Comprehensive wellness programs, offered in hospitals, universities, and large and small businesses, generally involve a health assessment followed by intervention. This article describes assessment tools and procedures recommended for health enhancement programs. (MT)

This report summarizes the impact of federal programs on individual counselors, including suggestions on advocating to improve the programs' recognition of professional mental health counselors. These are all separate programs, formulated under their own laws, regulations, and agencies.

Presents a model for a proposed allied health system which incorporates three dimensions: (1) education and training, (2) a social health dyad, and (3) service delivery. (MU)

Article focuses on health manpower programs and the education health workers need in order to function effectively and flexibly. (RK)

This discussion on reasons for the lack of a clear-cut and timely health curriculum in a number of educational settings today stresses the need for planning by faculty familiar with predetermined health goals, methods, aids and evaluation techniques. (JC)

The results of this study indicate that the establishment of a breakfast program in the secondary school serving the middle or high income district is a feasible solution to some of the adolescent nutrition problems

Describes the nutritional needs of individuals in New Mexico, and the efforts of the Nutrition Improvement Program (NIP) of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine at Albuquerque to remove hunger and malnutrition. (DM)

Prevention is the pnly hope for controlling dental diseases. The school setting provides great potential for securing dental health practices which will result in better dental health for the children of today, and the adults of tomorrow. Presented at Joint Session of American School Health Association and American Public Health Association,…

This article concerns the drug abuse related definitions of the words education" and prevention" as they have come to be used today. The writer infers that the changing uses of these words reflects an increasingly more enlightened approach to ameliorating the problem of drug abuse. (Author)

This article reviews New York State's experience with its employee alcoholism program. Methods of training, referral, and success rates are outlined. (Author)

This neighborhood medical care center serves 45,000 low income residents of the South Bronx with the help of area residents hired as health advocates to bridge communications gaps. (BH)

This is a summary of a statement by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society.

A screening program for scoliosis, or curvature of the spine, is now required in public schools in 13 states. The history of the Massachusetts program suggests ideas for starting a program in school systems. Screening kits are included. (MLF)