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Peer reviewedWallace, Helen M. – Children Today, 1975
Discusses the aspects of the nation-wide maternal and child health services available in the United Kingdom and Sweden including organization and regional planning, basic preventive and monitoring services, development and standards and guidelines for delivery, cooperation of professional and voluntary organizations and funding. Implications for a…
Descriptors: Children, Community Health Services, Foreign Countries, Health Programs
Peer reviewedCorn, Morton; And Others – Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 1975
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Chemistry, Conference Reports, Environment
Peer reviewedDahm, Douglas B.; And Others – Environmental Science and Technology, 1974
Spill control methods have been developed to control, treat and monitor spills of hazardous materials during their manufacture, transport, and storage. Spills on both land and water, and methods of treatment and control in these environments were studied. A discussion of detection and monitoring equipment and protective clothing concludes this…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Ecological Factors, Ecology, Environment
Peer reviewedTrump, Christopher G. – Environment, 1974
A more aware public will be required to achieve the national goal of clean water. Effort must be made to provide better and more rapid coverage of government action and news events. (BT)
Descriptors: Environment, Information Dissemination, Pollution, Press Opinion
Peer reviewedHaggerty, Robert J. – Pediatrics, 1975
Providing equal access to child health care in socially deprived areas can be accomplished by economically wise use of medical procedures and by formation of more organized health care programs. (CL)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedShaw, Edgar A. G. – Physics Today, 1975
Discusses the ratio of energy dissipated as sound to the mechanical output of devices. Considers noise levels, ranges vs. peaks, noise indexes, and health hazards. Indicates some problems vs. solutions in the technology of noise control. (GH)
Descriptors: Acoustics, College Science, Environmental Education, Physics
Peer reviewedBurchard, John K. – Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 1974
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Ecological Factors, Environment, Environmental Research
Peer reviewedEnvironmental Science and Technology, 1975
Redevelopment and expansion of United States coal resources are economic necessities. Environmentalists' objections to the less expensive, available United States coal, that introduces large amounts of SOx and particulates into the air, may be overcome with the options of coal cleaning, tall stacks, material recovery and stack cleaning. (BT)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Economics, Energy, Environment
Simkin, Linda; And Others – 1986
Developed as part of the Child and Adolescent Health Profile Project, this annotated bibliography is intended as a reference for professionals interested in key dimensions of children's health. Citations are grouped into the following four categories: (1) background information on child health issues, (2) child health indicators and health status…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Background, Children
Download full textKansas State Dept. of Health and Environment, Topeka. – 1986
Profiles are provided for innovative public health activities that focus on the health of children in day care. All are considered to be models worthy of replication. Profiles depict (1) child care in Arizona; (2) child day care licensing in Connecticut; (3) safeguarding children in day care in Kansas; (4) paired state and local inspection in…
Descriptors: Certification, Community Programs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1985
This paper contains testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine ways of controlling cancer. Opening statements are included from Representatives Claudine Schneider, Jim Lightfoot, and Ben Blaz. Testimonies are given by Rosemarie Lindgren, a homemaker and former cancer patient, and by Jules Cardin, a patient…
Descriptors: Cancer, Disease Control, Hearings, Medical Evaluation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1986
This report on the proposed National Childhood Vaccine Improvement Act of 1986 describes the background and need for legislation to safeguard the supply of vaccines for childhood diseases, to improve knowledge about adverse reactions, and to assist in the development of safer vaccines. This bill is a substitute amendment for a bill previously…
Descriptors: Children, Compensation (Remuneration), Federal Legislation, Immunization Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1987
The texts of three hearings on issues connected with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) are recorded in this document. The first hearing concerned the availability and cost of the drug azidothymidine (AZT) for victims of the disease and considered such questions as what a fair price for AZT is, who will pay for people currently being…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Diseases, Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. – 1989
This directory lists addresses, phone numbers, and contact persons for over 450 national organizations with a maternal and child health focus. The directory is divided into two sections. The first lists national organizations by subject area. These organizations provide a variety of services and activities, such as publication of educational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Health Materials, Information Sources
Campbell, Carolyn E. – 1982
An attempt is made to analyze the ascendancy of formula feeding of infants in terms of the conflicting ideologies of Marxism and capitalism. The decline of breastfeeding is traced, and is linked with the interrelated phenomena of free market economics and the domination of women by men in Western society. The monograph has two sections:…
Descriptors: Birth, Capitalism, History, Imperialism
