A program of home visits was developed through the Crisis Intervention Unit of the Department of Psychiatry of Toronto East General Hospital in order to provide alternative clinical counselling for psychiatric patients. Preliminary results suggest that home visits have considerable implications for the development of suicide prevention services.…

Investigates whether or not children of alcoholic parents suffer adverse emotional consequences and whether or not Alateen is beneficial to such children. Adolescents with an alcoholic parent who were not members of Alateen had significantly higher scores on the negative scales of the Profile of Mood States. (Author)

Community leaders and physicians considering locating in rural communities need a method by which they can evaluate a community's potential for supporting a physician. A survey was conducted in 1986 of 25 physicians' practices in rural Oklahoma, with data collected on the number of patient visits and practice costs. (Author/MLW)

Interviews were conducted with refugees from Poland, Rumania, Iraq, and Vietnam to assess their health care utilization and health service use barriers. The results showed good overall health. The areas of greatest need were dental health, prenatal care, and mental health. Language was a barrier to health service utilization. (VM)

To pin down the appropriate parameters for graduate nursing education, the authors say we must explore the meanings of advanced generalist and specialist. They discuss the focus, scope, and depth of the community health major, psychiatric mental health nursing, nursing care of children, maternity nursing, medical-surgical nursing, and nursing…

A course in community pharmacy management that involves community pharmacy managers in the instruction of the course found a high degree of pharmacist interest in course projects and in participation in the program. (MSE)

Describes a 40-question survey of 428 baccalaureate-educated community health nurses working in the United States and in developing countries. Results indicated that important subject areas for community health nurses to study include (1) physical assessment, (2) community needs assessment, (3) family counseling, and (4) current trends. (CH)

Describes the health care functions provided for the Black community by urban public hospitals; considers the impact of Federal retrenchment on these institutions; and examines the negative impact on Blacks, other minorities, and the poor that the sale of urban public hospitals to private, for-profit chains will have. (GC)

Offers proposed definitions of "frail elderly" and "range of institutional care", and argues that an active problem-solving, treatment-oriented approach can reduce unnecessary institutionalization and that the movement to deinstitutionalize the elderly can learn from the history of the deinstitutionalization of other groups.…

Describes the Massachusetts Home Care Corporation network, which provides alternatives to institutional long-term care. This investigation confirms that home-based support service can be targeted to selected subgroups, that targeting can be maintained, and that the recipients of these services are indeed the individuals who risk…

Studied was the impact of changes in service patterns, through regionalization of services to the mentally retarded, upon the Child Development Clinic at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. (IM)

The option of using Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) to make health services more available and accessible to those who most need them is discussed. The author concludes that a National Health Insurance program will soon emerge and HMO's will be a necessity in that program. (BT)

Although it is estimated that half of all women will experience some form of domestic abuse during their lifetimes, participant recruitment in studies to learn about such abuse is difficult. The first step for the researcher is to develop a collaborative community partnership with domestic violence services. This will provide first-hand knowledge…

Nursing's concept of community health care does not include jail populations, yet inmates' health needs and problems, often rooted in the community, can be ameliorated or prevented by imaginative nursing input. (Author)

Statistics representing attitudes of the world's governments concerning education in terms of public expenditure are compiled and presented in tabular form. Comparisions are made to expenditures in developed and developing countries for competing activities such as public health and military costs. (SM)