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Black, Jeffrey L.; Nader, Philip R.; Broyles, Shelia L.; Nelson, Julie A.
doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1991.tb07392.xpmid: 1956169
ABSTRACT: National trends in school health practice and training were assessed 10 years after the report of the 1978 American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Pediatric Education. A questionnaire was sent to 2,237 randomly selected AAP Fellows and was returned by 1,068 (48%). Seventy‐seven percent of practicing pediatricians reported involvement in some type of school‐based or school consultant activity. Those having residency training in school health and those practicing in rural areas were most likely to be involved. The most common types of activity were school‐based pre‐athletic exams (56%), consultant to special education placement (26%), and game/event physician (23%). Pediatricians were paid for 20% of sports‐related school consultation and 25% of nonsports school health activities. Didactic or clinical training in school health was offered during residency to 19%. Specific didactic topics in school health included learning and attention deficit disorders (32%), physician role in health education (15%), and sports medicine (12%). Preathletic participation exams were the most commonly performed school health activity during residency (23%), followed by serving as a school consultant (11%), and attending an individual education plan meeting (7%). Most pediatricians engaged in school health activities. However, they did so without preparation during residency and without payment for their services.
doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1991.tb07393.xpmid: 1956170
A new report from the National Asthma Education Program, Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, will present the state of the art in management of asthma. Available from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center in summer 1991, the report will be of immediate use to physicians, nurses, and other health professionals and will be disseminated widely to a variety of medical and health‐related professional associations and groups. It also will lay the foundation for a broad range of health education activities to be undertaken by the NAEP Subcommittees on Professional Education, Patient/Public Education, and School Asthma Education, as well as other organizations.
Price, James H.; Desmond, Sharon M.; Smith, Daisy
doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1991.tb07395.xpmid: 1956172
ABSTRACT: Three hundred seventy‐seven African‐American and 201 while adolescents, primarily of low socioeconomic status, were surveyed on perceptions of guns. Chi‐square analyses found significant differences by gender and ethnicity. African‐American males were more likely to have a pistol at home (47%); both African‐American males and females were more likely to have known someone who took a gun to school (57% and 47%) and to have personally known someone who had been shot (87% and 91%). Differences between African‐American and white adolescents and between males and females regarding gun control, gun safety, and consequences of gun use are described.
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