Military health care facilities make extensive use of computer-based training (CBT) for both clinical and non-clinical staff. Despite evidence identifying various factors that may impact CBT, the problem is unclear as to what factors specifically influence employee participation in computer-based training. The purpose of this mixed method case…

National survey data were used to assess whether child welfare agency ties to behavioral health care providers improved placement stability for adolescents served by both systems. Adolescents initially at home who were later removed tended to have fewer moves when child welfare and behavioral health were in the same larger agency. Joint training…

Purpose: To identify various organizational climatic factors responsible for role performances of veterinary officers in Andhra Pradesh, India. Design/methodology/approach: Study was conducted in 11 selected districts. Data were collected from 220 respondents through a pretested interview schedule and subjected to correlation and multiple…

To meet the special needs of and provide quality health care to nursing home residents, the health care workforce must be knowledgeable about the aging process. Health professionals are minimally prepared in their academic programs to care for older adults, and few programs have required rotations in geriatrics. Teaching nursing homes (TNHs) have…

Discusses a number of uses for poetry in health care management. Argues that poetry can be an artful partner not only as a therapeutic tool but also in management practice. (SR)

Compares the American health care system with those of England and Sweden; presents evidence to support view that cultural factors influence health care significantly. Health care systems in small countries with homogenous populations tend to accept cultural factors, but do so with less ease in countries with heterogenous populations and…

The computerized data file, the Area Resource File (ARF), was originally used in determining locations of nationwide Health Education Centers (AHEC). It has been more recently employed in general and comparative geographic statistical analysis of health resources in counties throughout the country. This aid contains seven general categories of…

An assessment of school health programs, policies and practices in the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools was initiated because of concerns by Native American serving providers and advocates that American Indian youth have limited access to school health services, and because there is increasing national and state momentum with respect to…

Paper delivered to the Council of Teaching Hospitals at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).

Presented before the Section on Nursing, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1, 1968.

The purpose of this study was to obtain the expert opinion of university medical center administrators throughout the United States as to (1) the missions most important to the university medical center of 1980, and (2) the administrative elements which would be necessary to carry out the missions. Two questionnaires were administered to the…

A variety of consumer issues involved in education about pregnancy and childbirth are outlined for inclusion in health education programs. They include consumer concern prior to and during pregnancy, and surrounding childbirth. (JMF)

Hospice care (health care for the terminally ill that emphasizes emotional support for the patient and family) is essential to ease emotional, psychological, and social pain, and can be a factor in addressing spiritual and physical pain. Yet to ease the pain of final illness, therapeutic communication must extend beyond words. Physical contact--in…

Present educational and administrative structures must be changed in order to improve health care in rural areas. (Author/RH)

This interlibrary loan study was done in 16 health care institutions during two weeks in November, 1967 and two weeks in March, 1968. Each interlibrary loan requester was asked to record what position he held (attending staff, resident, intern, other staff), and whether his request was related to patient care, teaching, continuing education, or…