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Altekruse, Joan; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
Ideas for integrating preventive medicine into the undergraduate medical curriculum include options for curricula in quantitative skills, clinical preventive medicine, primary care rotation, community health services, and independent continuing education. Recommendations are based on a guide assessing the effectiveness of 169 types of preventive…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Health Services, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
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Green, Lawrence W.; Kreuter, Marshall W. – Journal of Health Education, 1992
PRECEDE evolved as a teaching tool and framework for planning and evaluating health education programs. PATCH (Planned Approach to Community Health) let researchers examine certain principles underlying PRECEDE, relating them to new community research. Understanding PRECEDE's limitations led to PROCEED (policy, regulatory, and organizational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Control, Community Health Services, Disease Control
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Gray, Jean D.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1994
A study of Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) medical school primary care residency graduates (n=200) and other specialty graduates (n=371) suggests that the institution's policy of requiring first-year residencies in small community health services may cause more graduates, both primary care and specialists, to choose rural practice locations.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Community Health Services, Family Practice (Medicine), Graduate Medical Education
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Dryfoos, Joy G. – Teachers College Record, 1993
The article discusses the resurgence of school-based community health, mental health, and social services during a period of social upheaval, focusing on improving adolescent health through school-based initiatives. Three appendices describe school-based health service programs in New Jersey and Mississippi. (SM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Health Services, Health Promotion, Mental Health
Steuart, Guy W. – Health Education Quarterly, 1993
Includes "Importance of Programme Planning"; "Community Health Education"; "Health, Behavior, and Planned Change"; "Planning and Evaluation in Health Education"; "Scientist and Professional: Relations between Research and Action"; "The World Is Not Round: Innovation and the Medical…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Community Health Services, Community Organizations, Health Education
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American Journal of Health Education, 2001
Proposes solutions to youth violence which encompass action across seven priorities. Within each priority, strategic recommendations and action steps for change are included. Priorities include: support the development of healthy families; promote healthy communities; increase access to health and mental health care services; reduce access to and…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Community Health Services, Crime Prevention, Family Health
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Capitman, John; Sciegaj, Mark – Gerontologist, 1995
Develops a framework for identifying community long-term care program and policy features that support or hinder client autonomy. Offers a contextual approach for understanding individual autonomy and discusses its relevance to community long-term care. Illustrates how current financing, organization, and delivery of care provide clients with…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Health Services, Community Programs, Health Needs
Endresen, Kristin – Adults Learning, 2005
With the highest national HIV prevalence in the world, the issue of HIV/AIDS is one of the most pressing socio-political matters in South Africa. It directly affects between five and six million people. A conservative estimate suggests that 600 people die every day of illnesses related to HIV/AIDS and the number of AIDS orphans in South Africa is…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Activism, Citizenship, Foreign Countries
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Huang, Larke; Stroul, Beth; Friedman, Robert; Mrazek, Patricia; Friesen, Barbara; Pires, Sheila; Mayberg, Steve – American Psychologist, 2005
In April 2002, the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was created by executive order to study the mental health care delivery system in our nation and to make recommendations for improvements so that individuals with serious mental disorders can live, work, learn, and fully participate in their homes and communities. In its…
Descriptors: Health Services, Delivery Systems, Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
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Epstein, Michael H.; Nordness, Philip D.; Gallagher, Ken; Nelson, J. Ron; Lewis, Linda; Schrepf, Sheryl – Behavioral Disorders, 2005
In an effort to address the problem behaviors of children and youth, professionals have advocated for the implementation of three-tiered prevention programs: primary, secondary, and tertiary. The wraparound approach has been advanced as an appropriate tertiary program that can be used to address the complex behaviors and needs of students and…
Descriptors: Prevention, Mental Health, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems
Networks, 1994
This newsletter addresses managing the spread of communicable diseases in childhood settings as well as educational program concerns for children who are HIV infected. Noting that communicable diseases are a source of concern no matter how minor they might appear, the newsletter suggests that it is important for individuals who work with the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Caregivers, Child Health, Child Safety
Orr, Alberta L. – 1990
The American Indian Rehabilitation Project aimed to provide older American Indians with vision problems useful skills for carrying out daily activities as independently as possible and for preventing unnecessary dependence on others and premature and unwarranted institutionalization. The project goals were to: (1) develop a 5-day, seven-module…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), American Indians, Blindness, Community Health Services
Craig, Rebecca T. – State Legislative Report, 1988
The mental health policies of the past 20 years and the evidence of unserved populations suffering from serious mental illness constitute a public health crisis. Currently there are at least 3,000,000 people in the United States suffering from mental disorders. A fully developed continuum of care is needed to respond effectively to the diverse…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Financial Policy
Johnson, Michael K. – 1990
In 1969, the Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children made several recommendations based on the conclusions in their report entitled "Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970's." These recommendations included formation of a child advocacy system at every level of society; the development of supportive, preventive,…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Crichton, Anne, Ed.; Neuhauser, Duncan, Ed. – 1982
The role of epidemiology in health administration is considered in 11 articles, and three course descriptions and a bibliography are provided. Titles and authors include the following: "The Need for Creative Managerial Epidemiology" (Gary L. Filerman); "The Growing Role of Epidemiology in Health Administration" (Maureen M.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Health Services, Course Descriptions
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