This practicum was performed to establish a model whereby a health planning organization, a hospital association, and a university can work together to meet the needs of each organization and the community. This model establishes a vehicle for learning experiences for physicians, trustees, and administrators in selected hospitals to assist them in…

Publications are organized under the following topics: (1) Division of Nursing Program, (2) Nurse Training Act of 1964, (3) Nursing (general interest), (4) Nursing Manpower, (5) Nursing Services in Hospitals, (6) Public Health Nursing, (7) Nursing Education, (8) Nursing Research and Research Training, and (9) Nurse Training Manuals. Single copies…

This publication, a revision of the Women's Bureau publication issued in April 1967, lists several Federal agencies which provide funding for day care projects. These agencies are the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor, the Small…

This first attempt to list child advocacy programs reflects the great variety and richness of advocacy efforts throughout the nation on behalf of children and youth. The listing includes strictly defined advocacy programs--both direct service, and planning and coordinating programs, as well as other services offered by agencies without defined…

A formal course on human ecology in the Himalayas is described that had a profound impact in U.S. students in terms of career goals, orientation toward the problems of poverty in the U.S., and a changed appreciation of the need for preventive measures and a community approach. (Author/LBH)

This article outlines aspects of maltreatment of children by parents or other adults, the ways of identifying symptoms of neglect or abuse, and the school's responsibility in observing and reporting such cases. (JD)

Asserts that AIDS could undermine decades of progress toward improved health and sustained economic development in third world countries. Discusses the spread of AIDS, its multiplier effect, its impact on women and children, and international responses to the crisis. (TW)

This literature review contrasts those studies that emphasize changes in knowledge or behavior to prevent childhood injuries with studies that report actual reductions in injuries. The most successful programs are those based on social learning principles and those that combine education with legislative change or modifications in regulations. (VM)

Consists of two articles on the topics of (1) sexually transmitted diseases and (2) acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Yarber discusses how these topics should be taught to young people, with emphasis on health education as opposed to morality. Newschwander states the facts related to AIDS, including risks of enrolling infected students.…

Describes the community care practicum, an integral part of the RN Flexible Option Track at the University of Texas-Houston, which is designed for registered nurses returning to school part time for the bachelor's degree. The goal is to help nurses develop a new definition of nursing practice--professional practice. (CH)

Reviews the history of Federal health policies affecting children. Focuses particularly on Title V of the Social Security Act and identifies the forces leading to its enactment, grouped into four closely related themes: responsibility of government, resource development, economic security, and special measures for protection. Briefly discusses…

The report aims to describe chronic drug users, emerging drugs, new routes of administration, varying use patterns, changing demand for treatment, drug-related criminal activity, drug markets, and shifts in supply and distribution patterns. Pulse Check regularly addresses four drugs of serious concern: heroin, crack cocaine/powder cocaine,…

Over recent years, there has been an explosion in the collection of state and local level child and youth indicator data by federal statistical agencies and in the dissemination of those data through agency Web sites. This paper reviews these resources and provides information needed to access the data. Data sources are presented in five topical…

The attitudes of faculty members toward international students were studied through comparative case studies of four academic departments at three professional schools of a Midwestern university. The focus was on graduate students because most international students at a 4-year institution study at the graduate level. In all 54 faculty members in…

The proportion of adolescents in the United States who are obese has nearly tripled over the last two decades. At the same time, schools, often citing financial pressures, have given students greater access to "junk" foods and soda pop, using proceeds from these sales to fund school programs. We examine whether schools under financial pressure are…