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Population Education in Asia and the Pacific Newsletter and Forum, 1990
Outlined are the technical briefings on the global overview of the HIV/AIDS predicament, the modes of disease transmission, the global distribution of HIV/AIDS, and the social impact of the epidemic among the countries in Asia which participated in the World Health Organization/UNESCO-sponsored AIDS consultative seminar on AIDS prevention…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Environmental Education, Epidemiology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRakowski, William; And Others – Generations, 1994
This issue on preventive health care and health promotion for older adults includes 14 articles on history and definition, development of guidelines, responsibility, implementation of programs for the elderly and how it differs from that for other populations, programs for minorities, access to health care information, and a description of a…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Download full textHawes, Hugh, Ed.; Scotchmer, Christine, Ed. – 1993
This book is designed for those who work with children and who believe that children, in schools and as family members, need to be considered partners in spreading health messages as well as benefiting from them. It contains the messages included in "Facts for Life," a handbook that presents practical, low-cost ways of protecting…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Health, Child Safety
Zoffmann, H.; And Others – 1986
The problem of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Europe and public health measures that can be taken to reduce the spread of infection are discussed. These guidelines cover: the magnitude of the problem in Europe, the virus and its mode of transmission, major clinical features of the disease, laboratory tests, possibilities of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Coordination, Data Collection, Disease Control
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1983
Addresses and team reports from an inter-regional seminar which examined aspects of primary health care in China are presented. Background information about the seminar is given along with an introduction to rural health services in China. The report considers four key issues: China's three-level health care network; involvement of the people;…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Family Health, Foreign Countries
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1977
A discussion of the health services in the schools of eight European countries is presented in this report. The care of the preschool child is also examined. The working group assigned to this task considered different methods of evaluation, including those measuring quantity and quality of services and, in addition, discussed statistical means…
Descriptors: Child Care, Data Collection, Family Involvement, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedTaylor, Carl E.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1978
A formal course on human ecology in the Himalayas is described that had a profound impact in U.S. students in terms of career goals, orientation toward the problems of poverty in the U.S., and a changed appreciation of the need for preventive measures and a community approach. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Peer reviewedSegest, Erling; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1990
Supplied free condoms and health information to youth in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) prevention effort. Evaluations by young people (N=616) and social workers (N=41) indicated that young were well informed about AIDS and its prevention but at risk in regard to spread of AIDS. (Author/PVV)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Attitude Measures, Communicable Diseases
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1988
Papers from the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention in this book include: (1) "Global AIDS: Epidemiology, Impact, Projections, Global Strategy," (Jonathan Mann); (2) "Modes of Transmission: The Basis for Prevention Strategies," (Donald Acheson); (3) "National AIDS Information Programme in…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Counseling, Disease Control, Foreign Countries
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). – 1986
This report examines the possiblities of increasing the amount of preventive work being carried out by primary care workers in European communities. Before making practical recommendations about promoting prevention, an analysis is presented of the main present day problems. These center on the environment (not only physical but also social and…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Poole, Gary D. – 1987
It was hypothesized that a person's estimates of the preventability of health problems would be related to health behaviors such that a person who engages in healthful behavior should make higher estimates of preventability. A study was conducted to investigate the relationship between causal attribution of health problems and health-related…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Foreign Countries, Health Behavior
Cochran, Brent – 1997
Adventure travel to Latin America requires careful planning, implementation, and followup to ensure safe, healthy experiences. This paper provides an overview of basic principles of prevention, assessment, and treatment of medical problems common to adventure travel in tropical areas. A brief introduction defines the vegetation and climatic…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adventure Education, Diseases, Drinking Water
Backett, E. Maurice; And Others – 1984
Primary health care has a new tool with which to improve its effectiveness, its efficiency, and its decisions about national and local priorities: the accurate measurement of the chances of occurrence of a future event of health or illness. Human and other resources should go where the need is greatest, and assessment of the risk of future…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Health Services
Peer reviewedHaynes, M. Alfred; Lee, Arthur B. – Academic Medicine, 1995
The Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) was founded to address underrepresentation of blacks in health professions and inadequate health care in the homelands. It trains most allied health professionals in the country, emphasizing community service and preventive medicine. Medunsa and American health professions schools can learn from…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Blacks, Community Health Services, Educational History
Anderson, Robert, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1990
Health promotion redirects thinking about health by: reasserting its social and political aspects; ensuring the people the power to define their own health concerns; and placing health more clearly in the context of other aims in life. This compilation of 41 articles in 8 sections attempts to document this process of redirection of thought. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services
