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)

A survey of two-year colleges reveals strengths and weaknesses of their health services. (JD)

This article describes the barriers to Asian Americans' ability to use health care services and analyzes the reasons for the health care system's inability to respond to their needs. Finally, it urges social work to contribute to the system's responsiveness and suggests approaches to social work intervention with and on behalf of Asian Americans.…

Traces the medical history of Native Americans since European contact. Provides background for this issue's articles concerning Native Americans and acquired immune deficiency syndrome, diabetes, substance abuse, disabilities, health problems of infants and the elderly, urban health care, and the influence of world view on health. Contains 50…

Needs assessment survey of 268 polio survivors explored incidence of postpolio syndrome and perceived need for and access to social and health care services. Large proportion of respondents reported experiencing postpolio syndrome. Most perceived that they had no access to knowledgeable physicians or social and health care services, and most were…

People with developmental disabilities sleep less and experience higher incidence of clinical sleep disorders than the general population. Exploring the neurophysiology linking sleep with daytime performance in patients with developmental disabilities is now possible using minimally sufficient sleep and sleep-sensitive behavioral assays. Although…

Background: As patterns of morbidity and mortality are changing, more people with intellectual disabilities develop cancer or other life-limiting illness. This paper reviews the literature around the need of people with intellectual disabilities for palliative care. Methods: A range of databases and the World Wide Web were searched for relevant…

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…

Argues that current reductions in public support for health care and the rise of a free market health care system will increase the death rate and life expectancy disparities that exist between Black and White Americans. (GC)

In July 2002, the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center began a 3-month planning process that brought together a range of stakeholders who looked for ways to address the states nursing shortage. The process was called NS4, for the Nursing Shortage Strategy Sessions, and this report…

Attempts to articulate the distinction and describe the process of meeting health needs in the occupational therapy department, the institution as a whole, and the community environment. (Author)

Motivational factors affecting self-responsibility for health are analyzed and the relationship and importance of ability and effort as causal factors in health outcomes are examined. (JMF)

A vast information gap exists between medical experts and the general public who are expected to perform as responsible health consumers. Considers the responsibility of health educators and the goals of a health-care system to develop a nation of individuals who understand the functions of their bodies. (Author/RK)

To improve health, health behaviors, and service provision in ethnic minority populations and communities, increasing the number of minority clinicians, researchers, and involvement of minority individuals in all aspects of health care delivery is essential. (Author)

Used secondary data sources to examine relative importance of geographic mobility as factor affecting use of Veterans Administration (VA) health services by older veterans. Found that variation in state VA health service admission rates was better explained primarily by characteristics of resident nonmobile veteran population and characteristics…