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…

Five agencies of the Public Health Service (PHS) joined with PHS Hispanic employees and other Hispanic health specialists to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Week by critically examining health issues of particular relevance to Hispanics. The first day the forum sought to define, from an Hispanic perspective, issues relating to health statistics,…

The Uniform Reporting Program of the American College Health Association generalizes on the problems of health service management and then identifies specific measures and programs to relieve those problems. (MM)

A study to explore the frequency with which U.S. schools of nursing have made an organizational response to the mandate to link nursing education and practice and to describe the organizational responses identified is described. An organizational response was defined as the sponsoring of a clinical project. (Author/MLW)

Effectiveness of clinical pharmacy services is discussed through an analysis of the literature, an analysis of the funding of grant applications by the National Center for Health Services Research, and a review of the research component of doctoral programs in pharmacy. (MSE)

The successes and problems of the polyclinic (so named to indicate that many subspecialties of internal medicine and related services are represented) approach are discussed. The polyclinic is described as a means of improving the quality of care and the teaching of ambulatory care in clinics of university teaching hospitals. (Editor/LBH)

As the major consumers of health care at the university level, students should become involved in the entire process of providing such care, including the formulation of programs and procedures, choice of personnel, public relations, and involvement on the national level through the American College Health Association. (MB)

The author describes a peer counseling service for sex-related concerns at a City University of New York affiliated college, describing background material, training and program concerns, various resistances to the program, results of the service, and an evaluation of the goals. (MB)

Describes the establishment of a nontraditional community health clinic for students in a baccalaureate program of nursing and the evaluation of the implementation of the experience. The learning needs of the students and the clinical practice needs of the faculty were met, and medical services were provided for a group with identified health…