In a study to learn whether or not poor nutrition, as indicated by low hemoglobin levels, affects intelligence and behavior, 113 Head Start children in Missoula, Montana took part. Group testing with the Lorge Thorndike Intelligence Test and individual testing with the Wechsler and Primary Scale of Intelligence or Wechsler Intelligence Scale for…

This report concerns parents who contact a mental health agency to obtain help for their children and do not cooperate with agency procedures. Some suggestions are made regarding measures for identifying cooperative and uncooperative parents. These suggestions were based on data collected while cooperation of mothers was being solicited during…

This report deals with parents who either drop out or continue to cooperate with procedures for identification of problem children. Some suggestions are made regarding measures for identifying dropouts and continuers in mental health agencies. These suggestions are based on data collected over two years of time while families were being recruited…

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 book is based on findings of a research project that dealt specifically with issues in public health work and indirectly with schools of public health, their role in mental health training, and their relevance to professional activities as perceived by those professional public health workers who participated in the survey. Underpinning the…

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…

The P.E.P. Report 1969-1973 focuses on the various findings and activities of the Program Evaluation Project. This chapter of the report discusses the basic goal attainment scaling procedures. Goal attainment scaling is a methodology for developing personalized, multivariable, scaled descriptions which can be used for either therapy…

This paper presents an evaluation model for a partial hospitalization program. The evaluation instrument, the Functional Baseline System (FBS), is presented with its use in assessing program effectiveness and efficiency. (Author)

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)