This manual is written to help day care directors, physicians, and others concerned with the health of children in day care to plan and carry out a group of services that will meet the health needs of children and their parents. It is divided into three parts. Part One is primarily concerned with Planners and Project Directors, and includes…

A study of nursing homes in Maine was conducted by student researchers during the summer, 1970, under Maine's Regional Medical Program (MRMP). The survey, focusing on staffing patterns and general needs in nursing homes in Maine, was conducted in order to determine ways in which MRMP might assist the nursing homes and the Maine Department of…

Originally presented as a paper at a 1974 Conference on Psychiatric Problems of Childhood, the pamphlet presents a discussion of the psychosocial aspects of adjustment and management of leukemia in children and youth. The increasing length of remissions in acute lymphocytic leukemia is thought to require physicians to consider nonmedical needs of…

The welfare of the elderly seems better served in England than here in the United States. Not only is that society more committed to helping the elderly, but its health care and social service systems also intermesh, giving the elderly easier access to a variety of services. (Author)

The original theory in the 1920s on the mode of action of Laetrile is described along with the research that followed in light of this theory. Legal and socioeconomic implications are examined, and the role of health education in combating this problem is explored. (Author/DS)

The author's research has shown that juvenile and adult diabetics, because of the pressures of dealing with their illness over time and because of the ways they are treated by others, develop certain traits and characteristics in common. (Author/PHR)

Describes scientific events: computed tomography (CT) scanner and its costs, existence of Upsilon particle in its lowest excited state, animal psychology to determine their capabilities of symbolic communication, findings of Viking mission about Mars and its two moons, and finally gives credit to first discoverer of penicillin. (GA)

Sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission, the workshop concentrated on ways and means of delivering health services from prenatal care to adolescence with an accent on preventative medicine. (KR)

Findings indicated that the elderly were quite reluctant to seek or accept help. Assistance or services perceived as earned or available to all elderly were the most acceptable, while those that required a public declaration of poverty were unacceptable. (Author/AM)

The problem of acute pulmonary embolism is employed to illustrate that medical decision analysis is possible despite some of the difficulties encountered in previous application. The usefulness of computerized decision models is discussed. (LBH)

Routine otolaryngological and audiological assessment of 224 students at a school for the deaf was carried out at the beginning of the school year and diagnosis of SOM (serious otititis media, fluid in the middle ear) was made. (Author/CL)

Eighteen hyperkinetic boys (ages 5-12) who had a history of successful drug treatment with methylphenidate were compared with a similar group of normal controls on a series of objective measures of activity and attentional problems. (Author/DLS)

Evidence of biasing in judgments made by physicians was examined via individual interviews and written questionnaires from 38 university surgeons. Each surgeon estimated six quantities: his own number of major procedures during the past year, that of his specialty, and that of the entire service, as well as similar estimates for in-hospital…

The American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on School Health recommends specific steps for medical emergencies in school and lists seven regulations governing the administration of medication in school. Arthur Retlaw and Associates, Inc., Suite 2080, 1603 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201. (CL)

The central principle of education education advocated by Flexner was mastery of the scientific method and its application to all dimensions of medicine. The biomedical model has been responsible for curricular designs that have understressed the application of the scientific method to clinical data and the more person-oriented, psychosocial…