Health service centers providing health care to migrants are listed by state in this booklet. A code system describes the services provided by the projects. Information listed for each project includes the project name, location, grantee, director, telephone number, service sites, services offered, periods during which the services are offered,…

This project was designed to serve a need recognized by individuals in the Massachusetts Department of Education. With increased interest and requests for assistance in program planning in health related areas, a need for curriculum guidelines in health education was identified. This report is divided into two parts. Part I contains the findings…

Results showed a significantly greater improvement in both the dental behavior and dental health of the children whose parents attended a dental session. (Author)

Suggests that the current federal approach be supplanted by a system of public health priorities to be decided on the basis of the number of persons affected by a specified sexually transmitted disease, the severity of the disease, the societal impact, and the desirability for governmental intervention in the course of events. (DS)

Sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission, the workshop concentrated on ways and means of delivering health services from prenatal care to adolescence with an accent on preventative medicine. (KR)

Successful programs established at the University of California at Irvine may serve as a model of student-produced, health-related courses for inclusion into the curricula of any school. (MM)

In this program for the professional preparation of health educators, school health and community health curriculums are interrelated. (MM)

This study was designed to determine how effective an instructional program about cancer prevention might be in changing the knowledge and behavior of teenage females. (MM)

Presents the history of federal health spending during the past three decades. (BB)

A participative health care program is described in which sixth-grade students and teachers, a school nurse, and a team from the community health center jointly determined program content and direction in order to motivate students to receive physical examinations. (MJB)

Briefly describes the efforts of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, working with predominantly black colleges, to become advocates for improving health care in communities surrounding their respective colleges. (Author/AM)

The challenges of educational accountability and the National Consumer Health and Promotion Act of 1976 make clear the present need for systematic action in evaluating the value and effectiveness of school health education programs. (MB)

Reviews and defines continuity of care, or long term care, as a potential economic catastrophe which requires strategic planning. Proposes a Medicare revision that provides integrated funding for acute, sub-acute, and long-term care as elements of continuity of care. (Author/ABB)

Describes Bellevue (Washington) School District's employee wellness program's successful efforts to (1) save lives by promoting healthy lifestyles, (2) boost morale by taking health services to the workplace, (3) improve on-the-job performance by providing inexpensive, convenient opportunities for exercise and weight loss, and (4) reduce staff…

The Duke University School of Medicine conducts a health testing and promotion program to increase its students' awareness of their own health. The long-term goal is to prevent them from becoming impaired, as physicians, by emotional problems or addiction to alcohol or other drugs. (Author/MSE)