The use of AIDS metaphors in AIDS articles from popular American periodicals is compared and contrasted. Articles from periodicals listed under the AIDS subject headings in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for January to March, 1983 are com . . .

In the current environment of decreasing financial resources, health education professionals need to explore new and innovative ways of delivering health information. This project presents an overall conceptual model, including design and content cons . . .

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between environmental factors and alcohol-related outcomes (or problems) in young adults, utilizing data of ten counties and two cities in California and to generate hypotheses for future stud . . .

Between 1991 and 1992, 10-19 year-olds accounted for one quarter of the more than 38,000 reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Los Angeles County. School-based sexually transmitted/human immunodeficiency virus (STD/HIV) education h . . .

Exposure to toxic substances in the workplace is a serious causal factor for acute and chronic illnesses. To reduce exposure to environmental toxins in the work-place, the state and federal governments have intervened with statutes to reduce such heal . . .

A multiphasic health screening clinic for the elderly, sponsored by the affiliated committees on aging of Los Angeles, the West District Department of Health services and the West Los Angeles department and the West Los Angeles Community college-Commu . . .

While attention has focused upon the selection and management of the patients submitting to aortocoronary artery bypass surgery, consideration of the cognitive needs of the patients has tended to be extemporaneous and dependent upon the motivation of . . .

Review of appointment re cords at the family planning clinic of the West Health. Center, Los Angeles County Health Department, showed that 47% of the appointments were not kept. To deal with this high rate of broken appointments, overbooking of patien . . .

Perhaps one of the most pervasively harmful and increasingly prevalent public health concerns facing United States citizens in modern times is untreated anxiety disorders. When treated, especially at early onset, anxiety disorders can be effectively m . . .

This paper presents a study of patient satisfaction conducted in an outpatient hematology-oncology clinic. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the existing practices of outpatient oncology care from the perspective of the consumer; that is, to ma . . .

This project documents an innovative approach towards the development of a community-organized program for single parents. Problems of single parents are stated with particular emphasis on those pertaining to poor, Black single parents of Southeast Lo . . .

The adverse health effects due to smoking have been well documented since 1964 with the advent of the first United States Surgeon General's Report. With increasing health care costs, there has been a recent interest from large employers exploring ways . . .

The purpose of this study was to test if CSUN students would purchase more fruit if the price was reduced. This study explored the role of price in fruit purchases on a multicultural college campus. Evidence suggests that college students are not cons . . .

The objective of this graduate project is to plan for evaluation of a health education program in the village Health and Sanitation Project in Thailand (VHSP). The evaluation design that was suggested in this graduate project in evaluating the effecti . . .

This paper proposed to identify the role a community hospital should assume in the provision of professional continuing education for the health professionals in the surrounding community. The model presented could also be adapted to rural or urban se . . .

Obesity is a pressing public health issue that disproportionally affects ethnicities such as s in the United States. According to current literature, a plant-based diet has many health benefits including reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and dia . . .

Parents who feel adequate about their roles as teacher to their handicapped children are more positive and successful as parent trainers, than those parents who do not feel adequate. Parents with positive attitudes concerning their abilities as child . . .

This study compares from an historical perspective those factors which led to the founding and development of two voluntary organizations offering mental health services to the same community. This information was gathered through a variety of means: . . .

The purpose of this study was to develop a diabetic teaching program for registered nurses on the adult medical and surgical divisions at UCLA Medical Center. A small scale assessment of the current diabetic teaching program was first conducted in ter . . .

Purpose of the Program The purpose of this project was to develop an educational program in coping skills for persons experiencing high levels of change in their lives. Impetus for the project was provided by the research of Dr. Thomas H. Holmes and o . . .

The purpose of this project was to conduct a follow up study on patients discharged from the Northridge. Rehabilitation Center to assess the post-hospitalization status of the patients in the physical, social, psychological and vocational areas. An at . . .

Current literature relevant to infant/child morbidity and mortality rates indicate that automobile accidents exceed all other causes of death until the age of fifteen. Also less than 10% of the children birth to fifteen years of age, are protected in . . .

This project was conducted to organize a systematic approach for developing a respiratory therapy learning laboratory. The laboratory facility is recommended in the “Essentials Of An Accredited Educational Program For The Respiratory Therapist”. These . . .

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among Ethiopian women. This is despite the fact that cervical cancer is preventable through increased awareness, early screening and vaccination. There is a lack of data on knowledge about . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop a teaching guide with the focus on hypoglycemia for use in teaching the adult patient with diabetes mellitus on insulin or oral hypoglycemics at the Martin Luther King, Jr. General Hospital (MLK). The concept . . .

