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Download full textArkin, Elaine Bratic – 1989
This manual, designed to assist professionals in health and health-related agencies, offers guidance for planning a health communication program about cancer based on social marketing and other principles as well as the experiences of National Cancer Institute staff and other practitioners. The six chapters are arranged by sequentially ordered…
Descriptors: Cancer, Health Education, Health Programs, Health Promotion
Shotland, Jeffrey; Loonin, Deanne – 1988
Nutrition and health are underlying influences to education performance. This report is a collection and analysis of data on nutrition and the rural poor in the United States. It presents an empirical assessment of critical nutritional and social-service problems experienced by the rural poor population. The first section of the report uses data…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Federal Aid, Food, Health Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1990
The first of a series of hearings on child health issues was held in an effort to obtain a better understanding of the causes of the United States' low rank among industrial nations on indices of child health and prosperity and of models other nations use to improve children's health care, access to delivery systems, and cost containment. Contents…
Descriptors: Child Health, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Etiology
Welborn, Ruth B. – 1986
The relationship of learning style and teaching style to student academic achievement was studied with nontraditional health professional students in credit-seeking educational efforts. Participants were 256 adult students in undergraduate and graduate health professional majors of allied health education, allied health research, and health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Adult Students, Allied Health Occupations Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1986
This annotated bibliography contains 73 citations describing health education programs around the world. Countries represented include: Bangladesh, Egypt, Gambia, Gilbert Islands, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Swaziland, Thailand, Tunisia, Australia, Colombia, India, United Kingdom, Canada,…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Alcohol Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Cancer
Chinen, Merton; And Others – 1986
"Recidivism of Discharges from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility--1974 to 1978" (Zych, 1984) was a research project which examined characteristics of the recidivist as a juvenile, such as sex, commitment offense, and age at commitment. A study was undertaken to supplement that research project by examining additional variables…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Correctional Institutions, Criminals
Brandon, Thomas H.; And Others – 1985
Recent smoking treatment programs have shifted emphasis from initial cessation rates to long-term abstinence, with aversion therapy and coping response training having had the most success. A smoking cessation treatment consisting of rapid smoking and behavioral counseling was supplemented with two maintenance treatments. After completing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Change Strategies, Coping
Lassey, William R.; Lassey, Marie L. – 1986
The Geriatric Assessment Unit (GAU), which has proven successful in urban areas, may be a viable system for providing health care to the elderly in rural areas. GAUs engage in assessment, follow-up response to findings, education, and research. The assessment component includes, at minimum, physical health, functional ability in activities of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Health Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1985
A hearing was held to update information on progress toward immunizing the world's children against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles, and tuberculosis. Immunization programs are regarded as essential in the effort to break the infection-malnutrition cycle in children in developing nations. Witnesses at the hearing included…
Descriptors: Children, Communicable Diseases, Developing Nations, Disease Control
Gary, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1984
This study was undertaken to develop a comprehensive data base regarding the use of informal social support networks as avenues of help-seeking among Blacks for the solving of mental health related problems. The study population consisted of 451 noninstitutionalized Black adults from Richmond, Virginia, nearly two-thirds of whom were women. The…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Family, Blacks, Depression (Psychology)
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1984
This booklet is the report of the Working Group on Children and Family Breakdown: The Positive Role of Nurses and Midwives, which was convened by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and was attended by members of health disciplines, representatives of community groups, and journalists from the nursing and popular press. These…
Descriptors: Children, Family Problems, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
Cahill, Janet; McGurrin, Martin – 1983
Research has found a strong relationship between aggregate economic indicators and the number of individuals receiving services from mental health facilities. To examine the relationship between macroeconomics and health, the broad utilization patterns and demographic information on the aggregate number of individuals using the mental health…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Economic Change, Health Needs
Crowell, Barbara D. – 1989
This sample policy, proposed by the Brandywine School District (Delaware), addresses the issue of HIV Infection of employees and/or students. The policy was developed by an AIDS Committee appointed by the superintendent in January 1988, and comprised of members from every area in the school district community. This policy acts as district policy…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Disease Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
This report reviews Federal funds awarded to VisionQuest National, Ltd., a profit-making organization that provides treatment programs for troubled youth. VisionQuest was one of several organizations selected in the early 1980s to assist the Federal government with the influx of Cuban refugees by providing services to adolescents and young adults…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Programs, Cubans, Federal Programs
Hauff, Edvard – 1988
This paper describes past and present European efforts to address the mental health needs of refugees. It begins with a brief historical survey of mental health services for refugees after the Second World War and delineates the policy recommendations from the 1948 International Congress on Mental Health. The next section describes current…
Descriptors: Conferences, European History, Foreign Countries, International Programs
