Describes career path of Franketta Guinn, who founded her own home health care business. Claims equally important to the financial reward is the opportunity to provide minority members with jobs. Guinn cites family values, a strong personal belief system, and ability to draw from diverse educational, job-related, and personal experiences as keys…

A study of the status of physical education, military training, and hygiene in 182 American colleges and universities is presented in this bulletin. The list of public and private institutions chosen for this investigation is intended to be representative of the different types of colleges and universities in the United States. Information was…

Traces the medical history of Native Americans since European contact. Provides background for this issue's articles concerning Native Americans and acquired immune deficiency syndrome, diabetes, substance abuse, disabilities, health problems of infants and the elderly, urban health care, and the influence of world view on health. Contains 50…

Provides overview of historical events in health care, developments in the interdisciplinary field of behavioral medicine, and some sample roles for the mental health counselor in behavioral medicine. (Author)

Summarizes the 20-year history of the Appalachian Regional Commission's innovative, flexible, $550M model health care delivery system. Cites achievements in establishing primary care clinics; tackling black lung disease; and expanding health manpower, health education, maternal and child health care, and rehabilitation centers. (NEC)

Traces Southern West Virginia Regional Health Council's decade of delivering/linking cradle-to-grave health services for 500,000 rural residents. Describes microwave communications radio network; clinics; services in family planning, genetic counseling, prenatal care, maternal/child care, nutrition, heart/respiratory disease screening, renal…

This book presents an overview of the health, education, and care services for young children in Australia in the past 100 years. The book explores how overseas developments, changing values, economic forces, and local conditions shaped and continue to shape the services provided for young children. Chapters in part 1 cover the late 1800s. Chapter…

This textbook is an essay on evidence and mathematical reasoning as applied in geometry. This volume also contains: (1) A Letter to Erasmus Darwin, M. D. on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption, and Some Other Diseases Hitherto Found Incurable; and (2) Letters From Dr. Withering, of Birmingham, Dr. Ewart, of Bath, Dr. Thornton, of…

Traces the history and underlying causes of health care discrimination and deprivation for Blacks compared with other Americans. This disparity is a result of policymakers' attempt to frame the problem in nonracial terms, physicians' attitudes, and scientific myths about Black inferiority. Calls for an elimination of institutional racism in health…

Describes the beginnings of Head Start in detail. Discusses Head Start's record in providing health care for low-income children. Compares early Head Start with the program of recent years. Discusses ways in which Head Start emphasizes children's health and helps Head Start parents and family members. (BG)

The influences of the clinical pharmacy and mandatory continuing education movements and the restructuring of the health care system in the early 1970s on the development of curricula for continuing education in pharmacy are discussed. (MSE)

The information booklet details the history and development of the Yakima Nation from long before contact with the white man to the present day. It describes how the food-gathering life of the early inhabitants of Washington's Yakima Valley began to change with the arrival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805. The booklet details the influx…

Examines the evolution of health policies in the United States and their possible impact on public health. Reviews four periods of U.S. history (1776-1861, 1861-1931, 1931-1981, and 1981 to the present) with special emphasis on the significant increase in the federal role and the current attempts to reduce the federal role. (SK)

Seeks to revise the view that the establishment of a national school medical service pursuant to the 1907 Administrative Provisions Act perpetuated a hidden agenda of Robert Morant. Traces the origins of the bill, and presents evidence disputing the claim that Morant can be credited with the bill. Includes political controversies generated over…

The area health education centers (AHEC) program was established in West Virginia in 1972 as a centralized consortium linking undergraduate and graduate medical and health professions training in Charleston. In 1987 the reorganized AHEC began developing rural community-based consortia that integrate rural primary care residencies with state-funded…