Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences back issues from January 1999:
The improvement of public health through the teaching of hygiene in the elementary schools
Jan 01, 1999; ... THE IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.1 Frances Stern, of Massachusetts, was a member of the Association from 1910-1930. This article was taken from the Journal of Home Economics, Volume II, No. 6, December 1910. Do you know of ...
Your Alexandria, VA headquarters staff: Partners for advancement
Jan 01, 1999; ... The goal of any professional association is to fulfill its social mission and to be responsive to its members. As members of AAFCS we want and expect our association to function at the highest level, for it to be responsive to the needs of our members and to be a strong voice for a high quality ...
Change: An option we can't refuse
Jan 01, 1999; ... In Strategic Leadership of the Profession: Agenda for Change, authors Dorothy I. Mitstifer, Executive Director, Kappa Omicron Nu, and Julia R. Miller, Dean, College of Human Ecology, Michigan State University, reviewed "resources in the literature to provide a foundation of trends, cutting-edge ...
Multidisciplined theory, thought, and practice: Current perspectives on food, families, nutrition, and therapy
Jan 01, 1999; ... An interview with Ellyn Satter by Colleen Babcock "Health care" is described by adjectives such as integrated, coordinated, comprehensive, alternative, complementary, patient-centered, family-centered, and collaborative. Health care teams are described as interdisciplinary or ...
Normal eating...
Jan 01, 1999; ... Is being able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it - not just stop eating because you think you should. Normal eating is being able to use some moderate constraint in your food ...
Headline news
Jan 01, 1999; ... * Between 1965 and 1991, the percent of U.S. teenage boys who ate breakfast decreased from 90 percent to 75 percent and the percent of U.S. teenage girls who ate breakfast decreased from 84 percent to 65 percent (Continuing Intake Survey of Food Intake by Individuals, USDA). Data on more than ...
Jump into physical activity
Jan 01, 1999; ... Despite compelling reasons to increase their activity levels, many Americans lead sedentary lifestyles. Consider the following statistics from the Surgeon Generals Report on Physical Activity and Health. Only 22 percent of adults engage in physical activity sufficient to derive health ...
What is the value of choice?
Jan 01, 1999; ... In 1987, after nine years of practice in clinical medicine, DR. LINDA PEENO switched to medical administration. Attracted by the predictable hours and good pay, she became an HMO executive and for the next four years reviewed medical claims for various managed-care organizations. Her final role ...
The coming financial collapse of the U.S. health care system
Jan 01, 1999; ... The aging of the Baby Boomers will end health care financing as we know it. The title of this article is rather frightening, of course, but the facts merit it. The huge numbers of aging Baby Boomers (those Americans born between 1946 and 1964) will soon force drastic changes in how we ...
Rural minority health: How do we respond to a voice of audacious and unjustified hope?
Jan 01, 1999; ... How Do We Respond to a Voice of Audacious and Unjustified Hope? "President's Message, " Rural Health FYI, January/February, 1998 Tim Size, President, National Rural Health Association This is a particularly tough topic. Beyond the basic challenges of rural health, we ...
Ethics: Point-counterpoint
Jan 01, 1999; ... Although alternative medicine is a new treatment used in the United States, according to the World Health Organization, 65% to 88% of the world's health care services can be classified as alternative (commonly referred to as traditional, since most of these approaches derive from ancient ...
A holistic approach to public policy
Jan 01, 1999; ... On an annual basis, I am asked to make a presentation to the AAFCS Board of Directors on the issues and concerns that will be addressed at the federal level, by Congress, and by various agencies in the Executive Branch, which are of interest to members. This is not an easy task because of the ...
HHS releases consumer guide to quality health care
Jan 01, 1999; ... On December 16, 1998, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala launched a new interactive guide to help consumers when making decisions about their health care. Developed by HHS Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), the new guide was unveiled by HHS Deputy Secretary Kevin L. Thurm at the ...
Today's students are likely to become tomorrow's financially strapped adults
Jan 01, 1999; ... America's young adults are leaving school without any basic skills in personal finance, putting them at high risk of becoming adults who end up over their heads in debt, in bankruptcy court or without adequate savings to retire, shows a new book just published by the Jump$tart Coalition for ...
Safe food handling optimizes family nutrition
Jan 01, 1999; ... ASRC The health implications for food and nutrition are well accepted and recognized. Safe food handling is also part of the nutrition and health continuum. Recent surveys point out the sometimes significant gaps between consumer practices and recommended behaviors for minimizing risks ....
