Provides an overview of the National Health Interview Survey and describes its potential in health promotion and disease prevention. Reports findings on smoking, alcohol consumption, and weight gain between 1983 and 1985. (RB)

Describes an adaptive-health program created by officials at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo for inmates who suffer physical or psychological disabilities. Discusses program goals, admission requirements, learning activities, techniques for motivating participants, evaluation methods, and staffing. (JOW)

The Texas State Employee Health Fitness and Education Act of 1983 enables state agencies and educational institutions to finance employee health and fitness programs. This legislation is discussed and an example of the state-supported program is given. (MT)

Examines some of the problems facing black women mental health administrators and proposes some approaches to them. (MCF)

Nineteen occupational nurses employed by federal government agencies were surveyed to determine the extent of health promotion programs in the public sector. Results are discussed. (DF)

Identifies the criteria for legally safe programs. Lists ways to assess the status of one's own program relative to those criteria and discusses strategies to improve the organization's performance. (Author/BH)

Three articles suggest that the roots of health promotion in business and industry extend back into the early twentieth century: (1) "Health Programs of Business Concerns" (Schirmer); (2) "Teach Health, Not Disease" (Bauer); and (3) "A Leader in Health Education: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company" (Means). (CB)

The current thrust to improve health care should be secondary; the main objective should be disease prevention--this is the best solution to the crisis in health care. (JA)

This is a selection from testimony of three instructors of the student health aide program at the University of Nebraska at the Regional Hearing in St. Lous. (JA)

AAHPER's role in a new approach to treatment of the injured. (Editors)

This article proposes student involvement in the health curriculum, where petitions and projects for VD treatment, birth control clinics, and other activities might illicit community support. (JA)

This article is an abstract from Digest of Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970's, the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children (MG)