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Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Office for Maternal and Child Health Services. – 1991
This booklet summarizes recent information on the current health status and service needs of America's children. The booklet is intended to present sentinel health measures in a readily accessible and readable format to illustrate what has been accomplished for children and to identify what challenges remain. The booklet's four sections cover:…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Demography, Health Needs
Vital & Health Statistics, 1984
The first national estimates on a variety of health indicators for the Hispanic and non-Hispanic populations of the United States are presented in this report, which consists largely of statistical tables containing data from the National Health Interview Surveys of 1978, 1979, and 1980. The primary focus of the report, however, is on four…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cubans, Disabilities, Diseases
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Kahl, Anne; Clark, Donald E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1986
Explores the potential impact on demand for health services workers of the sweeping changes in industry structure currently underway. Demand is expected to grow in response to the increasing number of elderly people; growth prospects to 1995 for the industry's wage and salary workers are uncertain because of changes in both the financing and…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics, Health Insurance
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Vandenbos, Gary R.; And Others – American Psychologist, 1981
Describes characteristics, employment setting, and professional practices of health service-provider psychologists. Discusses their current status in psychology, the distribution of health care practitioners, patterns of specialization in service delivery, and populations being served by these practitioners. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Certification, Clinical Psychology, Doctoral Degrees, Employment
Institute of Medicine (NAS), Washington, DC. – 1983
This report addresses concerns about the quality of biomedical and behavioral research conducted in the United States and the role that federally supported research and training plays in developing it. In addition, current and projected supply of and demand for scientists in the biomedical and behavioral fields is assessed. These fields include…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Biomedicine, College Science, Doctoral Degrees
Johnson, Wanda B.; Pearson, Curtis W. D. – 1983
Re-examination of a 16-county area of southern Alabama last studied in 1968 found it still economically depressed, especially for blacks. Black unemployment remains two to three times higher and black poverty rates up to five times higher than those of whites. Blacks are generally employed in the lowest paying jobs. Both black median family income…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
New York Urban League, Inc., NY. – 1984
The social and economic status of blacks in New York City is the subject of this Urban League report, which has five major parts. Part I is an executive summary of the report. Part II provides a demographic profile of the black community. Data are presented on population size, the geographic distribution of blacks, age distribution, marital…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Community Organizations, Demography
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