On being an advocate
Jan 01, 1999; ... "A museum with no opportunity to touch is a vacant lot for patrons who happen to be blind." "The civil right's and women's movements teach us that we impoverish ourselves when we impoverish others." "Medicare's view of wages has been based on a simplistic and erroneous model of ...
Fight Bac!
Jan 01, 1999; ... The Partnership for Food Safety Education is a coalition of industry, government, and consumer groups founded as a result of the president's Food Safety Initiative. The purpose of the Partnership is to reduce the incidence of food-borne illness by educating Americans about safe food-handling ...
World food problems: A course summary
Jan 01, 1999; ... World Food Problems is a resident instruction course offered by the College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. The course provides a multidisciplinary approach to international food problems and possible solutions affecting food ...
The rise of food studies
Jan 01, 1999; ... Scholarship on food has shifted from a practical to an aesthetic and social focus, writes Emily Jenkins, the author of Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture (Henry Holt/Owl Books, 1998). Food has always played a role in literature and politics, writes Ms. Jenkins, citing lines from Proust ...
The conquest of disease: It's almost within sight
Jan 01, 1999; ... The following was abstracted from an article in The Futurist, January 1999 (Vol. 33, .Vo.1) authored by William B. Schwartz. "Exactly where we will stand in the long war against disease by the year 2050 is impossible to say. But if developments in research maintain their current pace, ...
Fact sheet on CHIP and Child Support Enforcement (CSE)
Jan 01, 1999; ... The following summary outlines HCFA's Child Support Enforcement policy under Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The substance of the fact sheet explains that under separate state CHIP programs, there are no federal requirements. Under Medicaid CHIP expansions, the usual ...
Medicare top health issue for new Congress
Jan 01, 1999; ... Health issues rank high on the voters; list of top priorities for the new Congress, according to a new survey conducted immediately after the election by The Kaiser Family Foundation, <www.kff.org>, and Harvard School of Public Health. Of sixteen issues voters were asked about, ...
USDA report encourages Americans to remember nutritional needs when eating out
Jan 01, 1999; ... Release No. 0060-99 Washington, Feb. 16, 199-Increasingly, America's family dining table is not at home but at a fast-food outlet or restaurant. Yet, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the nutritional content of meals eaten away from home is failing to ...
Hunger and food insecurity
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Approximately 30 million Americans, including 11 million children, currently experience hunger and food insecurity. Assistance programs and policies help alleviate poverty and food insecurity; however, the rate of hunger and malnutrition has increased. Recent welfare reform ...
Hunger and food security--a worldwide problem
Jan 01, 1999; ... Hunger wears many faces in the world. On the eve of the 21 st century, it appears impossible to address hunger in the United States without thinking about human rights as a framework for food security in an interdependent world. Many problems associated with poverty and hunger respect no ...
Health in the family and consumer sciences curriculum: Full circle?
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Historical college curricula in home economics programs addressed health needs of society through courses in home sanitation, nutrition and food preparation, personal hygiene, and home nursing. Colleges dropped these courses from the home economics core curriculum as health ...
A soybean education curriculum for preschoolers: Introducing new foods to children
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT The purposes of this project were to identify factors that influence children's food choices, to examine the effectiveness of a curriculum for introducing children to soybeans, and to investigate children's acceptance of foods that contain a soy product. Soy snacks and ...
10 reasons to include soyfoods and soy protein in your diet
Jan 01, 1999; ... You will be in good Company. Twenty five percent of Americans are eating meatless meals more often than they were one year ago. Soyfoods, for many of these people, are becoming one of their basic food groups. Lower your cholesterol. Between forty and sixty percent of the U.S. adult population is ...
Pediatric health care: Parents' views on child life services
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT This study examined parental satisfaction with their child's pediatric visit with and without child life services. ANOVA revealed no significant differences in satisfaction levels between parents who had and had not experienced child life services. Hierarchical regression ...
Dietary intake in young female gymnasts: A summary
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Artistic gymnastics is a popular sport among young females, but, unfortunately, inadequate nutrient intakes are prevalent in these gymnasts. This article, based on summaries of 12 cross-sectional studies published between 1984 and 1998, examines nutrient inadequacies in diets ...
Lead poisoning: A major public health concern
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Today, lead poisoning is the leading environmental health risk in America, particularly in young children. Screening mandates by states, in addition to evidence that lead is toxic at lower levels than previously thought, make it increasingly important for family and consumer ...
