Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on S. 1944 ... November 19, 1991, Volume 4 |
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Page 6 - Nation's elementary and secondary schools that provide planned and sequential kindergarten-12th grade comprehensive school health education. (Baseline data unavailable) 8.5 Increase to at least 50 percent the proportion of postsecondary institutions with institution-wide health promotion programs for students, faculty, and staff.
Page 46 - Smoking rates are higher among blacks, blue-coilar workers, and less-educated people Children (especially girls) are starting to smoke at earlier ages More than 3.000...
Page 20 - Sciences and was on their Commission on Life Sciences. He was a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute (1976-82).
Page 7 - ... provide a context that is crucial to decisions and programs to achieve a nation of healthy people. Promoting Health and Preventing Disease: Progress Ten years is also long enough to bring about marked changes in the Nation's health (Fig. 1.1). During the 1980s, there were major declines in death rates for three of the leading causes of death among Americans: heart disease, stroke, and unintentional injuries. Infant mortality also decreased, and some childhood infectious diseases were nearly eliminated....
Page 7 - First, personal responsibility, which is to say responsible and enlightened behavior by each and every individual, truly is the key to good health. Evidence of this still-evolving perspective abounds in our concern about the dangers of smoking and the abuse of alcohol and drugs; in the emphasis that we are placing on physical and emotional fitness; in our growing interest in good nutritional practices; and in our concern about the quality of our...
Page 2 - One in nine women will develop breast cancer at some time in their lives. In 1991 it is estimated t%t 175,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 44,500 women will die.
Page 22 - Alabama River Improvement Association for FY 2002. We are particularly interested in the operations and maintenance funding that keeps the navigation channel open. We feel that top priority should be given in order to attract new riverusing industry into the Alabama River...
Page 2 - Breast cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death among females [5, 7].
Page 36 - It would create a permanent authorization for an Office for Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health and...
Page 40 - Health (ORWH) addresses a three-fold mandate: 1) to strengthen and enhance research related to diseases and conditions that affect women...