Examines the place of associate degree programs in the education and training of environmental health professionals. Discusses components of associate degree curriculums in environmental health sciences and the potential roles of associate degree recipients. Presents recommendations to improve associate degree programs and to attract more students…

Nursing graduate students (n=79) conducted a variety of community engagement through service learning projects. Qualitative and quantitative analyses indicated that students were exposed to low-income populations and increased their knowledge of health issues and the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. (Contains 13 references.)…

Rural training sites are ideal for students to confront social, political, and economic forces underlying ill health in our society. Medical education for rural practice must provide early and sustained exposure to rural communities and rural physician role models, particularly through university-community partnerships. (Author/MSE)

Focusing on emerging models of population-level risk reduction, the authors discuss the essential ingredients for successful suicide prevention programs: comprehensiveness, fidelity, and intensity. Issues of feasibility, access, and effectiveness are discussed. The authors argue for nesting suicide prevention programs within existing public health…

Graduate schools of public health are reconsidering the way they prepare students for public health practice, working to ensure that graduates with master's of public health degrees are competent to meet the current challenges of practice. Alumni of schools of public health may be required to demonstrate competency in the domains of skills,…

In the Caring for the Community Initiative, a nursing school provides five community-based health programs for underserved populations, which serve as clinical practice and service learning sites for students. The programs provide faculty opportunities to integrate their research, teaching, and service roles. (SK)

An action research study found that newly qualified community nurses were very positive about their new roles and able to use analytic skills in practice. However, they felt inadequately prepared for work pressures and the pace of activity. (SK)

Presents an activity in which students grapple with the complex issues surrounding the use of DDT to control malaria which affects millions of people in developing nations. Considers risk/benefit analysis and the pre-cautionary principle, two techniques used when making policy decisions involving the impact of science and technology on society.…

A curriculum to prepare nurses for global public health practice contains eight modules: global burden of disease, epidemiology in developing countries, international health organizations, comparative public health, emerging infections, maternal/child health, economic development and health, and traditional/indigenous medicine. The course makes…

A community-based nursing curriculum development project had three phases: (1) faculty development using a dialogic resident expert model; (2) curricular and instructional revisions aimed at increasing responsiveness to student and community needs; and (3) evaluation through conventional outcome measures and stakeholder interviews. (SK)

This study examines the interplay of institutional environments and organizational contexts in shaping the responses of four professional schools (public health, business, social work, and engineering) to diversity-related pressures, expectations, requirements, and incentives. The role of market demand in structuring postsecondary approaches to…

The academic health center must move swiftly to develop institutionwide quality of care assurance programs that meet the review requirements of Title XI of the Social Security Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-603). (Editor/PG)

This annual report deals with certain features and activities of schools of public health in the US and Canada. From questionnaires sent to directors of public health schools, information was obtained on the administrative organization of the schools, physical plant, library facilities, finances, admissions, course offerings, field training, and…

Describes Project Nursing Outreach at the University of Massachusetts-Boston School of Nursing. Project Nursing Outreach is a community health services agency that provides clinical experience to senior baccalaureate nursing students and no-cost services to clients who cannot afford to pay. (CH)