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Glaser, Daniel; Snow, Mary – 1969
The New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission undertook a survey of the state to gather information on community attitudes and knowledge of drugs and drug abuse. An extensive questionnaire (see TM 001 085) was administered to a sample of 6105 persons, representative of the state, who were 13 years old or older. The research findings and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Surveys
Governor's Citizen Advisory Committee on Drugs, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1969
A citizen's Drug Abuse Evaluation Committee was formed in Utah to evaluate past research and gather new data on basic questions concerning the drug problem. This booklet provides information based on the Committee's research, hearings, and an investigation of the current drug abuse problem in Utah. Data was also obtained from recorded testimony of…
Descriptors: Citizens Councils, Community Problems, Community Surveys, Drug Abuse
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Wilkins, Lee; Patterson, Philip – Journal of Communication, 1987
Explains that the news media commit fundamental errors of attribution in covering risk situations by (1) treating them as novelties, (2) failing to analyze the entire system, and (3) using insufficiently analytical language. (NKA)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Content Analysis, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
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Perry, Cheryl L.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1988
Compares the efficacy of a school-based health program to an equivalent home-based program with 2,250 third grade students in Minnesota. Students in the school-based program had gained more knowledge at posttest; however, students in the home-based program evidenced more psychosocial and dietary behavior change. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Children, Elementary School Students, Health Activities
Wijngaarden, Jan; Shaeffer, Sheldon – UNESCO Bangkok, 2005
An evaluation is presented on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the education sector in the Asia Pacific region. Its focus is how human rights in relation to education have been upset by the epidemic. The education sector is urged to develop more initiatives to educate about the epidemic, and to build measures that deal with both immediate and long-term…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Public Policy, Confidentiality
Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Zamani, Rahman, Ed.; Evinger, Sara, Ed.; Dailey, Lyn, Ed.; Sherman, Marsha, Ed.; Oku, Cheryl, Ed.; Kunitz, Judith, Ed. – Child Care Health Connections, 2002
This document is comprised of the six 2002 issues of a bimonthly newsletter on children's health for California's child care professionals. The newsletter provides information on current and emerging health and safety issues relevant to child care providers and links the health, safety, and child care communities. Regular features include columns…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Children
2001
This report examines the Annie E. Casey Foundation's work with children and families in Camden, New Jersey, providing a framework for assessing public and private investments, policies, and practices undertaken on behalf of Camden's families and neighborhoods. Camden is part of the Casey Foundation's Making Connections initiative, which advances…
Descriptors: Business, Child Health, Community Development, Educational Attainment
Harding, Anne S. – 2000
This book includes more than 500 entries describing advances in the treatment of disease and the understanding of human health. The emphasis is on significant advances in diseases, treatments, and health issues. Topics included are: alternative or nonwestern medicine; anesthesia and analgesia; antibiotics; cancer; cell biology and physiology;…
Descriptors: Anesthesiology, Cancer, Clinical Diagnosis, Cytology
Project WET Foundation, 2003
This 100-page manual serves as a technical reference for the "Healthy Water, Healthy People Water Quality Educators Guide" and the "Healthy Water Healthy People Testing Kits". Yielding in-depth information about ten water quality parameters, it answers questions about water quality testing using technical overviews, data interpretation guidelines,…
Descriptors: Testing, Reference Materials, Water, Water Quality
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1913, the field force of the Alaska school service consisted of 5 superintendents, 109 teachers, 11 physicians (1 of whom also filled another position), 9 nurses, and 3 hospital attendants. Seventy-seven schools were maintained, with an enrollment of 3,563, and an average attendance of 1.797. This…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Reservation American Indians, Teaching Conditions, Financial Support
Detzer, Eric – Humanist, 1983
The shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill failed because communities were not prepared to undertake this responsibility. Suggestions for more humane care are given. (IS)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Programs, Community Resources, Community Support
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College and University, 1980
Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers which relate to graduate and professional education are summarized. Names and institutions of conference participants are included. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Admission, Conferences, Enrollment Projections, Foreign Students
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Koker, Mark; Thier, Herbert D. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 1990
Described is a program which provides materials and techniques for presenting information about chemicals, toxicity, groundwater, hazardous wastes in the home, risk, and understanding parts per million, to a nontechnically trained community and workplace groups. (KR)
Descriptors: College Science, Community Education, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences
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Carcillo, Joseph A.; And Others – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1995
Describes an underserved rural community in which health care initiatives increased access to comprehensive care. Over a 3-year period, increased accessibility to maternal and child health care also increased use of preventive services, thus decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizations as well as low birth weight, risk of congenital…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Birth Weight, Child Health, Communicable Diseases
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Perrin, James; And Others – Future of Children, 1992
Identifies health risks and other factors that determine the need for health care services among children and adolescents. Recommendations are made to develop reforms through a coordinated care program rather than through competing systems of services. Models for community-based health care monitoring and coordination exist in other industrialized…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons
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