A study was conducted to determine whether the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is fulfilling dual public health and primary care missions of its Child Health Clinics, which provide services to 78,000 New York City children every year. Among the services provided by Child Health Clinics are health examinations for school and…

This booklet is designed to provide the citizens of Maine with general information they can use to help with the problem of youth suicide. It serves as part of the state's public education strategy to teach the citizens about suicide prevention. The booklet contains information concerning myths about suicide, the risk factors, warning signs, and…

Because increasing numbers of children receive their health care through managed care organizations, and parents often turn to health care providers for information, these organizations have a unique opportunity to affect children's development. This document comprises two publications, a full report and a brief; it discusses the role of the…

This bulletin is intended to raise awareness of the magnitude and gravity of adolescent maltreatment and to provide information on public health program and policy interventions. A review of adolescent victimization, with a focus on vulnerable youth, provides background for the development of public health measures to promote prevention and ensure…

This guide is designed to be a catalyst for social change, and to transform attitudes, policies, and services concerned with suicide prevention to reflect current knowledge. It involves a comprehensive and integrated approach to reducing the loss and suffering from suicide and suicidal behaviors in the United States. Representing the combined work…

As computer interfaces emerge as an instructional medium, instructors transitioning from the classroom continue to bear the burden of designing effective instruction. The medium of the computer interface, and the kinds of learning and interactive possibilities it affords, presumably changes the delivery of learner-centered instruction.…

Discusses the objectives and methods under consideration in the development of a national internship program for sanitarians. Also reports a summary of the responses from 50 California sanitarians in reply to a questionnaire regarding the Sanitarian Internship Program. (JR)

Institutions educating students in the health sciences face several unique problems in developing and effectively utilizing audiovisual instructional materials. Authors discuss these problems and describe Georgetown University's approach to solving them. (Author)

Describes major programs carried out by the National Bureau of Standards to solve problems relating to energy resources, technological innovation, public health protection and unit standardization. (CC)

Description of a study conducted in Madison, Wisconsin, in which building form and diversity of space arrangement, as perceived by the subjects, were reported. Judgmental and attitude responses and implications for psychological health also are discussed. (LK)

The author suggests that the best way to improve a school's medical problem is a willingness on the part of both parent and school personnel to regularly assess these problems and offer solutions for their improvement. (BY)

A roundtable discussion by physicians focuses on the rising rates of venereal disease, the recognized symptoms and treatments, the role of the physician in reporting and patient care, and the enormous need for expanded public education in the area. (CJ)

Systematic collaborative research is needed to find ways to extend community comprehensive health care more equitably to all citizens. (IR)

Medical schools can alleviate the nation's untended crisis in health care by increasing health care delivery teaching and giving more students training in patient care systems. (IR)