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Balog, Joseph E. – American Journal of Health Education, 2005
Many health educators view health as a subjective, comprehensive and multidimensional construct, such as the WHO concept that defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This paper, through a philosophical analysis, demonstrates that health is not…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Health Education, Educational Philosophy, Well Being
North Dakota University System, 2006
The combination of North Dakota's lower standard of living and non-competitive salary and benefits makes it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain the best and the brightest staff and faculty. Since 1998, campuses have been internally reallocating funding to provide salary increases to staff and faculty above that provided by the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Living Standards, Educational Quality, Compensation (Remuneration)
Ravallion, Martin – 1998
A poverty line helps focus the attention of policymakers on the living conditions of the poor and may inform policy decisions about targeting development or poverty programs. Poverty lines serve two roles. One is to determine the minimum living standard before a person is not considered "poor." The other is to make interpersonal comparisons, such…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Income, Living Standards, Macroeconomics
Levine, Robert; And Others – 1991
This study translated data reflecting life satisfaction from a large national Japanese survey into English. Perceptions of life satisfaction in Japan were compared to those in the United States. Data for U.S. subjects were taken from Gallup Polls in 1979, 1989, and 1990; Japanese data were based on personal interviews taken during the National…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Economic Status, Foreign Countries
James, Robert; Patton, Robert – Education Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 1973
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Context, Economic Development
Engel, Joanne E.; Charles, Don C. – 1979
The effects of three levels of living conditions for two age groups of individuals were examined relative to sub- and total-alienation scores as measured by the Dean Alienation Scale. Subjects were 38 older adults and 42 college students. The young adults felt more isolated than the elderly, and nursing home residents felt more powerless and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Alienation, College Students
McAuley, Alastair – 1977
This paper assesses the nature and extent of poverty in the USSR in the post-Stalin period, primarily in the decade after 1958. The author describes Soviet anti-poverty policies and discusses their impact. He notes that the Soviet government's ability to influence economic welfare and income distribution lies in its control over wage and salary…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Family Income, Government (Administrative Body), Living Standards
Robbins, Lynn A. – 1975
The Federal government and private corporations involved in energy production are placing great emphasis on the strip-mining of vast coal reserves. The Navajo Nation, whose lands contain 20 billion tons of low-sulphur coal, sells vast quantities of its natural resources for use in the urban centers of Arizona and southern California. However, the…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1973
Federal programs, designed to improve the living conditions of migrant and other seasonal farmworkers in 6 agricultural areas in California, Florida, Michigan, New York, Texas, and Washington, were assessed by the General Accounting Office. In fiscal years 1966-70, the government provided about $400 million in grants and loans to assist these…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Day Care, Education, Federal Aid
Humphrey, Theodore R. – 1970
A 4-man field team from the University of Colorado, under the auspices of the National Study of American Indian Education, spent 6 weeks in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana, in the fall of 1968. The team studied the public school system of Browning, Montana, the major town on the reservation and reported on educational facilities,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Community Study, Curriculum
Coles, Robert – 1965
Living in America today are many hundreds of thousands of people whose lives are characterized by continual movement each crop season from town to town, from state to state, and from region to region. There are 3 large-scale pathways (streams) the migrants follow: (1) along the Pacific Coast, from southern California to Washington; (2) from the…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Case Studies
Alaska Governor's Commission on Cross-Cultural Education, Juneau. – 1970
The study presents findings and recommendations regarding education of Alaska natives (Eskimos, Indians, and Aleuts). The paper was prepared for the governor of Alaska by the Commission on Cross-Cultural Education of Alaska, which was designed to find ways to provide new meaning to education for Alaska's multicultural society and to provide…
Descriptors: American Indians, Boarding Schools, Community Involvement, Cross Cultural Studies
Huff, H. Pope; Salter, Leo G. – 1969
The project concentrated on providing intrastate relocation assistance to disadvantaged rural workers in Mississippi, with a flexible minimum of supportive service. Assistance consisted of counseling, providing housing, travel arrangements, job interviews, job development, financial aid, and recruiting the unemployed. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Job Development, Job Placement
Woods, Richard G.; Harkins, Arthur M. – 1971
A survey of inner-city Indian adults was undertaken by 165 students enrolled in an American Social Welfare class at the University of Minnesota. That survey resulted in 100 contacts with Indian adults in Minneapolis and the summarization of their characteristics as related to educational attainment and occupational category. In addition, attitudes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Attitudes, Education
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Cobas, Jose A. – Social Science Quarterly, 1978
Since the Bureau of Labor's cost-of-living statistics are available for only 40 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) in four regions, the author presents a method to estimate family budgets for all SMSAs. Data for the calculations are easily accessible in Census and other government publications. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Estimates, Family Income, Living Standards
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