This project paper outlines some of the initiatives undertaken in the field of education and prevention of HIV infection in an area of low prevalence (Northern Ireland) and attempts to adduce some of the factors critical to achieving implementation of the programme, planning for which started at the end of ...
Decisions on education for health currently take place against a background of conflicting policy and practice. So to clarify some of the main issues, this review sets out to identify trends in policy and practice in Britain in recent years, to summarise the evidence on effectiveness on some of the ...
The appropriate and safe use of drugs by the elderly requires special knowledge and skills if the benefits of treatment are to outweigh the risks. This review of published reports covers the use and misuse of drugs by the elderly, drug therapy in elderly patients and prescribing for the elderly. ...
The conference examined the role of the Community Health Council in relation to health promotion and health education. It was asked how far should and can CHCs influence the development of preventive strategies by health authorities and how far should CHCs become directly involved in such activities themselves. Health promotion ...
The report aims to cover the subject of incontinence as a whole with the major objective of encouraging sufferers to report it, and their doctors and nurses to become informed in its management. The following areas are discussed and recommendations established: increasing knowledge about incontinence among all professions concerned; to ...
In its report, the Royal Commission on the NHS stated that the NHS should "encourage and assist individuals to remain healthy." These papers describe two means towards achieving that objective: health education and the development of self-help groups. The first paper written by the principal research officer of the Royal ...
The introduction of the Royal Society for Health Diploma in Dental Health Education has come at a time of increasing pressure for professional recognition within the NHS hierarchy. It poses questions both of the role and career prospects for dental health educators, and also of their relationship to general health ...
The purpose of this day conference was to demonstrate the opportunities which exist to put preventive health policies into practice. Topics discussed were: current government policy on preventive health care; the role of health education; preventive mental health in primary care; prevention in obstetrics and gynaecology; health education in primary ...