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U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. 1995. Proceedings of the international collaborative effort on injury statistics, Vol. I. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 305 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings stem from a meeting held May 18-20, 1994 which was designed to allow members of the International Collaborative Effort to improve comparability and quality of injury data. Sections address levels and trends in injury mortality and morbidity in selected participating countries, sources of injury related data and special methodological problems, current problems in producing comparable international mortality and morbidity statistics, data needs, linkage issues and coding issues.

Contact: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 5419, Hyattsville, MD 20782, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 Contact Phone: (301) 436-7039 Fax: (301) 458-4020 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs Available from the website. Document Number: DHHS (PHS) 95-1252.

Keywords: Australia, Canada, Clinical coding, Denmark, England, France, Injury surveillance systems, International classification of diseases, International data, Israel, Morbidity, Mortality, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Statistical reference sources, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, United States

Lamb ME, Sternberg KJ, Hwang CP, Broberg AG, eds. 1992. Child care in context: Cross-cultural perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 542 pp.

Annotation: Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that covers both historic and economic contexts, this book characterizes child care in 18 countries on 5 continents. Specific historical roots and the current social contexts of child care are delineated in industrialized as well as in developing countries. Each chapter includes insights from commentators of the particular country being discussed. The editors point out that child care is an integral part of the web of influences and experiences that shape children's development.

Contact: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19160, Telephone: (215) 625-8900 Secondary Telephone: (800) 354-1420 Fax: (215) 625-2940 Web Site: http://www.leaonline.com/?cookieSet=1 $39.95 paperback, $89.95 cloth; plus $2.00 shipping and handling; make checks payable to Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Document Number: 0-8058-0798-5.

Keywords: Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Child care, China, Cultural factors, East Africa, International perspectives, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Mencher GT. 1972 (ca.). Report of a visit to Israel and Yugoslavia, July 15-October 9, 1972 under the Exchange of Experts Program. [Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska] , 49 pp.

Smilansky S. 1968. The effects of sociodramatic play on disadvantaged pre-school children. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 164 pp.

Annotation: This book reports on a study of preschool children of immigrants to Israel from various Middle Eastern and North African countries that used sociodramatic play to help these children become better able to cope with the demands of elementary schools. The book looks at sociodramatic play as a type of play phenomenon, comparison of sociodramatic play of children from advantaged sociocultural backgrounds with that of children from disadvantaged sociocultural strata, theories of the differences observed, and an experiment designed to further sociodramatic play in culturally deprived groups.

Keywords: Cultural barriers, Cultural factors, Israel, Kindergarten, Minority groups, Play, Preschool children, Role playing, School readiness, Sociocultural factors

Spiro ME, Spiro AG. 1965. Children of the kibbutz. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 500 pp.

Annotation: This book is a study of child training and personality intended to serve as a detailed case study of collective education in an Israeli kibbutz to provide an understanding of the socialization system that characterizes the kibbutz movement. The second aim of this study is to test the predictive value of ontogenetic culture and personality theory by attempting to related selected personality characteristics of the sabras of the kibbutz to selected aspects of its socialization system. The study has both descriptive and theoretical aims.

Keywords: Child development, Israel, Personality development, Socialization

Grushka,T, ed. 1959. Health services in Israel: A ten year survey—1948-1958. Jerusalem, Israel: [Israel] Ministry of Health, 214 pp.

Annotation: This book is a report on the efforts made in Israel to organize modern health services. Covering the period 1948-1958, the report also appraises the changes in the health situation during the first ten years of the existence of Israel.

Keywords: Health surveys, International health, Israel, Public health
   

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