Descriptor
Source
Appalachia | 2 |
Author
Fowler, Clifford F. | 1 |
Newman, Anne | 1 |
Publication Type
Historical Materials | 3 |
Reports - Descriptive | 3 |
Journal Articles | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Australia | 1 |
West Virginia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Newman, Anne – Appalachia, 1985
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)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Health Facilities, Health Programs, Health Services
Appalachia, 1985
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…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Health Facilities, Health Programs, Health Services
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged