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sal ryman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background and purpose: Trans people of color experience health inequities related to their multiple marginalized identities. While historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) provide supportive learning environments for Black students, it is unclear if these protections extend to LGBTQ+ students. As trans youth experience barriers to…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Student Experience, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity
deRosset, Leslie; Mullenix, Amy; Zhang, Lei – American Journal of Health Education, 2009
Background: Consumption of folic acid prior to conception can prevent up to 70% of neural tube defect (NTD)-affected pregnancies. In 1992, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) issued a recommendation that all women of childbearing age capable of becoming pregnant consume 400 [mu]g of folic acid daily to reduce their risk for a NTD-affected…
Descriptors: Health Services, Speech Communication, Health Education, Females
Coogan, Mercy Hardie – Appalachia, 1980
The article describes North Carolina's precedent setting Office of Rural Health Services, its background and design, and its significant role in the development of primary health care clinics such as that in Balsom Grove which is staffed by a family nurse practitioner and enjoying wide community support. (SB)
Descriptors: Clinics, Community Health Services, Community Involvement, Delivery Systems
Christenson, James A.; Hamilton, Vance E. – 1974
North Carolinians' perceptions of the seriousness of the health care problem and their willingness to allocate additional tax money for health and medical care were examined. The analysis consisted of: (1) What is the health manpower facilities situation in different parts of North Carolina? (2) Does the people's perception of the situation's…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Facility Planning, Health Facilities, Health Personnel
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Johnson, M. Polly; Asay, Marilyn – Journal of School Health, 1993
A 1991 survey of 135 school districts and 6 specialty schools in North Carolina obtained data on the performance of specific health-related procedures in the school setting. Results indicated a patchwork approach to meeting students' special health care needs, with school personnel, parents, and health professionals all coordinating and performing…
Descriptors: Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Needs, Health Personnel
Dorn, Wesley N.; And Others – 1974
Concern about the adequacy of existing optometry schools to meet the needs and demands for optometric education in the South prompted a study, to result in a proposal for expansion of education in the field. The results showed that there is a shortage of optometrists in each of the 14 states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Contracts, Educational Assessment, Educational Demand