Provides suggestions and guidelines for hospital personnel who become responsible for the care of hospitalized children who are mentally retarded. (RMH)

There has been little comment in the hospice literature about the special problems of the elderly. Promotes the continued refinement of hospice concepts and practices in relation to both disease and age. (Author/CMG)

A vast information gap exists between medical experts and the general public who are expected to perform as responsible health consumers. Considers the responsibility of health educators and the goals of a health-care system to develop a nation of individuals who understand the functions of their bodies. (Author/RK)

Describes a health fair conducted by the University of Texas at Austin and sponsored by the Health Information and Education Office at the Student Health Center. Its goal was to identify student health concerns and to respond programmatically. (Author/RK)

Suggests a framework for the classroom teacher or individual school to develop an individualized health education curriculum. (Author/RK)

Compared small rural hospitals with long-term care units to those without units. Found both hospital and community differences. Hospitals with such units were smaller and differed in length of stay, personnel, and expenses. Their counties were smaller in population and less urban, but did not have proportionally more elderly or different…

To improve health, health behaviors, and service provision in ethnic minority populations and communities, increasing the number of minority clinicians, researchers, and involvement of minority individuals in all aspects of health care delivery is essential. (Author)

Used secondary data sources to examine relative importance of geographic mobility as factor affecting use of Veterans Administration (VA) health services by older veterans. Found that variation in state VA health service admission rates was better explained primarily by characteristics of resident nonmobile veteran population and characteristics…

Discusses factors that have helped to shape pension system policy goals and strategies of reform in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, and Ukraine. The factors are political support, capital formation of public and private savings, high tax rates, and social assistance. (JOW)

Results are reported from a study designed to analyze Texas Southern Baptist ministers' perceptions of their ministerial counseling competencies and churchgoer health counseling needs. The major concern was to identify areas of needed competency which would better enable the ministers to offer effective health counsel. (IAH)

Surveyed 80 Latina mothers to obtain data on reasons for emergency room visit, usual sources of care, child's health, and mother's physical and psychosocial health. Results revealed clear pattern of delayed care for acute problems in children, high number of reported barriers to pediatric care, and high mental distress reported by mothers.…

Women in menopause require reassurance and reliable information. Based on concerns expressed in letters (N=7,000), women in premenopause want to know what to expect, in perimenopause they want to know whether their experiences are normal, and in postmenopause they need help in making sensible decisions about the use of hormone therapy. (Author/EMK)

The Invitational Conference on the Future of School Psychology held at Indiana University in Fall 2002 included a number of paper presentations and group discussions. Toward the end of the conference, four participants were asked to present their reactions, reflecting input from a practitioner, a graduate student in school psychology, a faculty…

This article is intended to help counselors increase their knowledge and social action for single adults who are homeless. Findings from a period-prevalence study of 71 single adults in a homeless shelter over 2 years reveal demographics, mental health needs, and sociopolitical issues of this population. Implications including social justice…

A close review of prison violence makes it obvious that a disproportionate amount of such violence is related to the mental health problems of prisoners, and that, in the U.S. at least, this appears to have become increasingly the case. One reason for the trend is that prison administrators have been routinely relegating disturbed disruptive…