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Elliott, Alison, Ed. – Early Childhood Australia, 2006
"Every Child" is Australia's premier early childhood publication, aimed at anyone involved in the care and education of children from birth to eight years--in particular child care professionals, teachers, child care students and the parents of young children. Published quarterly, it contains informative and entertaining articles on such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Young Children, School Uniforms
Simoens, Steven; Hurst, Jeremy – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
The delivery of an appropriate quantity and quality of health care in an efficient way requires, among other things, matching the supply with the demand for the services of physicians, over time. Such matching has led to very different levels of physicians per million population across OECD countries--because of variations, among other things,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Role Models, Retirement, Medical Schools
Grace, Cathy; Shores, Elizabeth F.; Zaslow, Martha; Brown, Brett; Aufseeser, Dena – Zero to Three, 2006
The National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives (Rural Early Childhood), a research program of the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute, and Child Trends analyzed data from two nationally representative samples of young children being followed in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study by the National Center for…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, African American Children, Young Children, Rural Areas
National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, Washington, DC. – 1988
A child born in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Singapore, or any of 12 other industrialized nations has a better chance of surviving his or her first year than does a child born in the United States. This is because too many babies are born too small, too many are born too soon, and too many mothers never get decent care…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth Weight, Community Programs, Employed Parents
National Migrant Resource Program, Inc., Austin, TX. – 1993
The 1993 recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on migrant health emphasize that all available federal and state public service programs be mobilized to also serve farmworkers, and that coordination of efforts among federal agencies and departments take place. The following recommendations offer approaches to secure…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Laborers, Family Programs
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. – 1984
In order to direct its curriculum units at critical health issues facing the migrant population, Project HAPPIER (Health Awareness Patterns Preventing Illness and Encouraging Responsibility) conducted two surveys focusing on the health status of migrants and their needs for further health information. The present survey, with data from 109 migrant…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Disease Control
Palmer, John L. – 1988
After progress towards achieving major income security goals during the 1960s and 1970s, economic slowdown and public reaction against "the welfare state" have curtailed direct intervention by the federal government for these purposes. Absolute poverty and welfare dependency have increased in the 1980s, especially among the young. Major…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Age Differences, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
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Schur, Claudia L.; And Others – Medical Care, 1987
Examines the following issues pertaining to the health care of different Hispanic subpopulations: (1) utilization of the health services; (2) insurance coverage; (3) mean annual expenses, by source of payment; and (4) health status. Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans have different health care practices. Policy implications are discussed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Cross Cultural Studies, Cubans, Cultural Differences
Yen, Irene H.; Frank, John W. – 2002
This document contains two papers on connections between work and health and policy options for improving the health of working families. "Foreword" (James A. Auerbach) places the two papers in the context of recent research on the connections between work, family, and health. Chapter 1's overview addresses the changing nature of work,…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Care, Employment Practices
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Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS), Rockville, MD. Office of Rural Health Policy. – 1993
Rural Health Outreach is a federal program of demonstration grants designed to encourage organizations to cooperate in delivering health care services to rural Americans. Thirteen programs utilizing innovative collaborations between state agencies, schools, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, volunteers, and the private sector are described a year…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Agency Cooperation, Allied Health Occupations Education, Child Health
Warner-Smith, Penny; Lee, Christina – Youth Studies Australia, 2001
An Australian study of 40,000 women found that the age at which young women have children is related to broader patterns of social inequality and to the disadvantagement of young rural women. Of particular concern is the increasing polarization between better-educated young women who defer motherhood and less-educated women who have children at a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Early Parenthood, Educational Attainment
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Tetuan, Theresa M.; McGlasson, Dawn; Meyer, Ileen – Journal of School Nursing, 2005
Children from low-income families are more likely to have dental disease and less likely to have regular dental care. Children's dental-related illnesses are responsible for more than 880,000 lost school days each year. The lack of reliable state-level data often makes monitoring the oral health of children a challenge. By conducting oral health…
Descriptors: Dental Evaluation, School Nurses, Dental Health, Child Health
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Drummond, Jane; McDonald, Linda; MacKenzie-Keating, Sandra; Fleming, Darcy – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2004
This longitudinal study inventoried the types of services accessed by a sample of Alberta families of children with or at-risk for disabilities. We explored the role of severity of disability, parental stress, and family income on services accessed. With few exceptions, services were accessed more frequently as the children's lives progressed but…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Family Income, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Black, Alastair – Child Care in Practice, 2004
This paper will discuss the recent establishment of the Police Rehabilitation and Retraining Trust's Child and Adolescent Therapy Service. This service was set up in response to an expressed need within the police family to provide evidenced-based psychological therapies for child and adolescent psychopathology caused either directly by…
Descriptors: Health Services, Trust (Psychology), Eye Movements, Family Life
Juszczak, Linda; Schlitt, John; Moore, Aisha – National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, 2007
The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care conducted the 2004-05 Census, the tenth count of school-based health centers (SBHCs) since 1986, to: (1) provide a better understanding of the role of SBHCs in meeting the needs of underserved children and adolescents; (2) collect up-to-date data on demographics, staffing services, operations,…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Health Personnel, Program Descriptions, Patients
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