Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Survey of Rehabilitation Counseling Education Programs.
An estimated 4 to 5 million adults in the United States are considered to have a serious mental illness. Although some gains have been made in service provision for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), the increasing number of individuals with severe and life-long psychiatric disabilities continues to challenge...

CoDE: Community Diabetes Education for uninsured Mexican Americans.
Low-cost diabetes education programs that target Mexican Americans are essential to reduce the observed health disparities in this population. A culturally appropriate intervention was developed as the centerpiece of the Community Diabetes Education (CoDE) program. This article describes the structure, patient acceptance, and costs of this one-to-one educational model...

State health insurance law starting to make a difference.
Byline: Richard T. Moore COLUMN: AS I SEE IT While the national uninsured rate continues to rise, two years after the historic launch of Massachusetts health reform more than 300,000 formerly uninsured individuals now have health coverage. That is a remarkable achievement by...

Family planning advice and postpartum contraceptive use among low-income women in Mexico.
CONTEXT: In Mexico, family planning advice has been incorporated into the clinical guidelines for prenatal care. However, the relationship between women's receipt of family planning advice during prenatal care and subsequent contraceptive use has not been evaluated. METHODS: Data were collected in 2003 and 2004 in 17...

Grassroots health care coverage: local communities are trying novel approaches to providing care for the indigent and working uninsured.
The statistics are grim when it comes to health care in one of the wealthiest nations in the world: * There are 44 million Americans without health insurance. * The United States loses between $65 billion and $310 billion annually because of poor health and...

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice.
Flyvberg, B. 1998. Rationality and power: Democracy in practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-25451-8 xiii + 290 pp US$16.95 paperback. Just occasionally a book appears to have potential to change the way researchers look upon our rural communities. This book does that in what might...

Moving beyond BROKEN PROMISES.
Byline: Gary Cornelius and Joe Eaton For The Register-Guard The death on March 1 of 67-year-old Victoria Adkins - who went by the street name "Hatoon" and made her home under a blue tarp next to the University of Oregon Book Store - was a reminder that...

Ronnie Lippin Cancer Information & Resource Line Launched at TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
FIRST INTERACTIVE CANCER INFORMATION SERVICE FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY RESIDENTS WWW.LACANCERINFO.ORG LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (TCRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding more effective ways to prevent, treat and, to one day, cure cancer, has launched the Ronnie Lippin...

Recreation and health agencies: working together to promote physical activity.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. And a sedentary lifestyle is a primary risk factor for CVD. In fact, it is listed as the most common risk factor by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the same time, moderate...

Pfizer Provides Free Health Program to Reduce Health Disparities.
Successful Diabetes Health Education Toolkit Now Available Online NEW YORK, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfizer Health Solutions Inc (PHS), the care management subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, announced today that its community health program, Amigos en Salud(R)/Friends in Health(TM) is now available as an online toolkit for Community...