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Annotation: This project aimed to improve the health and nutrition status of migrant farmworker women and their children under 5 years of age who received services at the Tri-County Community Health Center. The major ethnic groups comprising the clinic population were Hispanic, black, Haitian, and Caucasian. A multicisciplinary staff developed collaborative efforts with other agencies, provided birth coaching and breastfeeding classes, and recruited lay health advisors representing the several ethnic groups within the migrant population. Data collection systems and MCH protocols were also developed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Barriers to Health Care, Bilingual, BlacksHaitians, Breastfeeding, Community Health Centers, Data Collection, Head Start, Health Advisors, High risk groups, Hispanics, Immunization, Infant Mortality, Infections, Lay, Low Birthweight, Low income groups, Migrant Health Centers, Migrant Women, Migrant Women, Mothers, Nutrition, Outreach, Pregnant Women, Prenatal Care, Social Work Services

Annotation: This series assesses the impact and significance of the changes in domestic policy that have occurred under the Reagan administration and analyses the critical economic and social issues facing the nation during the 1980s and beyond. This title brings a social science perspective to bear on family change and family policy, identifies the determinants of change, and analyses the role that government has played and can play in affecting the course of family life. It analyses the trends from the perspective of children, mothers, and fathers. The contributors report on changes in the child population, their physical and mental health, academic achievements, economic status, and social behavior. It includes reports on the changing role of marriage and the family, the economic and social roles of mothers and fathers, and the implications for social policy; these reports are supported by statistical tables. The final chapter analyzes the links between government policy and family structure.

Keywords: Academic achievement, Adolescent mental health, Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescents, Child mortality, Child rearing, Child welfare, Children, Divorce, Families, Family characteristics, Family relations, Family support programs, Family support services, Fathers, Fertility, Financial support, Marital status, Public policy, Single parents, Social change, Statistics, Working mothers

Annotation: The papers presented in these proceedings reflect areas of knowledge and practice which are applicable to the delivery of services to mothers and children, adolescents, and family units. Topics covered are comprehensive health planning in perinatal care; understanding principles of genetics; role of social work in genetics; substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, and tobacco); staff reflections on caring for drug addicted pregnant women; ethno/cultural factors and perinatal care; integration of Southeast Asians into a health care system; identification of mothers with medical and social risks; access to the health system for mothers and infants at risk; nutrition, psychosocial and medical aspects; and maternal phenylketonuria as a disease born of success.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Access to prenatal care, Adolescent health services, Asian Americans, Genetics, Health planning, High risk mothers, MCH services, Maternal phenylketonuria, Perinatal care, Social work, Sociocultural factors, Substance abuse, Substance abusing pregnant women

Annotation: This book contains the proceedings of a workshop jointly sponsored by Columbia University School of Social Work and the Social Work Departments of Harlem, Morristown Memorial, Mt. Sinai, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Presbyterian, and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. Presentations were given on: the ethics of ethnic concerns and the ethnic patient: implications for medical social work practice. Six workshop groups met to discuss three clinical vignettes and to determine the impact of cultural issues in each vignette. A summary of the workshops is included.

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Keywords: Cultural diversity, Health services, Social work

Annotation: This publication is a summary of a conference held on May 11, 1983. The conference focused on the necessity for involving the family in a patient's medical and psychiatric care. Topics covered include: public health social work in maternal and child health, examples of family-focused practice in hospitals, and standards of social work practice.

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Keywords: Family centered services, Public health, Social work

Annotation: This annotated bibliography consolidates the spectrum of knowledge of many disciplines needed to understand the complex interrelationships of biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence the use of health and social services by ethnic minority groups. [Funded by Maternal and Child Health Services]

Keywords: Bibliographies, Ethnic groups, Health services, Minority groups, Social work, Sociocultural factors

Annotation: This booklet was produced subsequent to a national workshop on Nutrition and Social Work in Primary Care Services, Arlington, Virginia, May 31-June 3, 1981. The event was co-sponsored with the National Association of Community Health Care Centers and the National Rural Primary Care Association. Sixty-eight administrators, nutritionists and social workers from primary health care centers, state and local health departments, and central and regional offices of the Department of Health and Human Services participated in the discussions. This workshop was a first step directed toward strengthening nutrition and social work services in primary care and facilitating closer working relationships between local and state health departments, primary health care centers, and the Federal government. This report summarizes the issues and barriers in providing nutrition and social work services, and the actions recommended to improve services in primary health care programs. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Collaboration, Community health centers, Interagency cooperation, Nutrition services, Primary care, Primary care facilities, Service delivery, Social work

Annotation: These are the proceedings of a conference held June 22-25, 1980, which focused on the integration and regionalization of maternal and child health services. Topics covered include: citizen involvement in community services, ramifications of regionalization for health professionals and their agencies, delivering integrated services, and special problem areas in extending and linking services (unmarried adolescent fathers, improvement of pregnancy outcomes for native Americans).

