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Peer reviewedRussell, Nancy K. – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study assessed the usefulness of unannounced standardized patients to assess the skills of 284 physicians enrolled in a continuing medical education program in control of sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus. Significant discrepancies were found between physician-reported performance and actual performance, as found in…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVarona, Frank – Social Studies Texan, 1992
Discusses the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Criticizes contemporary condemnation of Columbus as unproductive. Acknowledges the deaths of countless Native Americans through disease and warfare. Recognizes that the pre-Columbian Americas did not comprise a paradise. Concludes that commemorating the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Criticism, Culture Conflict, Diseases
Crosby, Alfred W. – 1989
Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 and opened a period of extensive exchange between the Old and New Worlds. His greatest impact on the New World has been the one to which the least attention has been paid: his biological impact. For millions of years the biotas of the Old and New Worlds developed independently, divergently. The…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Animals, Diseases
Download full textSpar, Ruth – 1993
Noting that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is expected to become the fifth leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4, this paper provides relevant information on AIDS and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to help educators understand that they can work with children and adults who are HIV positive or who have AIDS. The…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Adults, Child Health
Puerto Rico Commonwealth Office of Children's Services and Community Development, Old San Juan. – 1994
This document provides guidelines and procedures, in Spanish and English, for Head Start teachers in taking care of children with AIDS, or children who are HIV positive, and their families. The goal of the guide is to maximize participation of infected children in the Head Start program. The guide presents activities in three main stages:…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Caregivers, Child Health, Disease Control
Dresslar, F. B.; Wood, Thomas D.; North, Charles E. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
One of the most important factors in the education of children is the establishment of their physical health, without which all learning and training must have less value for the individual and for society than they would have with it. Implicitly in the act creating the Bureau of Education and explicitly in recent acts of Congress, investigations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, State Policy
