An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite more than a decade of concerted global action to address the health workforce crisis, collective efforts are falling short in scaling up the supply of health workers. The resulting health workforce…

This document contains the proceedings of a two-day meeting sponsored by the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Representatives from more than 60 national groups from the public and private sectors participated in discussions of health promotion objectives for the nation and formulated recommendations on how…

This report presents highlights of a seminar which focused on the unique health care needs of adolescents. Comments by the following panelists are summarized: Christine Winquist Nord, research associate at Child Trends Inc.; John Sargent, an adolescent psychiatrist, pediatrician and family therapist at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; and…

The booklet presents papers from a December 1982 workshop on specific problems in caring for ventilator-dependent children (children with respiratory distress due to prematurity, low birth weight or developmental immaturity). Following excerpts from the keynote address by C. Everett Koop, the U.S. Surgeon General, model programs from Pennsylvania,…

In order to lay the foundation for the development of an agenda for health services research among Hispanics for the 1980's and beyond, over 200 conference participants drawn from among Hispanic and non-Hispanic health service researchers, health providers, users of research data, health science students, consumers, and representatives of Mexico's…

These proceedings from the second conference on the Epidemiology of Aging sponsored by the National Institutes of Health indicate the direction of recent research and concern in this area. Attempts are made to formulate a definition of aging other than that of chronological age. A number of biomedical correlates of aging are addressed, including…

In observance of National Children's Day, this House of Representatives' joint hearing was concerned with children's health, education, and welfare issues. Its purpose was to discuss the first National Children's Day Report Card, which provides information about changes that need to be made in government spending and in the treatment of children…

This booklet is the report of the Working Group on Children and Family Breakdown: The Positive Role of Nurses and Midwives, which was convened by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and was attended by members of health disciplines, representatives of community groups, and journalists from the nursing and popular press. These…

This booklet contains both the proceedings of a conference on the rural elderly and the testimony submitted to a field hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Aging, which was conducted during the conference. Papers presented examine the nature of rural areas and the rural population, services available for the rural…

Presented are the proceedings of a 1975 conference on the aged mentally retarded which focused on the following needs: health and medical needs, emotional and social needs, housing needs, and financial needs. Explained is the design and use of a workbook distributed to participants prior to the conference. The delivery of services on the state and…

The State of the Science conference was held in May, 2007 as part of the ongoing series of national conferences, "Building on Family Strengths," conducted by the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health at Portland State University. The theme of this State-of-the Science conference was "Effective…

This proceedings comes from a conference whose purpose was to provide a vehicle for thoughtful discourse and analysis of such Hispanic American issues as education; access to health care; and community viability and the environment as viewed by Latino theorists, activists, and the Hispanic members of Congress. The discussions included the…

To increase political awareness and competence in the nursing profession, the papers in these proceedings identify political concerns affecting nursing and nursing education and explain how individuals and groups can become effectively involved in the political process. The proceedings contain: (1) "Update on National Nursing and Health Policy…

The ASPIRA Institute for Policy Research used a conference of prominent Latino leaders and a survey of conference participants as means to gather information on the needs of the Hispanic American community in the Northeast. This report presents summaries of conference transactions and survey results. The 2-day conference, held in August 1986, was…

This publication presents proceedings of a conference on barriers to health care experienced by women and minorities in the United States. Welcoming remarks were offered by Representative Charles B. Rangel. Representatives Patricia Schroeder (Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues), Louis Stokes (Congressional Black Caucus), and Robert Garcia…