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Download full textHealth Services and Mental Health Administration (DHEW), Rockville, MD. Maternal and Child Health Service. – 1971
This report details two screening programs aimed at determining childhood nutritional problems within a given community. Discussed in section I is a simplified screening approach which involves gathering information about the frequency of specific food stuffs and food nutrients in the community; obtaining family demographic and dietary information…
Descriptors: Food, Medical Evaluation, Nutrition, Preventive Medicine
Peer reviewedWoods, Robin; Langham, Joan – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1980
Argues for the importance of fluoridation in childhood as a preventive health measure and critically examines objections raised against its use. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Dental Health, Preventive Medicine
Peer reviewedHickey, Tom; Stilwell, Diana L. – Gerontologist, 1991
Notes that changing nature of disease risks and functional health status with aging suggests need to focus health promotion efforts in older population where they will reduce morbidity, mortality, and disability. Sees little consensus in literature regarding efficacy of various health promotion practices and appropriate target groups within older…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Older Adults, Preventive Medicine
Filerman, Gary L. – J Med Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Organization, Organizational Change, Preventive Medicine
Timmreck, Thomas C.; And Others – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1977
Suggestions on how to choose a good dentist are given in this article. (JD)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Dental Health, Dentists, Preventive Medicine
Smith, Dorothy – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
Hearing loss as a result of meningitis, now the leading nongenetic cause of deafness in infants and young children, may be reduced by the introduction of the HiB (Hemophilus influenzae type B) vaccine. It is highly effective, relatively safe, and recommended for most children over 24 months and high risk children 18-24 months old. (VW)
Descriptors: Etiology, Hearing Impairments, Infants, Preventive Medicine
Peer reviewedVogt, Thomas M. – American Journal of Public Health, 1984
A longitudinal study of 1,761 children found that children in nonsmoking households used significantly more outpatient services than did those in smoking households, a relationship largely accounted for by the use of more preventive medical services by those in nonsmoking households. (CMG)
Descriptors: Children, Medical Services, Parents, Preventive Medicine
Direct linkHarris, Katherine M.; Martin, Laurie T.; Lurie, Nicole – RAND Corporation, 2009
In 2007, Sanofi Pasteur asked RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation, to study the current climate for adolescent immunization in the United States, to recommend broad strategies for immunizing low-income adolescents (through age 18), and to identify promising "on the ground" practices consistent with the proposed strategic…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Income, Immunization Programs, Child Health
Richler, Jennifer; Luyster, Rhiannon; Risi, Susan; Hsu, Wan-Ling; Dawson, Geraldine; Bernier, Raphael; Dunn, Michelle; Hepburn, Susan; Hyman, Susan L.; McMahon, William M.; Goudie-Nice, Julie; Minshew, Nancy; Rogers, Sally; Sigman, Marian; Spence, M. Anne; Goldberg, Wendy A.; Tager-Flusbert, Helen; Volkmar, Fred R.; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
A multi-site study of 351 children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and 31 typically developing children used caregiver interviews to describe the children's early acquisition and loss of social-communication milestones. For the majority of children with ASD who had experienced a regression, pre-loss development was clearly atypical. Children…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interviews, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Children
Hunter, Harold G.; And Others – 1974
This paper reports on one of the main goals of preventive dentistry, that is, encouraging children to remove plaque at least once a day. Two self-scoring systems were combined with two disclosants for a total of four experimental systems administered to 128 children. In the count method, the child counts the number of stained teeth; in the rating…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Dentistry, Health Education, Hygiene
Salk, Jonas – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1978
The author conveys a sense of the term "health" as connoting not a passive state of freedom from disease, but an active condition of being, of growth, development, and evolution. (Author/MJB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Definitions, Fundamental Concepts, Health
Peer reviewedPetchel, Karen A.; Mello, Arthur F. – Journal of School Health, 1977
A weekly "swish and spit" program takes about ten minutes of class time, effectively prevents dental caries, and promotes an awareness and greater concern for good dental practices in the school community. (MJB)
Descriptors: Dental Health, Elementary Education, Health Education, Preventive Medicine
Campaigne, Ernest – Amer Biol Teacher, 1969
Discusses potential war time and medical uses for chemical compounds giving protection against radiation damage. Describes compounds known to protect, research aimed at discovering such compounds, and problems of toxicity. (EB)
Descriptors: Biology, Preventive Medicine, Radiation, Radiation Effects
Peer reviewedTanner, Suzanne M.; Harvey, Jack S. – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1988
Common among runners and athletes who participate in jumping sports, plantar fasciitis is an overuse injury that is potentially incapacitating, causes heel and arch pain, and usually occurs after sudden increases in running mileage, frequency, or speed. Therapy is described. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Athletes, Injuries, Podiatry, Preventive Medicine
Peer reviewedDulski, Judith – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1978
Two questionnaires used as tools in educating college students toward healthier living were evaluated and found effective. (MM)
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluation, Health Needs, Preventive Medicine
