A first aid course for the mentally retarded is described. It adapts the standard American National Red Cross Course to the specific needs of the mentally retarded by use of a multimedia approach. (JMF)

A survey of 530 South Carolina college and university students' sexual behavior patterns and contraceptive use indicates the need for comprehensive family planning programs focusing on preventing conception rather than preventing intercourse. (JMF)

Classroom activities promoting occupational health and safety are outlined to create awareness among students of the nature and magnitude of job-related hazards and illnesses and to promote student attitudes conducive to placing a high value on protecting their health and safety at work. (JMF)

Two programs providing diabetic patients and their families with information and instruction on diabetes, including self-care instruction are described. (JMF)

Two units of the School Based Health Education Project in Howard County, Indiana, have been revised. The Little Smoky unit on smoking for second graders stresses the effects of smoking on the body systems while the Counter Conscious unit examines the uses of over-the-counter substances. (JMF)

All fields of health, physical education, and recreation contribute to well being of people, and all these fields should be incorporated into a goal of educating people to be totally healthy. (JMF)

This article describes a values clarification program conducted among young male residents of a school for drug and social behavioral problems in Mexico. (JMF)

The Oregon Association for the Advancement of Health Education's steering committee fosters political action in support of health education in the state. The committee's development is outlined and suggestions for organizing similar groups are offered. (JMF)

The International Year of the Child is a UNICEF coordinated activity. Suggestions for heightening public awareness of the wide range of problems facing children are offered at the local, national, and international levels with specific activities underway in the field of health education highlighted. (JMF)

Children's attitudes and beliefs about death and dying are examined, and some recommendations are made to parents, teachers, and administrators to establish a base from which the child can operate during encounters with death and dying. (JMF)

The American Heart Association's Heartsaver Program, including instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills, has been integrated into the basic Personal Health and Safety course at the University of Arkansas. An outline of the course content is provided. (JMF)

Ideas to aid the classroom teacher include integration of emphasis on reading into health education; definitions pertinent to contemporary health education; teaching students to read food labels; identification of implications of scientific advances such as test tube reproduction; and a card game to teach food groups to middle school children.…

The hospice philosophy seeks to meet the needs of dying patients and their families. These needs include: effective control of pain; to be loved and to alleviate loneliness; to retain dignity and maintain control of as many aspects of life as possible; and to help the family be supportive and adapt to their inevitable loss. (JMF)

Washington state's experience with defeating an initiative that would have made fluoridation of water illegal is described. (JMF)

This article describes a study to determine the readability of selected patient education materials using the cloze procedure adapted from the Gestalt concept of closure. (JMF)