Instruction in a basic core program of theories, concepts, ideas, principles, techniques, skills, and related material common to health students will provide a basis for specialization and horizontal movement. (AG)

Health occupations education has been recognized as a unique career field in vocational education. Distinctive and definitive youth leadership programs in terms of Health Career Clubs are needed to support this occupational area. (Author)

Health career clubs can increase public knowledge and understanding of health matters, improve the image and status of health workers, and attract qualified recruits to health occupations educational programs. The article traces the development of the health career club concept in New Jersey. (Author/MW)

The authors report on an experimental program in which workers and professionals in the health field are put on film, and students are given self-rating instruments to compare themselves with the models portrayed. The authors believe this "mediating step" has great potential in the career counseling of minority students. (Author)

The author discusses four basic assumptions about how people view the health care field and how these assumptions fit the emergence of a new global vision of health care which emphasizes psychic and mystical dimensions: an Aquarian vision replacing the superindustrial dream. (SH)