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Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1983
The Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) program is a health education curriculum for adolescents. Each THTM module frames an adolescent health task emphasizing development of self-assessment, communication, decision making, health advocacy, and self-management. This module is designed to improve students' ability to evaluate health research…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Health Education, Health Materials, Health Services
Download full textMcPheeters, Harold L. – 1989
Health care has become a leading growth sector of the economy, and a large part of that growth has its origin in the research generated by faculty in academic health centers. This paper discusses an effective program for translating academic health center research into economic development based upon observations at 12 centers. Topics included…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Health Programs, Health Services
Peer reviewedGinzberg, Eli – Academic Medicine, 1991
An autobiographical account by the army's chief logistical adviser to the surgeon general during World War II calls attention to the challenges of medical service planning and three postwar changes in medicine: demand for access to care; bigger federal biomedical research expenditures; and the rise of specialization. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Health Services, Higher Education, Medical Education
Rader, Rick, Ed. – Exceptional Parent, 2000
This document collects the 12 monthly issues of Volume 30 of "Exceptional Parent," a magazine focused on practical advice for parents of children with disabilities. Most issues include a focus topic as well as articles on other issues, columns, reviews, and letters. The issues focus on the following areas: (1) an extensive resource guide; (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Child Rearing, Disabilities
Peer reviewedKimmey, James R. – CUPA Journal, 1994
A discussion of the implications of health care reform for academic health centers (a complex of institutions which educate health professionals) looks at problems in the current system, the role of academic health centers in the current system, financial pressures, revenue sources other than patient care, impact on health research, and human…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Finance
National Institutes of Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD. High Blood Pressure Information Center. – 1979
As part of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program effort, the conference explored the implications and impact of the prevalence of hypertension in Spanish-speaking populations in California. Approximately 150 experts in health fields, representing all levels of government, public and private health care providers, consumers, and health…
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Community Health Services, Data Collection, Disease Control
