A speech concerning Health Career Programs, presented at the annual meeting of the American School Health Association, San Diego, California, October 15, 1972. (JC)

Discusses an athletic medicine program for women utilizing a team approach and stressing the importance of prevention of injuries as well as the care of the acutely injured athlete. (Author/RK)

Presents the American College Health Association's positions on both national health care plans and health care programs which relate to mental health. (RK)

It was the intent of this study to determine if fear of negative reactions from the community was having a crippling effect on sex education programs in the state of Illinois and if public and Catholic administrators perceived the importance of sex education differently. (Author)

A Health Opinionnaire'' was constructed to evaluate student concepts in nine areas of health education; results are given. (SP)

The expertise of Extension or community health educators can be used to mobilize actual and potential patients, professionals, lay people, community groups and specific agencies; program innovations at the state and local levels in Maryland are reviewed. (Editor)

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program of the Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, seeks to improve the diets of low income families using paid nonprofessional workers called program aides, supervised by professional home economists, to deliver services. (Author/JM)

Describes local Head Start programs designed to provide a system of comprehensive health care for children to receive after they leave Head Start. (NH)

Drug education programs must account for the values of the students at whom such education is directed. Students' commitments to fairness, consistency, compassion, and reasonableness must be honored. Society's laws run counter to students' values, making the role of the drug educator difficult if not impossible. (Author)

The authors present a curriculum for the comprehensive health educator. This program will enable the student to participate in the problem solving seminars and field work which will prepare him to attack the health education problems that he will face on the job. (Author)