health Promotion, Child Health
Centers for Disease Control (DHHS/PHS), Atlanta, GA. – 1983
This report reviews, recounts, and assesses the accomplishments and progress made to date by many public health professionals engaged collectively in a nationwide health education-risk reduction program. Papers are presented outlining progress by health agencies, working alone or in collaboration, whose basic goals were: (1) inventory of statewide…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Drug Abuse, Government Role, Health Education
Condry, Sandra; And Others – 1981
Two federal interagency panels convened a research forum for the purpose of reaching consensus on research findings relating to five broad areas of concern for children and youth: health, education, social services, legal considerations, and economic factors. Experts volunteered to write working papers focusing on a single aspect of the broad…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Diseases, Economic Factors
Minckley, Barbara B., Ed.; Funk, Sandra N., Ed. – 1982
To increase political awareness and competence in the nursing profession, the papers in these proceedings identify political concerns affecting nursing and nursing education and explain how individuals and groups can become effectively involved in the political process. The proceedings contain: (1) "Update on National Nursing and Health Policy…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Medical Services, Nurses, Nursing
Peck, Magda G., Ed. – 1994
This report contains selected presentations from the 1993 Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference. Following welcoming remarks by Carolyn Slack, two presentations discuss improving urban maternal and child health (MCH) linkages. "Pittsburgh's Alliance for Infants," by Virginia Bowman, describes a comprehensive in-home…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Child Health
Jackson, John J., Ed.; Turkington, H. David, Ed. – 1981
These papers, presented during the 1981 convention of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, addressed eight major topics: (1) the physical education and sport profession in Canada; (2) physical fitness (community agencies, radiology, aging and physical activity, the effective physical education program, aerobic…
Descriptors: Athletics, Curriculum Development, Dance, Educational Trends
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1984
Ways to improve the training of undergraduate medical students in primary health care are identified, based on a seminar organized by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and the Government of the United Kingdom. Primary health care is concerned with preventing and treating illness and promoting health, based on applying…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Engel, C., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This collection gathers together several papers reflecting the state of the art in the development of community-based programs in health sciences education. Titles and authors are as follows: "Issues in Implementing a Problem-Based Learning Curriculum at the University of Sherbrooke" (Jacques E. Des Marchais; Bertrand Dumais);…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Community Health Services, Community Programs, Curriculum Development
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1981
A report of the 1981 Health Manpower Development Medium-Term Programme, sponsored by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, is presented. The document "European Regional Strategy for Attaining Health for All by the Year 2000" was reviewed, and attention was directed to the present structure of the Regional…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Role, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1980
A report of the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on the Training of Senior Public Health Administrators is presented. The working group met to review programs for specialized, advanced, and continuing training of senior public health administrators. WHO activities leading up to the working group and WHO's present policy and activities…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1980
A report on the technical discussions on continuing education of health personnel and its evaluation, held at the 1979 session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Europe is presented. For medical practitioners, a wide range of programs and systems is offered, depending on the social and political organization of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
Fuglesang, Andreas, Ed. – 1973
The objective of the two week long 1972 Dag Hammarskjold Seminar was to break away from traditional and theoretical concepts of information work in order to gain a practical insight into communication, especially as it applies to social and economic development. Fifty participants and lecturers from developed and developing countries in Europe and…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, Washington, DC. – 1988
A child born in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Singapore, or any of 12 other industrialized nations has a better chance of surviving his or her first year than does a child born in the United States. This is because too many babies are born too small, too many are born too soon, and too many mothers never get decent care…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth Weight, Community Programs, Employed Parents
Institute of Medicine (NAS), Washington, DC. – 1984
Proceedings of a 1984 workshop on the roles of U.S. colleges in community health care are presented. The objective was to identify common aspects of the experiences of a sample of U.S. colleges that might be relevant to providing health service programs that are in accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative of Health for All by the…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), College Role, Community Colleges, Community Health Services