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Peer reviewedElrick, Harold – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1996
Suggests that exercise should be the first-line therapy for preventing and treating many common diseases; however, physicians need more training in how best to use exercise therapy. The paper explains the power of exercise and discusses how to motivate individuals to start safe, enjoyable, and life-saving exercise routines. (SM)
Descriptors: Adults, Cancer, Depression (Psychology), Diabetes
Moore, Evelyn K. – Child Care Information Exchange, 2000
Examines Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), including: (1) story of a victim's family; (2) risk factors; (3) known preventive measures; (4) change in traditional behaviors to ensure infants are put to sleep on their backs; and (5) the role child care providers should play to educate and ensure the safety of clients. (SD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Health, Health Education, Health Promotion
Download full textWorld 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
Gallagher-Allred, Charlette R.; Stein, Joan Z. – 1980
Nutrition is well-recognized as a necessary component of educational programs for physicians. This is to be valued in that of all factors affecting health in the United States, none is more important than nutrition. This can be argued from various perspectives, including health promotion, disease prevention, and therapeutic management. In all…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Dietetics, Disease Control, Ethnic Groups
Latanick, Maureen Rogan; Gallagher-Allred, Charlette R. – 1980
Nutrition is well-recognized as a necessary component of educational programs for physicians. This is to be valued in that of all factors affecting health in the United States, none is more important than nutrition. This can be argued from various perspectives, including health promotion, disease prevention, and therapeutic management. In all…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Dietetics, Disease Control, Health Education
Allred, John B. – 1985
Nutrition is well-recognized as a necessary component of educational programs for physicians. This is to be valued in that of all factors affecting health in the United States, none is more important than nutrition. This can be argued from various perspectives, including health promotion, disease prevention, and therapeutic management. In all…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Dietetics, Disease Control, Health Education
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
Williams, Carolyn L. – 1987
Refugee movements impose tremendous psychological and physical trauma on survivors, making refugees a high risk group for psychopathology and psychosocial adjustment problems. This paper explores the traditional impediments to developing prevention programs for refugees and describes public mental health strategies that could be used for different…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anxiety, Crisis Intervention, Depression (Psychology)
Adult Education Services, Johnstown, PA. – 1988
These adult basic education instructional materials on the prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) include a student reader and a teacher's guide. The student reader contains six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces two characters--Ricco and Francis--and focuses on the definition of AIDS, the three stages of the disease, the cause, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Basic Education, Disease Control, Disease Incidence
Montana State Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences, Helena. Health Education Bureau. – 1987
This volume consists of updated information to be inserted into a Montana AIDS Project manual on providing services to persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome/human immunodeficiency virus (AIDS/HIV), originally published in December 1985. The updates are mainly statistics and terminology, along with the addition of several new sections.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Case Records, Communicable Diseases, Dentistry
Kennedy, John D. – Sight-Saving Review, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Services, Preventive Medicine, Program Descriptions
Schlossman, Steven L.; And Others – 1977
This packet consists of eight brochures which comprise a National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) program in parent education. Designed for parents of elementary school children, the brochures can be used at PTA meetings, for parent discussion groups or by individual parents interested in specific aspects of child rearing. Each brochure discusses…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville, Cooperative Extension Service.
Designed to be used by health educators when teaching youths and their parents about the control of veneral disease (syphilis and gonorrhea), this booklet includes the following: (1) a two-page teaching plan consisting of objectives for both youths and adults along with notes on subject matter, methods (including titles of films and printed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Curriculum Guides, Disease Control
GUTHRIE, ROBERT; WHITNEY, STEWART – 1964
A FIELD TRIAL OF AN INHIBITION ASSAY METHOD FOR SCREENING FOR PHENYLKETONURIA (PKU) TESTED MORE THAN 400,000 NEWBORN INFANTS PRIOR TO DISCHARGE FROM THE HOSPTIAL. IN ALL, 39 CASES WERE FOUND, A HIGHER INCIDENCE THAN HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN EXPECTED. THE PRACTICALITY OF THE INHIBITION ASSAY METHOD WAS ALSO DEMONSTRATED. THE REPORT DETAILS THE TRIAL'S…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Research, Experimental Programs, Health Services
