Ninety-nine caregivers who utilized a respite service reported that respite care contributed to improved physical and mental health, better relationships, and increased confidence in their ability to continue in the caregiving role, while not affecting patients' physical or mental functioning. Reported likelihood of institutionalization increased…

The secondary curriculum provides the student a transitional period between childhood and adulthood. Physical fitness objectives at this level should enhance dynamic health through physical activity for all individuals rather than for elite performers only. Suggestions are offered to help physical educators accomplish fitness goals. (DF)

This article explores the importance of physical fitness in the United States Army. The development of expanded fitness assessment and programs is related to health and the prevention of coronary heart disease. Improved physical training programs, improved nutrition, and fundamental research are necessary for maintaining a highly fit and healthy…

The roles and responsiblilites of the classroom teacher in addressing the health needs of the chronically impaired student are explored in this article. The health curriculum can be used to complement the efforts of parents and health-care providers in informing, supplementing, and reinforcing disabled students' knowledge, attitudes, and skills.…

The current international debate over patient rights to essential drugs versus intellectual property rights is inescapable. Across fields such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, and biotechnology, southern hemisphere countries appear to be finding it increasingly difficult to afford and benefit from technologies and ideas produced by big…

In July 2002, the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center began a 3-month planning process that brought together a range of stakeholders who looked for ways to address the states nursing shortage. The process was called NS4, for the Nursing Shortage Strategy Sessions, and this report…

The quality of life endured by the rural poor is significantly inferior to that of the urban poor. (DM)

Attempts to articulate the distinction and describe the process of meeting health needs in the occupational therapy department, the institution as a whole, and the community environment. (Author)

Discusses the changes that a comprehensive program of national health insurance will instigate in health occupations education. (HS)

The need for physicians in minority group communities demands that medical schools actively recruit and educate minority group students. (HS)

Discusses some of the problems associated with pediculosis and scabies in school children. (AN)

On the basis of the findings it was concluded that faculty members need to develop a more accurate awareness of students' perceptions of health problems; there is a common core of health understandings that exist between boys and girls; health education needs to focus on the health problems of students. (Author/BY)

Describes the ways in which biological family, foster family, and social service agency successfully cooperated to provide a kidney transplant for a seriously ill adolescent boy. (RH)

Motivational factors affecting self-responsibility for health are analyzed and the relationship and importance of ability and effort as causal factors in health outcomes are examined. (JMF)