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Heath, Walter D.; Spetz, Sally H. – 1980
This curriculum resource guide, one of seven developed by the State of Illinois to present information on new and emerging curricula existing in the nation, can be used as a basis for local educators to determine the resources needed to offer industrial hygiene technician curricula and to initiate curriculum development at the local level.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Allied Health Occupations Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Associate Degrees
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Jensen, Susan, Ed.; Lucich, Mardi, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2003
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Poisoning
Weissberg, Roger P.; Kuster, Carol Bartels; Gullotta, Thomas P. – 1997
This opening chapter provides an overview of the book, "Healthy Children 2010: Establishing Preventive Services." The article describes the purpose of the work, which is to provide strategies to establish and successfully implement effective prevention services in key socializing settings that powerfully affect the growth an development…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Reynolds, Gail – 1996
This practicum promoted community, school, and agency collaborative relationships to increase the access and affordability of comprehensive, culturally acceptable health care services and health promotion activities. The target population for these services and activities were high-risk, minority adolescents in grades 6 through 8 in two elementary…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, At Risk Persons
Washington Research Project, Cambridge, MA. Children's Defense Fund. – 1977
This assessment of Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program for children, based on a 2-year survey of national data and a study of EPSDT programs in five states (Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina), documents inadequate health resources for low-income children and their families. The…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1980
This working guide outlines the structure and content of training for the primary health worker (PHW) on the basis of the most common health problems of communities in developing countries. Part 1 is intended for use by the PHW as a learning text and reference in his work. It covers thirty-four problems considered to be most common which are…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adult Vocational Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives
CSR, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1978
A statistical profile of Appalachia's young children, from birth to 9 years, was compiled from federal and state data sources. The profile provides information important in making immediate and long range plans for improving the status of Appalachian children and their families. An examination of family living conditions suggests that Appalachian…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Attendance, Child Care
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Slesinger, Doris P. – 1979
A survey of Wisconsin's migrant workers was conducted to obtain demographic information, to determine unmet health care needs, and to make recommendations for migrant health services based on those needs. A stratified random sample of 408 workers was selected, representing about 10% of the migrant workers in Wisconsin in the 1978 season; 262 of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Alcoholism, Demography, Employment Statistics
Carman, Priscilla S.; Van Horn, Barbara; Grumm, Margaret – 1997
This package consists of a facilitator's guide and three booklets that were developed to provide basic preventive health information for adults caring for young children and presents a story line with characters who become more self-confident in coping with children's health issues as they build their knowledge about preventive health. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Check Lists, Childrens Literature
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Imperato, Pascal James – Optometric Education, 1996
Clinical optometric education is in flux. It must meet the challenges of advances in bioscience, newer diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, a changing health care environment, and interdisciplinary learning for problem solving; engender social responsibility; promote good provider-patient relations; stress primary care; and emphasize prevention.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience
Sharbaugh, Carolyn S., Ed. – 1991
The proceedings reported in this document provide an overview of the trends, needs, and issues in maternal and child nutrition services and present recommendations and action strategies to improve such services. An executive summary presents a total of 28 recommendations and associated strategies which address general areas, women's nutrition for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Allied Health Personnel, Children, Cost Effectiveness
Public Health Foundation, Washington, DC. – 2001
This guide was developed to assist states in addressing the national workforce development objectives for the health professions and for employees of public health agencies in order to achieve the National Healthy People 2010 workforce objectives. The guide is organized in four sections. The opening section is a "how to" resource for…
Descriptors: Adults, Competence, Futures (of Society), Government Role
Weissberg, Roger P., Ed.; Gullotta, Thomas P., Ed.; Hampton, Robert L., Ed.; Ryan, Bruce A., Ed.; Adams, Gerald R., Ed. – 1997
Young people are facing greater risks to their current and future health and social development, as shown by involvement of younger and younger children in risk-taking behaviors. This volume emphasizes developmentally and contextually appropriate prevention service delivery models and identifies state-of-the-art, empirically based strategies to…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Career-Technical and Adult Education. – 2002
This curriculum for a medical assistant program is designed for students interested in caring for the sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled under the direction of the family, physicians, and credentialed nurses. The curriculum is divided into 12 units: orientation to medical assisting; principles of medical ethics; risk management; infection…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy, Behavioral Objectives, Biomedical Equipment
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1978
Each of the 13 Appalachian states has described its overall program for children as well as some particularly innovative projects funded with assistance from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Reports are presented alphabetically by state with introductory comments from the state's governor prefacing each report. The programs for children,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development Centers, Children, Community Involvement
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