This article discusses the role that university health centers and schools of public health can play in bolstering a community's capacity to solve its own health and human service problems, reviewing specific strategies and models that institutions can implement in partnership with local communities. (MDM)

This report synthesizes a number of policy and implementation issues raised during a forum on the development of partnerships between community and migrant health centers (C/MHCs) and health professions education programs to support community-based primary care training. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction, while chapter 2 provides an overview of…

Discussion of student health and the college campus clinic distinguishes between health and health care, considers campus health centers, and addresses issues of student health, noting that students health problems often blur the boundary between mental and physical. Sidebars offer excerpts from the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior…

A discussion of the role of academic health centers in health care reform efforts looks at the following issues: balancing academic objectivity and social advocacy; managing sometimes divergent interests of centers, faculty, and society; and the challenge to develop infrastructure support for reform. Academic health centers' participation in…

Examines the relationship between communicative and organizational processes in the medical and financial screening steps of the patient intake process of an urban out-patient clinic. Case studies of conversational routines in medical intake show how these processes elicit and provide information in categories used to reconcile conflicting medical…

Discusses the development of public schools as centers for social and health services. Identifies the at-risk population and describes a variety of intervention programs. Envisions a comprehensive, centralized scheme at the city or county level to serve the needs of disadvantaged students and their families. (DM)

This report contains recommendations of a Wisconsin Task Assignment Steering Committee created to explore solutions to some significant problems facing adult chronic "revolving-detox-door" alcohol abusers (CRA's), persons with repeated admissions for detoxification services; and to examine the system that serves and funds them. This…

The importance of partnerships between metropolitan universities, local government agencies, and community organizations to address community health issues is discussed and illustrated in the collaborative activities of North Texas University and its Fort Worth health sciences center, including a community clinic and a master's program in public…

The current approach to research, teaching, clinical service, and administration at academic health centers is reviewed, and the traditional values underpinning this approach are challenged. A new form of faculty management that matches the individual faculty member's priorities and skills with the health center mission and which focuses on the…

As school health services are broadening, the role and scope of school nursing is changing. The paper describes challenges facing today's school nurses and nurses' roles in new health service delivery models, offering recommendations for improving and expanding school nursing services. Descriptions of several cases and model programs are included.…