A short fictional work for limited English speakers presents a young family's experience in learning about the value of health insurance and the importance of having a physician when medical care is needed. Information is related regarding insurance acquired through one's place of employment and the availability of medical assistance, through…

A booklet on health care for limited English speakers provides information on choosing the right doctor, buying medicine, paying the bill, and the individual's role in maintaining his or her health. Cartoons, questions and puzzles concerning the message in cartoons and narrative passages, checklists about an individual's personal habits related to…

The potential of the teaching aspect of homemaker service, to prevent breakdown and to strengthen individual and family life, presents a challenge to the initiative, creativity, and commitment of homemaker-home health aide and allied services. The guide provides a distillation of practical experiences in the day-to-day delivery of the teaching…

This book examines comprehensively all the major health topics covered in an introductory health course and may be used in courses with a science orientation as well as in those oriented toward behavioral and social issues. The book is designed so that each chapter is a complete, independent unit. Relevant physiological facts are presented in the…

A study was undertaken to identify and describe some of the obstacles, especially sociolinguistic, that stand between Hispanic communities in rural Nelson County, Virginia and appropriate health care, so the barriers can be minimized through provision of culturally sensitive outreach services and health-literacy programming. The target population…

A curriculum for preservice maternal health and public health professionals on children with special health care needs (disabilities and chronic illnesses) and their families is presented. Principles underlying the curriculum are considered, along with guidelines for developing partnerships with families for field placements. The eight core…

Because it is based on the premise that learning is a lifelong process and that citizen involvement is essential to neighborhood problem solving, community education is particularly attuned to the current needs of cities and can be a major vehicle for cities attempting to provide convenient, comprehensive health services in an efficient,…

A Spanish version of a manual on workshops for training nutrition and health field educators to approach communities more sensitively emphasizes techniques for involving community members in efforts to achieve better health and nutrition. Experiential workshop materials and techniques have been field-tested in several countries, including…

This publication summarizes the evolution of the basic ideas and philosophies of a community development organization called Servol in Trinidad and recounts how over nine years these ideas coalesced into a unified approach. The document describes how the earliest projects--a welding institute, a clinic, a nursery school, and recreational…

Proceedings of a 1984 workshop on the roles of U.S. colleges in community health care are presented. The objective was to identify common aspects of the experiences of a sample of U.S. colleges that might be relevant to providing health service programs that are in accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative of Health for All by the…

The study reported here describes the development and testing of a curriculum model to extend the role of public health nurses into community nurse practitioners (CNP). The content is presented in six chapters. The first chapter overviews the conceptual framework for the CNP role and then describes the three-course sequence comprising the CNP…

Focusing on community service programs for the cerebral palsied, organizational patterns considered are program implementation, a state advisory and evaluation board, a program committee, continuing staff education, staff training at state schools for the retarded, training sub-professional volunteers, state legislation, and financial support.…

A survey was conducted to determine how nurse educators in the South are addressing the mandate to enhance registered nurses' ability to meet the challenges of cultural diversity in health care delivery. A 20-item questionnaire was sent to deans/directors of nursing education at 192 institutions for distribution to 10 nurse educators at each…

Pregnant women at high risk for adverse health outcomes can benefit from the services of community health workers. Maternity Care Coalition identifies at risk women and provides links to health care and social services through the MOMobile Program. The purpose of this study was to explore (a) the relationship formed between community health…

The report presents case studies of 7 community action projects which were undertaken by New York communities with populations under 10,000 and which show how local leaders can improve the quality of life in their communities. The report describes the background, initiation, expansion, implementation, consequences, and highlights of the projects,…