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Zinn, Lorraine; Long, Patrick – Parks and Recreation, 1983
This article reports on the scope of activities and the effectiveness of a Colorado program that trained community park and recreation personnel to carry out local cardiac wellness services. Participants were trained to provide rehabilitation and fitness activities for those recovering from heart attacks or surgery and for other high-risk persons.…
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Community Recreation Programs, Health Activities, Heart Disorders

Gabriel, Hugh Paul; Gluck, Regina – Pediatrics, 1973
Descriptors: Autism, Drug Therapy, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research

Garfield, Sol L., Ed. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Contains 18 articles discussing the uses of behavioral medicine in such areas as obesity, smoking, hypertension, and headache. Reviews include discussions of behavioral medicine and insomnia, chronic pain, asthma, peripheral vascular disease, and coronary-prone behavior. Newly emerging topics include gastrointestinal disorders, arthritis,…
Descriptors: Asthma, Behavior Modification, Heart Disorders, Hypertension

Crow, Thomas A.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1982
A health assessment battery was developed to screen elementary school children in Clovis (California) for factors that might lead to heart disease. Students' height, blood pressure, flexibility, weight, and body fatness (by skin-fold tests) were measured. Plans call for future development of longitudinal student profiles. (Authors/PP)
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Elementary Education, Health Education, Heart Disorders
Creswell, William H., Jr. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1982
The roles of the school, health education programs, and health education research in decreasing the risk of cardiovascular and heart disease are discussed. (CJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cardiovascular System, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
Curtis, Joseph – Parks and Recreation, 1980
Fitness is defined as both freedom from disease and as a state of physical and emotional well being. In 1977, the City of New Rochelle launched City Fit, its own approach to fitness. City Fit was developed to take fitness programs and demonstrations to the general population. (JN)
Descriptors: Community Recreation Programs, Disease Control, Disease Incidence, Exercise
Bellardini, Harry; And Others – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1980
A model cardiovascular disease prevention program for young children is described. Components include physical examinations, health education (anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system), nutrition instruction, first aid techniques, role modeling, and environmental engineering. (JN)
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Curriculum Development, Disease Control, Elementary Education

Myers-Vando, Rosemary; And Others – American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1979
It was found, among other things, that Ss with cardiac disease responded at lower levels of development on attainment of conservation tasks than did normal controls, and that cardiac Ss appeared to feel somewhat more vulnerable to illness in general, especially when projecting to adult health status. (DLS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Congenital Impairments, Conservation (Concept)

Pollock, Michael L. – Journal of School Health, 1979
School health and physical education programs are encouraged to increase scheduled time and incorporate regular endurance and physical fitness activities into other programs to reduce the risk factors of coronary heart disease. (JMF)
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Exercise, Exercise (Physiology), Guidelines

Trovato, Frank; Lauris, Gloria – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Used Canadian mortality census data from 1959 through 1981 to examine relationship between marital status transitions of men and women and mortality from neoplasms and cardiovascular diseases. Found lower death rate among marrieds. Found men had greater mortality risk reduction from state of marriage than women. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Cancer, Disease Incidence, Divorce, Females

Jones, Thomas W.; Dunne, Michele T. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
CHARGE association is described as a diagnostic label for a group of congenital malformations, including coloboma, heart defects, atresia choanae, retarded postnatal growth/central nervous system defects, genital hypoplasia, and ear deformities. Etiology and characteristics of the CHARGE association are discussed, along with implications for…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments, Ears, Elementary Secondary Education

Parker, Robert B. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1992
This paper summarizes a lecture given to pharmacy students that emphasizes the pathophysiologic mechanisms causing congestive heart failure and the effects of drugs on these mechanisms. The approach shows the importance of drug therapy in this disorder and how this knowledge can improve patient care. An appendix provides a case study. (GLR)
Descriptors: Disease Control, Drug Therapy, Drug Use, Graduate Study

Lyon, Harold C.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
The computer-based PlanAlyzer program was designed to teach clinical diagnosis to medical students, taking into account several characteristics common to the clinical problem solver: limited capacity for short-term memory; use of heuristic strategies; sequential information seeking; and problem conceptualization. Six years of development and…
Descriptors: Anemia, Cardiovascular System, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Instruction

Schooler, Caroline; And Others – Communication Research, 1993
Examines the process of media supplementation in the Stanford Five-City Multifactor Risk Reduction Project, a long-term trial of communitywide cardiovascular disease risk reduction. Indicates that accessible awareness media disseminated early in the education campaign promoted use of information-rich depth media later. Suggests that information…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Behavior Change, Health Education, Heart Disorders

Putzke, John D.; Williams, Mark A.; Millsaps, Cheryl L.; McCarty, Harry J.; Azrin, Richard L.; LaMarche, Judith A.; Boll, Thomas J.; Bourge, Robert C.; Kirklin, James K.; McGiffin, David C. – Assessment, 1997
The emotional cognitive relationship was examined in 136 heart transplant candidates undergoing psychosocial and cognitive assessment as part of evaluation for transplantation. Results show increased emotional distress was reliably associated with decreased cognitive functioning in patients who scored as nondefensive on the Minnesota Multiphasic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Defense Mechanisms, Emotional Problems, Emotional Response