Describes the nutritional needs of individuals in New Mexico, and the efforts of the Nutrition Improvement Program (NIP) of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine at Albuquerque to remove hunger and malnutrition. (DM)

It is the thesis of this paper that the amount of technical knowledge available in certain areas of clinical psychology and related fields is now sufficient to permit considerable advances to be made in the decision-making aspects of mental health services. (Author)

This article reflects the cognitive and emotional experience of the author. The focus was on securing funds needed for implementation and the vicissitudes of this endeavor in the areas of community organization and political action. (Author/EK)

Prevention is the pnly hope for controlling dental diseases. The school setting provides great potential for securing dental health practices which will result in better dental health for the children of today, and the adults of tomorrow. Presented at Joint Session of American School Health Association and American Public Health Association,…

This article concerns the drug abuse related definitions of the words education" and prevention" as they have come to be used today. The writer infers that the changing uses of these words reflects an increasingly more enlightened approach to ameliorating the problem of drug abuse. (Author)

This article reviews New York State's experience with its employee alcoholism program. Methods of training, referral, and success rates are outlined. (Author)

The success of the training program for women as computer programers at the Missouri Institute of Psychiatry entails free instruction and the promise of part-time employment upon completion. The program must be so sub-divided that minimally trained persons can make a valid productive effort. (NL)

The results of the study on developmental group counseling showed no experimental control group differences of practical significance despite substantial differences between counseling group and placebo control group students in perception of personal benefit. (Author)

This neighborhood medical care center serves 45,000 low income residents of the South Bronx with the help of area residents hired as health advocates to bridge communications gaps. (BH)

This is a summary of a statement by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society.

A screening program for scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, is now required in public schools in 13 states. The history of the Massachusetts program suggests ideas for starting a program in school systems. Screening kits are included. (MLF)

Three models of evaluation emerge: objective and independent, objective but serving one interest, and pseudo-scientific public relations. Evaluation of an interdisciplinary mental health education program and roles must all be attended to or the weak link undermines the rest. (Author/RL)