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Barker, William H., Ed. – 1976
This monograph is the result of a conference on the role of preventive and community medicine in primary medical care and education. The following six papers were presented at the conference: (1) Roles of Departments of Preventive Medicine; (2) Competency-Based Objectives in Preventive Medicine for the Family Physician; (3) Preventive Medicine…
Descriptors: Books, Conference Reports, Family Health, Health Education
Green, Robert L. – 1977
This book combines scholarship and personal experiences as several facets of the urban experience are investigated. Eight major chapters focus on poverty, unemployment, welfare, law enforcement, urban finance, housing, education, and health care. Each chapter examines each problem and provides recommendations for dealing with it. The chapter on…
Descriptors: Blacks, Education, Housing, Law Enforcement
Ryan, Caitlin; Futterman, Donna – 1998
This guide is a basic resource to help primary care providers offer quality care to lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth and their families. It is intended to be a minicourse, with three sections that combine background information, state-of-the-art research, practical guidelines, and reference information. After a foreword by Joan Holloway, part 1,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Bisexuality, Child Health
United Arab Republic, Cairo (Egypt). Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics. – 1979
This book gives an overview of children's needs and national plans and programs for children in Egypt for the 25 years between 1954 and 1978. Chapter I compares child populations in different regions of the world. The proportion of children under 15 years of age to total population is very high in developing countries (approximately 40%) as…
Descriptors: Children, Day Care, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Wishnietsky, Dorothy Botsch; Wishnietsky, Dan H. – 1996
An important but often overlooked member of a student's health care team is the teacher. This text covers ways to help teachers and administrators understand the special needs of students suffering from a chronic illness, how to recognize health events that may interfere with learning, and suggestions for appropriate interventions. The book opens…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Chronic Illness
Willis, David P., Ed. – 1989
This collection of essays focuses on the impact of health policy on black Americans by examining the relation between public policy and the distribution of health needs and effects. The book includes an introduction by David P. Willis and is divided into seven sections. Section I, "Who Are Black Americans?" includes the following…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blacks, Health Insurance, Health Needs
Richards, Robert K. – 1978
Predicting that continuing medical education (CME) will be mandatory for doctors within five years, this book traces CME's historical antecedents, analyzes the forces arrayed for and against it, and offers guidelines for its realistic use in a broad program of improving health care. An examination is made of: the evolution of undergraduate and…
Descriptors: Certification, Educational History, Educational Trends, Graduate Medical Education
Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Washington, DC. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. – 1994
This annual report presents data on the health status and needs of American children from infancy through adolescence. The report's first section gives general population data, providing context for sections two and three, which present data on health status and service utilization for American children. The fourth section contains state-specific…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Health
Mach, E. P.; Abel-Smith, B. – 1983
Many countries, particularly those in the developing world, are seeking to orient their health services toward a more equitable and efficient utilization of resources. A detailed analysis of the financing of health services is an important step in such an undertaking. This manual sets out a methodology for carrying out such an analysis and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations, Financial Needs
Kohn, Robert – 1983
This report discusses world-wide efforts to provide health services in centers that are outside institutions and provide ambulatory care in the patient's home. Emergency services, although a form of primary care, are dealt with only to the extent that they are part of an organization designed to provide general primary care, but not where they are…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Financial Support
Cronin, Godfrey E.; Young, William M. – 1979
This book tells the story of how one school system in a medically underserved community near Chicago conceived and implemented primary care health facilities in two of its schools to serve all the children of the school district. The key to the preventive health care plan is the use of specially trained school nurse practitioners and health aides…
Descriptors: Children, Demonstration Programs, Financial Support, Guides
George, Otto – 1979
"Eskimo Medicine Man" is a record of primitive Alaskan life in the 1930's. It records the experiences in Alaska's remote areas of Dr. Otto George, the last "traveling physician" for the Department of Interior's Indian Service, when in all the territory (an area one-fifth that of the contiguous United States) there were fewer…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Child Rearing
Hawthorne, Mary E.; Perry, J. Warren – 1974
This report focuses on the Study of Allied Health Education (SAHE) project that was established for the purpose of designing an action plan on a national scale for allied health and nursing education. The specific task of the project was the determination of the role that community and junior colleges might fulfill in increasing ambulatory care in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Books
Bowers, John Z., Ed.; Purcell, Elizabeth F., Ed. – 1978
The emphasis, scope area, and development of new medical schools at home and abroad are examined in these papers presented at the Macy Foundation Conference in October 1977. Representatives from new medical schools were present from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Hong Kong. Medical schools and agencies presenting papers include: Eastern…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Jenne, Frank H.; Greene, Walter H. – 1976
This textbook for the health educator is a revision of a text written by the late Dr. Clair E. Turner. The following topics are covered in depth: (1) nature and development of school health and health education; (2) organization and administration of school health and health education; (3) school health education; (4)school health services; (5)…
Descriptors: Books, Disease Control, Drug Education, Elementary Education
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