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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1975
Focusing on America's self-knowledge about its nutritional health, this report deals with the availability of nutrition evaluation and counseling to individuals and the adequacy of the national nutrition monitoring system. Bureaucratic and political problems of applying nutritional health considerations to food policy are also examined. Nutrition…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Eating Habits, Foods Instruction, Government Role
Kim, Sookon; And Others – 1972
As the second report on a cohort of 5,083 women between 32 and 46 years of age who were first interviewed in mid-1967, contacted by mail in 1969, and reinterviewed for the first time in 1969, three topics are considered in this longitudinal study: (1) changes in labor force participation, (2) interfirm mobility, and (3) changes in job satisfaction…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Employment Experience, Employment Patterns
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Baumeister, Alfred A.; And Others – American Behavioral Scientist, 1991
Discusses child morbidity, suggesting solutions can be found at the community level. Argues the federal government's role is essential in articulating policy and providing resources. Generates a new morbidity model emphasizing poverty and social factors as crucial influences. Lists priorities for effective, preventive, intervention planning. (NL)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Birth Rate, Child Development, Child Health
Besinaiz, Carlos, Ed.; Aranda, Roberto, Ed. – 1975
The course aims to train migrant health personnel to recognize and identify adverse sanitary conditions related to the migrant farmworkers' living and working environments, and to outline approaches for the presentation and alleviation of health hazards through the referral of recognized sanitary deficiencies and code violations to responsible…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Course Content, Course Objectives, Disease Control
Whiteside, Daniel F.; And Others – 1978
The health manpower planning experiences of four countries reported here were presented in a traveling seminar held for member countries of the Pan American Health Organization. Focus was on what should be carried out in any country to coordinate the training of health workers with the operation of health services. Following the introduction, the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Delivery Systems
Navajo Health Authority, Window Rock, AZ. – 1976
The Indian Health Committee met with key staff of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Area Office to review the environmental health services provided on the Navajo Reservation and make recommendations for improvement or expansion of current programs, if needed. Recommendations were made regarding environmental health and institutional personnel,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Delivery Systems
Ugalde, Antonio, Ed.; Cardenas, Gilberto, Ed. – 1997
Eleven papers from a workshop titled "International Migration: Health and Social Policies" focus on common concerns and problems in providing social and health services to labor migrants and immigrants in the United States and the European Union. Following an introduction (Antonio Ugalde, Gilberto Cardenas), the papers are: (1)…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Females, Foreign Countries, Health Conditions
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Okagbue-Reaves, Janet – Journal of Family Social Work, 2005
As more and more children are being separated from their biological parents because of AIDS, substance abuse, mental and physical illness, incarceration, and child abuse and neglect, child welfare agencies are relying more often on kinship care as a viable option for out-of-home placements. In many cases, kinship care falls on the grandparents.…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Child Welfare, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Males
Friedel, J. N., Ed. – An Environmental Scan Update, 1992
A key component to Eastern Iowa Community College District's (EICCD) strategic planning process, called "2020 Vision: A Perfect Vision for the Future," was the publication of the report "An Environmental Scan" in 1989, which summarized major trends occurring in the external environment which may impact the community college,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Planning, Community Colleges
North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project, Durham. – 1985
A survey of office workers employed by North Carolina telephone companies was conducted to determine the extent and types of health problems experienced by office workers who use video display terminals (VDTs). Data were gathered by questionnaires mailed to 2,478 office workers, with 966 responses. Questions concerning a wide range of health…
Descriptors: Adults, Data Processing Occupations, Health Conditions, Human Factors Engineering
Read, Merrill S.; Felson, David – 1976
The problems of those children who are chronically malnourished, the cultural environment of malnutrition, and the extent to which children are temporarily or permanently handicapped in learning because of malnutrition are discussed in this booklet. It also describes hunger and its effects on child development. The topics addressed are: definition…
Descriptors: Anemia, Behavior Patterns, Child Care, Child Development
Morrison, Nolan; And Others – 1985
The size of Texas and the distribution of its population result in service delivery, economic, educational, transportation, communication, and health problems. Texas is the second largest state in the nation, is third largest in population, has a population growing at a faster rate than the national average, and is a primarily rural state--20% of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agriculture, Alcoholism, Children
Americans for Indian Opportunity, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. – 1980
Environmental health impacts of development on Indian communities, and the roles of government agencies responsible for environmental protection and individual safety are being assessed by Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) during a two-year project. Although the more than 250 Indian tribes within the U.S. have federal guarantees for…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Conservation (Environment), Cooperative Planning
California Univ., Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center. – 1979
Originally presented at an American Indian Studies Center conference in 1978, the papers in this volume comprise a review of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC). The introduction makes the observation that many AIPRC problems might have been avoided if the federal government had funded an ad hoc Indian group whose task would have…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indian Education, American Indians, Drug Abuse
Simoens, Steven; Hurst, Jeremy – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
The delivery of an appropriate quantity and quality of health care in an efficient way requires, among other things, matching the supply with the demand for the services of physicians, over time. Such matching has led to very different levels of physicians per million population across OECD countries--because of variations, among other things,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Role Models, Retirement, Medical Schools
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