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Dukepoo, Janis Herman; And Others – 1976
The conference was the first conference at a national level to deal solely with American Indian health needs. Representatives of 31 Indian health boards and 49 states gathered together to learn more about and discuss some of the most vital issues facing the delivery of health services to Native Americans today. In an important attempt to…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Role, Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations
National Center for Health Services Research (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1978
The conference reported on in this document provided a forum for identification, discussion, and recommendation of alternative policies and approaches to the involvement of blacks in the health decisionmaking process in the United States. Recorded and summarized are discussions which were held regarding the state of health policy in America,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators, Black Community
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Pediatrics, 1993
This special supplement presents two background papers, three working papers, and key recommendations from a conference on culture and chronic illness in childhood. The meeting had as its goal the identification of the state of knowledge on the interface among culture, chronic illness, child development, and family functioning, for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Chronic Illness, Cultural Differences
Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies, Washington, DC. – 1989
The 813 participants in the Roosevelt Center's May, 1989, regional citizen assemblies discussed trends affecting workers, employers, and families and laid the groundwork for a recommended national work and family policy. Part 1 of this report analyzes the results of a series of introductory exercises in which citizens were asked to register their…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Washington, DC. – 1992
This collection consists of the technical papers presented at a federally sponsored workshop on financing of mental health services for children and adolescents. Individually, the papers reflect the fragmentation of the field--both the fragmented service delivery system and fragmented research on services and financing. Together, the papers form a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Children, Delivery Systems
Mashaw, Jerry L., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book contains 13 papers from a workshop convened to explore the causes of work disability and the types of interventions that might enable individuals to remain at work, return to work, or enter the work force for the first time, despite having chronic health conditions or impairments. Following an overview of the papers by editors Jerry L.…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled)