Children require accessible, affordable health care to support health and education outcomes. Health care access is affected by children's social determinants of health. School-based health centers (SBHC) bypass larger social structures and social determinants of health, providing accessible health care to children. New SBHC development should…

This publication of the California Governor's Advisory Committee on Child Development Programs includes four issues papers dealing with employer sponsored child care. The first paper describes three approaches to employer support of child care, lists the elements of the system planners must consider when designing appropriate responses to…

The main functions of comprehensive health care are promotion, prevention, therapy, and rehabilitation, with an overall goal of health education in its many forms. The consumer has roles and responsibilities in health care which mesh with life as a participating member of society. Consumer participation in the planning and delivery of health…

This fourth volume of the 1981 Report of the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health presents a collection of commissioned papers prepared in order to provide working groups of the panel with background information on major areas of health care and health policy toward children and pregnant women. The papers are grouped according to the…

Compares the efficacy of a school-based health program to an equivalent home-based program with 2,250 third grade students in Minnesota. Students in the school-based program had gained more knowledge at posttest; however, students in the home-based program evidenced more psychosocial and dietary behavior change. (Author/BJV)