Keywords: Child health services, Collaboration, Conference proceedings, Health services, Interagency cooperation, Maternal health services, Social workers

Annotation: These proceedings are from a four-day national conference held from July 14-17, 1980 at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Some of the goals of the the conference included: (1) orientation of participants to current status of knowledge, attitudes and skill with regard to social aspects of mental retardation and directions for interdisciplinary training programs, (2) provision of medium and opportunity for discussion of the information presented, (3) formulation of guidelines with regard to social content that would assist university affiliated and other interdisciplinary training units in formulating core curricula. [Funded by Office of Maternal and Child Health]

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Keywords: Conference proceedings, Curriculum development, Interdisciplinary approach, Interdisciplinary training, Mental retardation, Social services, Social work, University affiliated programs

Annotation: This publication presents selected papers from the 1980 Tri-Regional Workshop for Social Workers in Maternal and Child Health Services. Topics discussed are state-based child health care; developing networks in a state-based system of health care for families; social work in health programs for families, mothers, and children; essentials of social work practice in public health programs; strategies for establishing an effective social work program; recent trends in genetic programs and their implications for social workers; development of services for children with handicapping conditions; the state consultant's role in implementing a state-based system of health care; the multi-method approach to practice; neglectful families and the measurement of change resulting from social work intervention; enabling immigrants to obtain early preventive care; and research for the social work practitioner. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Children with developmental disabilities, Conferences, Dysfunctional families, Genetic services, Immigrants, Maternal health, Preventive health services, Research, Social work, State health agencies

Annotation: This book is based on the proceedings of the Public Health Social Work Institute held at Berkeley in June 1978. It discusses prevention of undesirable consequences in pregnancy; species specific patterns of human reproductive behavior; alternative birthing; interplay between nutritional and psychosocial factors of child development; high school based child care settings; immunization; health needs of adolescents; adolescence and contraception; adolescence and venereal disease; adolescent family planning; peer sex education; chronic disease; crisis intervention; the educational, professional, and policy perspectives of prevention; autogenic training; prevention of obesity in children and adolescents; and early maternal infant bonding. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Service]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Alternative birth styles, Bonding, Child care services, Child development, Children, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Contraception, Crisis intervention, Family planning, Health, High schools, Immunization, Mother child relations, Nutrition, Obesity, Peer education, Pregnancy, Psychosocial development, Reproductive behavior, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social workers

Annotation: This social work problem classification system provides a set of codes to use in classifying the results of the assessment function for social workers. It was developed within the framework of a multidisciplinary program for the delivery of child health services. The codes are intended to assist in identification of problems and to describe health status; to make summarization's of problems and status easier for groups of served persons; to be used in patient care planning, care evaluation audit, and review; and to form a base for field research.

Keywords: Assessment, Child health services, Classification, Evaluation, Health status, Patient care planning, Research, Social work

Annotation: These proceedings focus primarily on the application of evaluation methodologies to social work services in the health field.

Keywords: Community health services, Evaluation, Social work

Annotation: This annual workshop was designed to meet the practice needs of social workers providing services under Title V of the Social Security Act in areas III, IV, and VI. Each workshop consisted of a variety of presentations on topics including: the role of the social worker, serving high-risk families, adolescent lifestyle, working with underserved populations, problems of the single-parent family, chronic illness and disability in families, ethical considerations in health care, and genetically transmitted diseases.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Children with special health care needs, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Public health services, Social work

Annotation: This book contains papers presented at a meeting of directors of social service departments in pediatric hospitals in April 16-20, 1972. Papers given included: some new frontiers for child health care in the seventies; accountability and the professional social worker; workshop on administration; social work effectiveness; task centered casework; and family life style characteristics and child health care.

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Keywords: Child health services, Families, Social work

Annotation: This report presents the formal papers of the third biannual Institute for Social Workers in Maternity and Infant Care, Children and Youth Projects, Crippled Children's Services, and Mental Retardation Programs. The institute was cosponsored by the Public Health Social Work Program, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh and the Maternal and Child Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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Keywords: Accountability, Adolescent health programs, Child health programs, Children with special health care needs, Federal MCH programs, Infant care, Maternal health services, Mental retardation, Social work

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Keywords: Health care delivery, MCH programs, Social services, Social workers

Annotation: This report discusses the needs for child health services in Britain, the present number of pediatricians, their distribution and responsibilities, and the contribution which general practitioners and other professionals (health visitors, social workers) can make to the domiciliary care of children, and to the school health service. Special areas of care and need are explored and the need for development of pediatric specialists is presented. The final section of the report discusses the training of pediatricians and concludes with a summarized reiteration of proposals and recommendations.

Keywords: Child health services, Great Britain, Home care services, Pediatricians, Social workers

Annotation: This report is taken from a workshop held in Chicago, April 13-18, 1970. Chapters include: the needs of children and families in our society today; new approach to comprehensive health care for families; organization for the delivery of social work services in hospitals; systems approach to program evaluation; plight of minority group children; intervention in child abuse; community based health program and hospital social services; and administrative considerations in programming for specific services.

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Keywords: Child abuse, Families, Health services, Program evaluation, Social work

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Keywords: Child health, Community health services, Community participation, Early intervention, Health care systems, Infant health, Lead poisoning, MCH nurses, MCH programs, Maternal health, Paraprofessional personnel, Social workers