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Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1985
Three articles suggest that the roots of health promotion in business and industry extend back into the early twentieth century: (1) "Health Programs of Business Concerns" (Schirmer); (2) "Teach Health, Not Disease" (Bauer); and (3) "A Leader in Health Education: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company" (Means). (CB)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Fringe Benefits, Health Education, Health Programs
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Turpin, Robin S.; Sinacore, James M., Eds. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1991
Eight papers on multisite evaluation are presented. Topics include organizational and methodological issues, program theory, coordination of staffing, and the program review team approach. Programs and policies evaluated include those focusing on adult day health care, spousal assault, mental health, job-training for single mothers, criminal…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Coordination, Evaluation Methods, Health Programs
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Journal of School Health, 1983
Three articles describe health programs in the People's Republic of China: (1) "Health Education in Schools" (Nicholas K. Iammarino); (2) "Health Care System and Nursing" (Veronica D. Feeg); and (3) "Family Planning Education" (Marian V. Hamburg). (CJ)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life Education, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
Mitchell, Anne; Gage, Diane – Good Housekeeping, 1992
This special issue on child care presents articles on children's health, day care, grandparents, father-child relationships, pregnancy after age 40, children's dental care, children's moral development, parties for children, children's fighting, fashions in children's clothes, sibling relationships, and health care programs for children. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Child Health, Child Rearing
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Neligh, Gordon – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1990
Chapters included are (1) introduction; (2) mental health problems affecting Indian people; (3) impact of mental health problems on Indian communities; (4) the service delivery system; (5) treatment modalities; (6) mental health providers; (7) holding the system together; and (7) a model Indian mental health system. (KS)
Descriptors: American Indians, Delivery Systems, Epidemiology, Mental Disorders
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Kamis-Gould, Edna; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Three studies are presented, which illustrate situations in which researchers and funders agreed on the primacy of either the experimental or pragmatic paradigms but acknowledged a role for the other. The studies involved evaluations of mental health care, information systems, and a curriculum for behavioral and academic dysfunction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Children
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Green, Rex S., Ed.; Newman, Frederick L., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
The six articles of this special section address the organizational context that shapes utilization of mental health services, the relevance of data elements and results to decision making, and assuring the validity of evaluation results. Theoretical and practical concerns are considered. (SLD)
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Coping, Data Collection, Decision Making
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Evaluation and Program Planning, 1995
The seven articles of this special section explore evaluation in South Africa. Particular emphasis is placed on policy development in the areas of health, education, and housing and on efforts to alleviate the legacy of apartheid. Participative and quantitative efforts are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Simson, Sharon P., Ed.; Wilson, Laura B., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Seven papers examine key minority populations that are encompassed in local, state, and federal levels of health program planning. The papers are based on methods of evaluation and planning. Projections on the future course of minority health programing are presented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Aging (Individuals), Black Community, Community Programs