Reviews a course in Food Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in which students are sequenced through a series of computer-based lessons or autotutorial slide-tape lessons, the computer also being used to route, test, and keep records. Since grades indicated mastery of the subject, the course will…

Discusses reasons for viewing physiology as an independent discipline rather than as a subtopic of both biology and medicine. (MLH)

The article discusses the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program in California, which attempts to screen all children for medical problems and provide preventive and maintenance care. (CD)

This paper emphasizes the rapid response of American medical schools to the absence of sex education in their curricula, which has led to diversity of design, strategy, and evaluation of human sexuality courses. It further points out that most such courses are inadequate. (Author)

A survey of physician-reading decisions for 120 medical periodicals along a publication penetration scale (to scan, to read, to file) showed that three-fourths of the periodicals are scanned and slightly less than half read to some extent. Specialties, type of practice, and teaching responsibilities influence reading decisions. (JT)

The author argues that the importance of primary health care, with emphasis on preventive aspects of care, requires a socioeconomic and health survey of each community and that the nurse-epidemiologist would be the most effective compiler of such surveys. (MF) Baganda in Uganda was interviewed concerning perceptions of loneliness and social…

The Veterinary Medical (VM) Libraries Group project (compilation of a basic list of veterinary medical journals to benefit existing and new veterinary medical schools) is reported. The list, presented here, will be revised as needed by a permanent committee of the VM Libraries Group. (JMD)

Presenting a review of basic information, this article presents the following: (1) building a shelter, (2) making a fire, (3) finding and keeping food, (4) safety and medicine, (5) orientation to directions, and (6) aids in traveling in the country. (RTS)

Presents a biochemistry experiment for college students that illustrates the purification of an enzyme. (HM)

Discusses the origin, development, and future of the Office of Health Information and Health Promotion (OHIHP) established in 1976. Inadequate funding has prevented the OHIHP from executing plans for educating the public in better nutrition practices. (MA)

Contains abstracts of papers on physiology and related sciences arranged in alphabetical order by first-named author. (GA)

The president of a group practice prepayment program describes the health maintenance organization (HMO), an alternative health care delivery system for employee groups. An HMO differs from indemnity insurance in providing total medical and health care for a monthly fee, instead of paying only in cases of illness or accident. (MF)

The notion that medical education is a rigidly structured system, consisting of a few, relatively fixed patterns leading to different career outcomes, was not supported in this study using data from the Association of American Medical College's Longitudinal Study. Evidence was found of stratification among structural factors that influence access…

This is a discussion of some of the reasons for the high cost of health care in the United States in government programs, hospital wages, physician's fees, excess beds, too many specialists, and high technology--and some of the proposed solutions to these problems. (BB)

Includes a general discussion of sports medicine including exercise and conditioning techniques, prevention of illness and injury, treatment of and rehabilitation after sports injury, and the future of sports medicine. (BB)