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West, Alan N.; Lee, Richard E.; Shambaugh-Miller, Michael D.; Bair, Byron D.; Mueller, Keith J.; Lilly, Ryan S.; Kaboli, Peter J.; Hawthorne, Kara – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Purpose: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) devised an algorithm to classify veterans as Urban, Rural, or Highly Rural residents. To understand the policy implications of the VHA scheme, we compared its categories to 3 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and 4 Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) geographical categories. Method: Using…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Health Needs, Travel, Veterans
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Brown, M.; MacArthur, J.; McKechanie, A.; Mack, S.; Hayes, M.; Fletcher, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
Background: There have been significant concerns about the care and treatment of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) when attending general hospitals, which have led to inquiries that highlight service and systems failures. One response has been the development of Learning Disability Liaison Nursing (LDLN) Services across the UK that aim to…
Descriptors: Nursing, Health Needs, Program Effectiveness, Stakeholders
Addonizio, Frank Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship among sources and levels of stress, coping patterns, sources and levels of social support, and psychological distress for MSW students. Stress is a common feeling experienced by people throughout life and it is important to understand the way they cope with their stressors. Most of the…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Coping, Interpersonal Relationship, Measures (Individuals)
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Compton-Griffith, Kelsi N.; Cicirello, Nancy A.; Turner, Anne – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2011
Adults with childhood-onset neuromotor disabilities face problems accessing health care services. There are often challenges finding primary care providers or specialized providers, such as physical therapists, who are knowledgeable about neuromotor disabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of physical therapists…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Patients, Physical Therapy, Access to Health Care
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Yakunina, Elena S.; Weigold, Ingrid K.; McCarthy, Alannah S. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2011
International students in higher education represent a diverse population with unique mental health needs. Foreign students commonly experience a host of adjustment issues, including acculturative stress, language difficulties, cultural misunderstandings, racial discrimination, and loss of social support. Despite their challenges, few…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Health Needs, Racial Discrimination, Individual Counseling
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Reinke, Wendy M.; Stormont, Melissa; Herman, Keith C.; Puri, Rohini; Goel, Nidhi – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
There is a significant research to practice gap in the area of mental health practices and interventions in schools. Understanding the teacher perspective can provide important information about contextual influences that can be used to bridge the research to practice gap in school-based mental health practices. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Health Services, Community Services, Health Needs, Educational Needs
Behrens, Donna – Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 2010
There are over 70,000 residents in Ward 8, the poorest area of Washington, DC and along with Ward 7, it's most geographically remote. Approximately 36% of the Ward 8 population consists of children and youth, 18 years or younger. Children in the District of Columbia are at greater risk for poorer health and life outcomes than children in other…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Health Needs, Public Health, Child Health
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Whitley, Jessica – Exceptionality Education International, 2010
There has been recent attention paid to the mental health issues experienced by many children and youth in Canada and internationally. In particular, the role of the school and educational leaders in preventing mental health difficulties and intervening in the case of mental illnesses has been highlighted. This paper presents an overview of…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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McInnes, A.; Blackwell, D. – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2010
Aims: The main aim of this article was to determine the self-reported drinking behaviours of school age children in Sunderland in the North East of England. The results presented are derived from data collected by a Health Related Behaviour Survey, which was administered by the Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) of the University of Exeter.…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Education, Drinking, Young Adults
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Obeng, Cecilia – International Journal of Special Education, 2010
This study examines the difficulties encountered by parents caring for pre-adolescent children who have severe multiple health problems. Working within the frameworks of narrative psychotherapy (Spence, 1982; Viederman & Perry, 1980; Vitz, 1992; Benjamin, 1998), the researcher examined parents' discourses and identified the strategies they…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Coping, Home Schooling, Preadolescents
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DeRigne, LeaAnne – Health & Social Work, 2010
Parents of children with long-term emotional or behavioral conditions often struggle to access and afford mental health services for their children. This article examines the parent-reported reasons for unmet mental health needs in children using the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, specifically investigating whether…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Needs, Mental Health Programs, Public Health
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Tadema, Annemarie C.; Vlaskamp, Carla – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Raising children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities is considered to be extremely difficult for parents, but figures on the content and amount of time needed for the caring task of parents is lacking. Data on what the caring task actually means (in terms of amount of time and type of task) is needed to be able to understand the…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Parent Child Relationship, Measures (Individuals), Child Rearing
Bechberger, Alison M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Children and adolescents transitioning from partial hospitalization programs-to-schools have both mental health and educational needs. As the leading mental health experts in schools, school psychologists are uniquely suited to address the needs of these students. However, their role in this transition process has yet to be explored. This study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mental Health, School Psychologists, Educational Needs
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Kajner, Tania; Fletcher, Fay; Makokis, Pat – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
In this article we introduce a "head and heart" approach to community-engaged scholarship. Through the literatures of Aboriginal scholarship and engaged scholarship we reflect on a community-university research and program development project undertaken in response to health and education concerns of Aboriginal people in Canada. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
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Dong, XinQi; Chang, E-Shien; Wong, Esther; Simon, Melissa – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose of the Study: Recent demographic growth of the U.S. Chinese aging population calls for comprehensive understanding of their unique health needs. The objective of this study is to examine the perceptions, social determinants of depressive symptoms as well as their impact on health and well-being in a community-dwelling U.S. Chinese aging…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Education, Public Health, Participatory Research
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