This study guide was prepared to assist library personnel in using the VINTAGE series, which consists of five color videocassette programs and two slide/sound shows on topics relating to public library services to the aging. The guide to these programs, which were designed for use in staff development programs and to promote community involvement,…

Investigating the feasibility of a human resources campus designed to locate all Williamsburg County (a rurally disadvantaged South Carolina county) health and social service agencies in one consolidated area, project objectives were to investigate: agency characteristics; ownership, management, and financing aspects of the campus concept;…

Longitudinal changes in satisfaction with selected community services were examined in three nonmetropolitan counties in central Alabama, focusing on variation in changes across three groups (government officials, business leaders, household respondents) and on the relation of changes in satisfaction for individual services to overall community…

A collection of papers by educators and health and social services practitioners comprises this reader on human services in rural areas. Part one, "An Overview of Contextual Differences between Urban and Rural Human Service Practice," also includes a paper on how to maintain confidentiality in a rural environment. The "Services to Youth" papers…

Basic services which the Western Kansas Migrant Health Project provides migrant families include: (1) remedial schools and day care centers; (2) health education; (3) housing and sanitation; (4) nursing services; (5) medical and dental services; (6) hospital services; (7) supplemental food programs; and (8) driver education. During 1970, the…

The University Poll conducted a survey of the opinions of 740 randomly selected Twin Cities campus students toward 14 student services fees required by the University of Minnesota. Results from 624 students, 84 percent of the sample, are reported here. Key findings include: For no fee did a majority of students endorse an immediate reduction or…

New trends in campus health care delivery were discussed at a workshop in Chicago sponsored by the Society for College and University Planning on January 30-31, 1975. Consideration was given to the repercussions of strong consumer demands for broader and more accessible health services, the emergence of health maintenance organizations, and…

Policy implications of the indirect costs of academic research were studied as part of a federally-supported project called "Studies of the Impacts of Federal Health-Related Research Expenditures upon Institutions of Higher Education." Since proposals for substantial changes in federal regulations governing reimbursements for the indirect costs of…

As the second annual report (1971) on the availability of government and government assisted services to rural areas, this report presents narrative and tabular data emphasizing: (1) income and population trends in relation to objectives for balanced growth; (2) relationship of geographical distribution of Federal outlays to the patterns of…

The functional content unit on health and medical care is part of a system developed for tutor training and support for adult literacy programs. A key component of the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides (designed as training and reference aids for tutors) and Functional Content Units (intended to help…

The present study confirms that it is possible to use readily available and easily analyzed data from the Mental Health Deomgraphic Profile (MHDE) to predict the demographic characteristics of persons seeking treatment in a community mental health center (CMHC). The procedure suggested is accessible to all federally funded CMHC's and does not…

This book is concerned with the health care delivery system in the United States and the use of that system by the consumer. It is intended to help the consumer identify, understand, and utilize those components of the health care system that are considered legitimate, nonlife threatening, and productive in terms of promoting health and in…

Report No. 94-813 from the Senate Committee on Commerce submitted legislation which has the following principal purposes: (1) to expand and perfect with certain amendments, the matching program for construction of noncommercial educational radio and television broadcasting facilities; (2) to authorize to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal…

This report discusses the analysis by the State Department of Education of the statewide evaluation reports of all Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs in California for the 1973-74 school year. Students at all grade levels enrolled in ESEA Title I related programs gained more than one month's growth in reading skills for each month…

Prepaid group practice as a concept for providing health care is now over 25 years old in the nation and in New York City. It has overcome initial opposition by the medical profession and has been adopted by government as a healthy strategy under the acronym HMO or "Health Maintenance Organization". The author asserts that on two major…