This article focuses on issues affecting the development of bilingual/bicultural health education programs for children of migrant farmworkers faced by the Colorado Migrant and Rural Coalition, including program issues and development, educational strategies and program evaluation techniques. (MB)

Professional opportunities in health education are plentiful within the Department of Defense Dependent School System. (MB)

A cooperative effort of the Michigan State University, the Michigan 4-H Youth Program, the Michigan Arthritis Foundation, and private business has developed a "health awareness team" of concerned youth, who learn about specific health problems, develop presentation skills, and implement methods for delivering this knowledge to the general public.…

GAS (Goal Attainment Sealing) is an administrative technique used to determine program success through defining and measuring program goals. (MB)

The Segal Interaction Analysis Scale (SIAS)--a categorization of verbal behaviors--is described and its uses indicated for promoting effective and productive group discussions. (MB)

This article presents a comprehensive approach to teaching and incorporating health education knowledge and skills in a primary care practitioner program. (MB)

Trends are promoting the placement of professional health education disciplines under completely autonomous departments, separate curriculums, financing, and administrative leadership, thus promoting greater professional pride, better opportunities to advance as a distinct professional field, and more freedom in curricular expansion. (MB)

This article describes a health education class in which the students actively engage in improving their own health by physical activity and good nutrition. They are graded on the success of the program they undertake by clear proof of better physical condition. (JD)

This article is a detailed description of the establishment of a competency based health education program in a college. (JD)

This short bibliography is an introduction to readings on affective, humanistic, or confluent education. (JD)

This article urges health educators to become more active and knowledgable in the field of politics so they may deal effectively with government officials whose actions may affect their profession. (JD)

A system of health promotion is proposed based on wellness, rather than illness, in which the object is to move from lesser to greater stages of wellness instead of seeking only to minimize the impact of disease. (MJB)

A participative health care program is described in which sixth-grade students and teachers, a school nurse, and a team from the community health center jointly determined program content and direction in order to motivate students to receive physical examinations. (MJB)

Historically, primary prevention (affecting communities, environments, and the interaction of the two) has been proven to be a far superior promoter of public health than has secondary prevention (affecting the individual). (MJB)

Preventive treatment is a health model based on the concept that relationships exist between health and social and interpersonal environment, and that using this knowledge (with an understanding of disease etiology and psychophysiological functioning) precursors to illness may be treated even before the stage of actual illness symptoms arises.…