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Streiner, David L.; Miller, Harold R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
A table is provided and described for prorating Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales when the entire Form R has not been completed. Good concordance of profile types was found for 300 and 350 completed questions. Interpretations based on 200 items may be suspect. (Author)
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Patients, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
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Langwell, Kathryn M. – Journal of Human Resources, 1982
Updates and reexamines Kehrer's 1973 survey of women and men physicians and factors affecting their income differential. It also compares economic indicators of demand for office-based services for men and women physicians to determine whether there is evidence of discrimination by potential patients against women physicians. (CT)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Physician Patient Relationship, Physicians, Productivity
Taube, Carl A., Ed.; Barrett, Sally A., Ed. – 1985
This document contains statistics on mental illness and organized mental health service delivery systems. Data sources cited include the National Institute of Mental Health, state mental health agencies, universities in the Epidemiological Catchment Area program, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the National Association of State…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Expenditures, Financial Support, Mental Disorders
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Cordes, David W.; Doherty, Neville J. G. – Journal of Dental Education, 1991
A study examined the economic relationship between growth in dentistry and supply/demand factors. Output, or real per capita dental expenditures, is seen as a function of consumer income, dental insurance, and dentist supply. Analysis indicates a significant relationship between dental sector growth and economic market factors, including growth in…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Demography, Dentistry, Dentists
Campbell, Joel T.; And Others – 1982
A program for improving and expanding dental education concerning treatment of the handicapped was evaluated and compared to dental education programs that were not funded to address the needs of the handicapped. Eleven dental schools received funding during 1975-1978 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the special training. Various kinds…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Clinical Experience, Dental Schools, Dentists
Rhoads, Deborah L.; And Others – 1980
Recent advances in the study of life stress and social support suggest a new approach to the drug abuse client recidivism problem which encompasses the need for naturalistic, interactional studies. A longitudinal study was conducted with 49 ex-clients of a heroin detoxification program to test the hypothesis that experiencing life stress in the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Longitudinal Studies
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Ness, Roberta; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1989
Analysis of results from the National Resident Matching Program from 1980, 1983, and 1987 show students seeking categorical surgery residencies were less likely to be matched with programs in high-density Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome areas. Implications for medical education are examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Career Choice, Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1980
The first part of this report consolidates the most current data on health care trends and presents analytical discussions on four interrelated themes: health status and determinants; utilization of health resources; health care resources; and health care expenditures. Detailed tables present statistics showing comparisons over time for such…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Disease Control, Disease Incidence, Futures (of Society)
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Margellos-Anast, Helen; Hedding, Teri; Perlman, Toby; Miller, Linda; Rodgers, Raymond; Kivland, Lisa; DeGutis, Dorothea; Giloth, Barbara; Whitman, Steven – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
There is limited information on how communication barriers impact on the health of deaf individuals. The present article describes the development of a standardized interview tool to collect health-related information from deaf adults via face-to-face interviews in American Sign Language (ASL). Questions were selected largely from existing…
Descriptors: Surveys, Deafness, Adults, Interviews
Wong, John C., Comp. – 1976
The need for health personnel in California and recommended targets for expansion of health sciences programs are presented in this report prepared for the California PostsecondarV Education Commission. The report focuses on the role of physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, and health sciences education.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees