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Direct linkPelham, Anabel, Ed.; Sills, Elizabeth, Ed.; Eisman, Gerald S., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
Starting from the premise that the health status, vulnerability to accidents and disease, and life spans are determined by the organization, delivery, and financing (or lack thereof) of health care, this book explores how educators and community caretakers teach the complex web of inter-connection between the micro level of individual health and…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health, Public Health, Health Promotion
Download full textBrown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2008
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Public Health, Partnerships in Education
Trimble, Joseph E., Ed.; Beauvais, Fred, Ed. – 2001
Substance abuse continues to be one of the most damaging and chronic health problems faced by Indian people. American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) substance abuse prevention and treatment programs must be framed within the broader context of the widening health disparities between AI/AN communities and the general population. Successful…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Community Health Services
Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network, Parramatta. – 2002
Each issue in the 2002 edition of the Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network (ATMHN) newsletter represents a theme critical to mental health practitioners. The Winter 2002 issue features articles on the psychological consequences of interpreters in relation to working with torture and trauma clients, addressing language issues on mental…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Health Services, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Christine, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bk), 2007
"Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 7" is the newest volume in a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries
Burns, W. David, Ed. – 1999
This monograph presents eight essays that reflect lessons learned and insights gained from a project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities Program for Health and Higher Education (PHHE) to help leaders improve undergraduate learning by engaging higher education in the solution to preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Role, Democracy, Epidemiology
Anderson, Robert, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1990
Health promotion redirects thinking about health by: reasserting its social and political aspects; ensuring the people the power to define their own health concerns; and placing health more clearly in the context of other aims in life. This compilation of 41 articles in 8 sections attempts to document this process of redirection of thought. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services
Peer reviewedLeviton, Laura C., Ed.; And Others – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1990
Seven essays on efforts of evaluate prevention programs aimed at the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. Topics include public health psychology, mathematical models of epidemiology, estimates of incubation periods, ethnographic evaluations of AIDS prevention programs, an AIDS education model, theory-based evaluation, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Community Programs, Educational Psychology, Epidemiology
Academy for Educational Development, Inc., New York, NY. – 1991
This booklet contains excerpted remarks by government and public health officials concerning social marketing and its use. It is noted that the agencies they represent are among those that are considered pioneers in applying social marketing to some of the toughest problems facing America. Topics concerning government, public health, and the use…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Disease Control, Federal Government
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. – 1994
This information packet contains eight two- to three-page publications from the American Psychological Association series "Psychological Services for the 21st Century, Psychology's Role in Health Care: Studying Human Behavior; Promoting Health; Saving Health Care Dollars; Providing Mental Health Services." The focus of the series is the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Females, Health Care Costs
Rootman, Irving, Ed.; Goodstadt, Michael, Ed.; Hyndman, Brian, Ed.; McQueen, David V., Ed.; Potvin, Louise, Ed.; Springett, Jane, Ed.; Ziglio, Erio, Ed. – 2001
This book includes a collection of papers on the theories, methodologies, and practice of health promotion initiatives in Europe and the Americas. The 23 chapters are: (1) "A Framework for Health Promotion Evaluation" (Irving Rootman, Michael Goodstadt, Louise Potvin, and Jane Springett); (2) "Beyond Process and Outcome Evaluation:…
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Case Studies, Community Programs, Comprehensive School Health Education
Weissberg, Roger P., Ed.; Gullotta, Thomas P., Ed.; Hampton, Robert L., Ed.; Ryan, Bruce A., Ed.; Adams, Gerald R., Ed. – 1997
Young people are facing greater risks to their current and future health and social development, as shown by involvement of younger and younger children in risk-taking behaviors. This volume emphasizes developmentally and contextually appropriate prevention service delivery models and identifies state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies to…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Heck, W. H., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Children spend more time in school than anywhere else with the exception of home. This bulletin provides information to help support healthy and productive school environments for our nation's school children. It contains contributions from American Medical Journals, compiled from the year July, 1914 through July 1915. The following contents are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Child Health, Public Health, Health Promotion
