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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1978
A hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor is transcribed. A discussion is presented which centers on H.R.12146, whose purposes are: (1) to establish a program for developing networks of community-based services to prevent initial and repeat pregnancies among adolescents; (2) to provide care…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Contraception, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
Testimony concerned: (1) difficulties and successes in obtaining private and public medical services experienced by Illinois citizens with health problems during pregancy; (2) Illinois' efforts to deal with high infant mortality, including descriptions of intervention programs, excerpts from the data report of Illinois' 1988 Human Services Plan,…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Community Programs, Crisis Intervention, Family Planning
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. – 1978
The materials contained in these hearings represent the statements of witnesses before one of the subcommittees of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives. Witnesses include members of Congress, a pediatrician from John Hopkins School of Medicine, HEW Secretary Califano, R. Sargent Shriver, and various…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Contraception
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
Testimony concerned: (1) problems a high-risk, low-income mother had in receiving prenatal care; (2) dimensions of the infant mortality problem in Chicago, Illinois; (3) programs of the Illinois Department of Public Aid (IDPA) that address the problem; (3) the need for the IDPA to design a plan to implement SOBRA (the 1986 Sixth Omnibus Budget…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Church Role, Community Programs, Crisis Intervention
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Hunger. – 1986
The Domestic Task Force of the House Select Committee on Hunger met to hear testimony on women and hunger in Appalachia and on food assistance programs and legislation, including H.R. 2100, the 1985 farm bill. Introductory remarks by task force members outline the bill's food assistance provisions, which include increased funding for food stamp…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Community Programs, Economic Factors, Eligibility
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
