Reports a national telephone survey that measured public support for seven proposals to restrict youth access to tobacco products. Nearly all respondents believed child and adolescent smoking was a serious problem. Most supported all proposed measures to restrict children's access to tobacco and to increase the cigarette excise tax. (Author/SM)

Focuses on how federal training funds have affected the directions of psychology and medicine. The significance for psychology's involvement in national health policy, particularly during this era of reform, is highlighted, as are those steps by the research, education, and practice communities within psychology, that are essential for…

Association for the Advancement of Health Education presents its 1991 Directory of Institutions Offering Specialization in Undergraduate and Graduate Professional Preparation Programs in School, Community, and Public Health Education. Listings include institution name with city and zip code, head of program and title, address, telephone number,…

Maintains that infants and toddlers, parents, and child caregivers are vulnerable to a variety of infectious diseases from infant-toddler child care centers. These diseases include infectious diarrhea; rubella; cytomeglovirus; hepatitis A, and haemophilus influenza type B. Suggests ways to prevent the spread of such diseases. (BB)

McGuire's model of persuasive communication in public communication campaigns provides a framework for examining input variables in HIV/AIDS prevention education with Hispanic populations. Source, message, channel, and receiver factors associated with HIV prevention are analyzed with regard to design and implementation of culturally appropriate…

Describes content of 50 introductory sociology textbooks in their coverage of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease. Reports that, although by 1987 HIV was covered in 26 texts, many aspects were neglected. Concludes teachers should concentrate on slighted areas including the difference between…

A study compared serum total cholesterol and blood pressure levels of participants in a voluntary national health screening with NHANES II estimates of the general U.S. population. Findings suggest the levels may not have decreased appreciably over 10 years; and continued national, state, and local behavior modification efforts are warranted. (SM)

Discusses how to decide who should know about HIV-infected students, presenting national guidelines for helping make the decision. Suggestions for actual policy implementation focus on developing a plan for decisions, determining who else needs information, and deciding what to do when parents and schools disagree on who should know. (SM)

Lists and annotates 100 items published by the U.S. government that were received by depository libraries during fiscal year 1993-1994. Subject areas represented include defense; health policy and economics; health care and disease; education; the social sciences, environment, technology, energy, and business. (KRN)

Analyzes contributions physical education makes to child and adult health. Topics discussed are current levels of U.S. children's physical activity; status of elementary physical education programs; health-related physical activity interventions; public health analysis of elementary physical education; and public health role and goal for physical…

Researchers recommend that physical educators pursue a public health goal, preparing students for a lifetime of physical activity. If the role physical educators play in improving health is better understood by public health professionals, support for quality physical education programs will increase. (SM)

Presents Healthy People 2000's school-related objectives, focusing on those that can be attained directly by schools (arranged under the eight components of a multidimensional school health program) and those that can be influenced in important ways by schools. (SM)

Describes the Massachusetts experience of developing medication-administration regulations for public and private schools and implementing those regulations within the commonwealth. The model recognizes that school nurses and school physicians are the decision makers about medications in school. The regulations demand that school districts…

Presents a model intervention program for young children with disabilities based on a public health approach that is empirically driven, with correspondence rules relating the independent to the dependent variables. The program was designed to provide a total-service intervention for infants prenatally exposed to cocaine. (Author/CR)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works with public health agencies and other organizations to address chronic disease prevention and risk reduction in older adults. Efforts in the areas of physical activity, osteoarthritis, and chronic illness self-management are described. Other activities include older adult immunization programs…