The Ramathibodi Faculty of Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand, has developed a teaching and research program in community health aimed at brining the institution into close association with the health needs of the country. (Editor)

Discusses the radioactive waste management in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the USSR. Indicates that scientists and statesmen should look beyond their own lifetimes into future centuries and millennia to conduct long-range plans essential to protection of future generations. (CC)

Considers the need for Black persons as health care professionals and the roles that two year colleges and their personnel must play. (Author/RK)

In a keynote address to the New York State Federation of Workers for the Blind the author discusses ethical and political aspects of the long-term, equitable dissemination of social and health services. (MC)

A comprehensive overview and analysis of the nutrition status of young children in Third World Countries, problems in and barriers to improving the health and nutrition of these children, and suggested programs and future directions for this area of concern. (DM)

Prepared for delivery at 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Los Angeles, California, November 1, 1970, on the problems of organization of the academic health center. (IR)

If one is to work as a health worker (counselor, educator, nurse, physician) in a cross-cultural setting, it is important to know about others, about oneself, and about various health beliefs. School health services personnel should develop educational approaches that take socioeconomic and cultural differences into account. (CJ)

Compares the 1929-32 Venereal Disease Control Demonstration Project conducted among Southern Blacks with the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Asserts that while the latter involved unethical research activities, the former fell outside the realm of research ethics, because it exploited human subjects for political gain. (Author/MJL)

Problems in the community health middle management role are explored. Sources of role ambiguity (bureaucratic role discrepancy, professional role discrepancy, performance role discrepancy) are examined. The advantages of the creation of a holistic-oriented environment also are discussed. (CT)

To determine the acceptability of local school dental health education programs, the Maine Office of Dental Health surveyed and analyzed the beliefs, knowledge, and attitudes of public school superintendents and private school principals. The results of the surveys are to be used to promote adoption and implementation of dental health programs…

In a Kansas elementary school, an outbreak of scabies was discovered by the school nurse. Through cooperative planning with the local health department, the infected children were excluded from school pending medical treatment, and a screening program was set up for the entire student population. (JN)

Describes a strategy for a community development program that was to identify and connect needs and services through coordinated networks of organized citizens, businesses, agency staff, and local government. Reports that the strategy resulted in such programs as a county information service, a family life center, an interagency council, and a…

Discusses modern health education as concerned with fostering human potential. Suggests health educators are going beyond a disease-orientation to one of fostering health. Defines health education as including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor components with primary goals of achieving increased vitality and integration among physical, mental,…