Components were identified for a weight-reduction program for the obese members of a Health Maintenance Organization, by developing and implementing a needs assessment instrument. The sample was selected from obese subscribers and staff members of Kai . . .

Women are beginning to occupy more and more managerial positions which have traditionally been considered a "man's job". This study deals with the attitudes of men and women managers at the Camarillo State Hospital with a brief look at the evolution o . . .

A checklist was developed to aid hospitals in preparing for the implementation of new licensing regulations contained in Chapter 1, Division 5, Title 22 of the California Administrative Code. This checklist was designed to: 1. acquaint hospital admini . . .

Risky sexual behavior is associated with many adverse health outcomes including sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. These outcomes are elevated among adolescents and emerging adults and cost the nation billions of dollars annua . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop, design, and evaluate a health education instrument for raising the level of awareness of adolescents in the Santa Monica area of Los Angeles County regarding the availability of subsidized family planning se . . .

The health fair model focuses on health education and screening in a community setting. The purpose of the project was to plan, implement, and evaluate a high school health fair under the sponsorship of the American Red Cross-Pasadena Chapter. Review . . .

Several concerns were identified regarding the need to raise the visibility of health education services within the Southeast Health Services Region of Los Angeles County. Many of these problems could be attributed to the absence of an effective metho . . .

The health care profession is directing increasing attention to patient education as an important component of high quality health care. Along with this growing interest in health education is a need for curriculum guides to help health care professio . . .

A review of the literature revealed that 'action' appears to be the sine qua non in the prevention or solution of health problems, many of which require controls that can only be conducted on a continuing basis by the individuals at-risk themselves. T . . .

The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether blood donor recruitment activities at California State University, Northridge would increase a) student knowledge of blood need, blood services, and the blood donation process, b) positive att . . .

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and the most common cause of death from cancer among Hispanic women in the United States. Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation is the largest nonprofit breast cancer organization with over 60 affiliates . . .

The purpose of this project was to redesign an alcoholism education primary prevention program for a population of adolescents. The majority of the adolescents were referred to the Alcoholism Council of San Fernando Valley by local Probation Offices b . . .

Regardless of race or ethnicity, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). It is also considered the main cause of cancer deaths among Latina women (Susan G Komen for t . . .

The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of the repeat abortion seeker. This profile included demographic characteristics, the internal/external locus of control and self-esteem. A comparison was made between the birth control and repeat abo . . .

The Philippines as an independent nation saw great strides in all phases of progress. Advances in the economic, political, cultural, and social life of the Filipino people have been steadfastly growing from the ruins of the last World War. But deeply . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop an education model for the nursing care of aged patients which could be utilized for second year students in an associate degree nursing program. Preparation for the development of the model included a search . . .

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is one of the largest non-profit hospitals in the western side of the United States. Cedars-Sinai Cancer: Research Center for Health Equity is a department under Cedars-Sinai. Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Part . . .

Village India lags behind in the field of health and hygiene. Diseases and deaths are very frequent. Some of the causes are ignorance, lack of health consciousness, and insanitary habits closely related to a traditional way of life and improper and in . . .

Promoting the good health of the Asian and Pacific Island communities calls for the removal of specific barriers relevant to their utilizing the full range of available health services and the development of new, more appropriate health services. Here . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop and validate a premenstrual syndrome educational model for the health educator to use in a clinical or classroom setting. Three methodological phases of activity were involved in this process: Phase I. Develo . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop a cancer education program for adult patients at General Hospital, Ventura County. A patient education needs assessment questionnaire was distributed to the hospital medical and nursing staff to (1) solicit u . . .

The purpose of this study was to assess the cancer education needs of the hospital staff of medium sized community hospitals in central Los Angeles. The study concerned itself with eleven medium sized hospitals which treat 30-120 cancer patients annua . . .

When Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 2450 he set into motion an unprecedented state-level effort to deal with the problems of providing health care to rural Californians. This legislation established a California Health Service Corps and allocated . . .

A questionnaire survey inquiring into physicians attitudes, knowledge and clinical practices regarding gonorrhea and syphilis in gay males was sent to a random sample of general practitioners, family practitioners and internists belonging to the Los A . . .

Community organization and social planning work was accomplished in the initial development of a grass-roots Community Cancer Committee for the American Cancer Society. The target community was composed, in part, of impoverished: black and Mexican-Ame . . .