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Burg, Mary Ann – Health & Social Work, 1994
Introduces analytic framework that classifies types of health problems that emerge among shelter residents and serves as guide to social work intervention with health problems of shelter residents. Framework covers three categories of health problems: illnesses coincident with homelessness, those exacerbated by limited health care access, and…
Descriptors: Children, Fatherless Family, Females, Health Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1991
This document, the third of three volumes in the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment's "Adolescent Health" series, contains chapters 15 through 19, which address issues in the delivery of health and related services to adolescents. Chapter 15 reviews research on the shortcomings of the mainstream primary health care system with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delivery Systems, Health Needs, Health Services

Dillon, Carolyn – Journal of American College Health, 1986
There are gay students, faculty, and staff on campus who could benefit from sensitively offered medical and mental health services. The themes presented by gay patients and clients and the effects of homophobia on staff practices and attitudes are reviewed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Health Needs, Higher Education, Homosexuality

Green, M.D., Frederick C. – Young Children, 1984
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Community Responsibility, Health Needs, Nutrition

Berkman, David J.; Lippold, R.W. – Child and Youth Services, 1982
Points out that while health problems often contribute to the problem behavior that causes juveniles to be taken into detention, institutions rarely treat these problems adequately. Summarizes common health problems among delinquent adolescents and calls for increased provision of comprehensive health services to institutionalized juveniles.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency

Booth, Dorothy E. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1989
Notes that age-related changes and maintenance of health and well-being of elderly prisoners require special management skills to assist elderly in coping with combined stressors of incarceration and increased health risks of aging. Information for training of law enforcement and jail personnel is discussed, including physical changes associated…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Health, Health Needs, Older Adults

Turner, Henrie M. – Urban League Review, 1986
High infant and maternal mortality, poverty, isolation, a shortage of health professionals, inadequate health care facilities, and difficult geographic access to care are some of the health-related problems that plague Black rural southerners. (GC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Health Facilities, Health Needs, Health Services

Reiss, John G.; And Others – Community Education Journal, 1994
The Florida National Forum on Health Care drew 75 participants who agreed that schools should be a place for continuing education and a resource for information on community needs for health care. The highest goal is developing a caring, competent generation of children. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Health Services, Continuing Education, Health Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1991
This document, the second of three volumes in the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment's "Adolescent Health" series, provides background information on aspects of adolescents' lives and examines the effectiveness of prevention and treatment interventions. Chapter 1, an introduction to this two-part document, provides a summary…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Health, Health Needs

Hessler, Helen – Children Today, 1982
Describes the ways in which biological family, foster family, and social service agency successfully cooperated to provide a kidney transplant for a seriously ill adolescent boy. (RH)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Cooperation, Foster Family
Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Office for Maternal and Child Health Services. – 1991
This booklet summarizes recent information on the current health status and service needs of America's children. The booklet is intended to present sentinel health measures in a readily accessible and readable format to illustrate what has been accomplished for children and to identify what challenges remain. The booklet's four sections cover:…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Demography, Health Needs

Clowers, Michael R.; Belcher, Sandra A. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1979
Presents suggestions for severity of disability criteria and closure criteria for severely disabled clients being served by an independent living rehabilitation center. Suggestions are founded on experience from a three-year-old project. Measurements of physical, psychosocial, and environmental factors for inclusion in the two sets of criteria are…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Health Needs, Physical Disabilities, Physical Environment
Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield. – 1986
This document contains the report of an Illinois task force formed to examine issues that make it different to grow older as a woman than as a man and to develop a set of recommendations to help meet the needs of women in Illinois. The focus is on housing, health care, and economic security of older women. It is noted that over 1,300 older women…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Females, Health, Health Needs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This report concerns the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) contracting with Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organizations (PROs) as a means of monitoring the medical necessity and quality of in-hospital care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Findings from a HCFA survey of PROs in California, Florida, and Georgia are used…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Hospitals, Medical Care Evaluation, Medical Services
VandeCreek, Leon – 1986
This paper is concerned with the problem that elderly persons do not seek or receive mental health services as frequently as their numbers or the incidence of mental health problems would indicate is appropriate. The report focuses on the identification of innovative mental health service delivery programs which have been designed to reach and to…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Health Needs, Mental Health Programs, Models