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Veterans Administration, Washington, DC. Dept. of Medicine and Surgery. – 1975
Major contents of this report are the four major presentations made at a workshop designed to give 200 nursing service chiefs a uniform approach for upgrading and expanding skills and knowledge relevant to achieving the mission of the Veterans Administration (VA) Nursing Service. "Facing the Future" focuses on the VA Nursing Service as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Administrative Change, Community Health Services
Download full textOoms, Theodora; Herendeen, Lisa – 1990
This report presents highlights of a seminar which focused on the unique health care needs of adolescents. Comments by the following panelists are summarized: Christine Winquist Nord, research associate at Child Trends Inc.; John Sargent, an adolescent psychiatrist, pediatrician and family therapist at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Drug Abuse, Federal Programs
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
Peer reviewedJournal of School Health, 1995
A 1994 conference explored national issues and priorities related to school health nursing, identifying seven critical issues and related actions. Several papers discuss school nurse perspectives, federal agency efforts, issues, and priority actions. An annotated bibliography and information on National Nursing Coalition for School Health are…
Descriptors: Child Health, Codes of Ethics, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. – 1991
This publication includes proceedings from a fall 1989 meeting attended by representatives of projects funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Public Health Service as part of its infant mortality reduction initiative. It also contains abstracts describing the funded projects and a list of products available to others interested…
Descriptors: Case Records, Child Health, Congenital Impairments, Data Analysis
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (USDA), Washington, DC. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. – 1998
This report documents the proceedings of a 1998 symposium on the causes and prevention of childhood obesity sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion to focus attention on the growing problem of childhood obesity in the United States and the link between nutrition and health. Following opening…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
Friedman, Robert M.; Evans, Mary; Morrison-Rodriguez, Barbara; Kutash, Krista; Duchnowski, Al; Hernandez, Mario; Hodges, Sharon; Armstrong, Mary; Pires, Sheila; Stroul, Beth; Greenbaum, Paul; Brown, Eric; Lazear, Katherine – 2000
This paper describes each of eight current interrelated federally funded research projects conducted by the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health at the University of South Florida. For each project, information is provided on the project's background, purpose, methodology, and anticipated results. Project titles and principal…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Behavioral Science Research, Children
Ellis, Barbara Gray, Ed. – 1982
This workshop report presents excerpts of the panel discussions of 10 distinguished family researchers considering the feasibility of joint studies across the three Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration Institutes (the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Problems, Drug Abuse, Family Characteristics
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1968
The Conference on Early Childhood Education was held during Early Childhood Education Week (March 1968) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Conference participants included Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) school personnel responsible for the establishment and coordination of proposed BIA kindergartens, representatives of National, public, and voluntary…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anthropology, Community Role, Comprehensive Programs
Nellum (A.L.) and Associates, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report describes the purpose, process, and outcomes of the Symposium on "Policy and Program Issues Related to Child and Family Services to Black Americans," sponsored by the Division of Black American Affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). In stage one of the symposium task group activities, the participants, who came…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Children
Chelius, James, Ed. – 1986
This volume includes the following conference papers: "The Status and Direction of Workers' Compensation" (James R. Chelius); "The Minnesota Experience with Workers' Compensation Reform" (Steve Keefe); "The 1982 Changes in California" (Alan Tebb); "Two Rounds of Workers' Compensation Reform in Michigan" (H.…
Descriptors: Accidents, Administrator Attitudes, Asbestos, Comparative Analysis
Gim, Wever; Litwin, Tybel – 1980
Five case studies describe experiences in the resettlement of Indochinese refugees in Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Diego, California; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Des Moines, Iowa. The case studies focus on local government and community attitudes toward the refugees; patterns of resettlement; and the nature and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Role, Educational Needs
Wircenski, Jerry L., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Papers from the Tenth Annual Pennsylvania Conference on Postsecondary Occupational Education, which focused on new federal emphasis and postsecondary vocational education, are presented. Edited versions of discussions of the topics are also included. The following papers are included: "Adults--An Underdeveloped National Resource," by…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Career Education, Conferences
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1980
Eight papers from a one-day conference for lawyers, judges, and policy-makers discuss the effects on intergovernmental relations of the emerging body of laws, regulations, and court decisions governing federal grants and their recipients. The expanding importance of federal grants, notes an introduction to the papers, has meant both less leeway…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Community Development, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