Abstract of a surveillance report for 1996 and 1997 on lead poisoning amond children less than age six in Nebraska
Jan 01, 1999; ... Lead poisoning among young children remains a serious public health concern in both rural and urban Nebraska. The state epidemiological report summarized here shows that in 1996 and 1997 a total of 1,275 Nebraska children age 0 to 5 years were found to have blood lead levels above 10 ug/dl-which ...
Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT The health care evolution affects families in how they use and pay for health care. Communities face changes in the types of providers available as well as how community members make choices to use the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to describe the current ...
Health policy: A land-grant perspective
Jan 01, 1999; ... LOIS WRIGHT MORTON, Ph.D. Department of Policy Analysis and Management Cornell University Health policy is constructed by a series of decisions, both deliberate and inadvertent, that have effects at the individual, community, state, and national level. Three essential ...
Hats for sun protection
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Hats for sun protection are of interest because of the increasing incidence of skin cancer. Visitors at a farm show educational exhibit tried on five alternative hat styles, answered questions about them, and were screened for skin cancer. Fifty percent reported that very ...
Sun's up! Cover up!
Jan 01, 1999; ... ROSE MARIE TONDL Extension Clothing Specialist Published by Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln NebFacts - NF97-339 Do you think you look better with a suntan? Do you think you feel healthier with a ...
Nutritional assessment of breast cancer risk in young women
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT The article compares the dietary intakes, anthropometric measurements, perceptions of risk for developing cancer, and activity levels of young women at risk for developing cancer because of a family history (FH) of breast cancer with women who did not have a family history ...
Concerns raised on breast milk
Jan 01, 1999; ... Universally, doctors agree that the best nourishment for infants, physically and psychologically, is mother's breast milk. Public health advocates are beginning to ask if breast milk is a potential source of exposure to toxic substances for nursing infants. Toxic chemicals including DDT, PCBs, ...
Vitamin-mineral supplementation habits and beliefs of male and female graduate students
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Reasons given by 88 female and 88 male graduate students on written questionnaires for taking or not taking vitaminmineral supplements were examined. Supplements were taken by 67% (n = 59) of women and 52% (n = 46) of men. Subjects most frequently took supplements for present ...
National Academy of Sciences introduces new calcium recommendations
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT Osteoporosis is a serious, chronic condition of porous (easily fractured) bones. It develops silently and slowly over time and is directly related to decreased calcium storage in the bones. New calcium recommendations have been published by the National Academy of Sciences. The ...
Special programme for food security at the food and agriculture organization
Jan 01, 1999; ... Food security is defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as access by all people at all times to the food needed for a healthy and active life. Achieving food security means ensuring that sufficient food is available, that supplies are relatively stable, and that those in need of ...
Global health policy
Jan 01, 1999; ... The World Health Organization has published a new global health policy aimed at meeting the major challenges in health during the next decades. The report was developed by the World Health Organization in consultation with all its national and international partners. Involved were inter alia, ...
World population report: 1998
Jan 01, 1999; ... "Thanks to unprecedented efforts over the last 30 years, the momentum of population growth has slowed, is slowing, and could slow still further in the coming decades. At the same time, world population is growing at over 80 million a year, and will only gradually fall from these levels. In 1987, ...
Planting seeds: Mentoring to include certification
Jan 01, 1999; ... Mentoring is an educational process in which the mentor serves as a teacher or guide, points the way, and encourages. Mentors are often role models who serve as advisors and, in a sense, who plant seeds of wisdom to enlighten others in plotting their future courses and actions. Among family and ...
Accreditation and accountability
Jan 01, 1999; ... Increasingly programs in higher education are expected to address quality and accountability by the administration within their institution, boards of higher education (regents, trustees, etc.), legislators, state and federal agencies, parents, potential students, and the general public. Terms ...
Notables
Jan 01, 1999; ... Jane Schuchardt is the recipient of the first fellowship awarded by the Colorado-based National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE). Schuchardt is the National Program Leader for Family Economics Programs with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and ...
Obituary: Helen Strow
Jan 01, 1999; ... Helen Strow (July 28, 1904 - Feburary 8, 1999) Helen Strow served in the government and the public sector nationally and internationally, spanning a 60-year period. She was a resident of Washington for over 35 years and an Extension professional and long time champion of the ...
Family businesses: A unique blending of family and work
Jan 01, 1999; ... Many of the graduates of family and consumer sciences programs in higher education want to or do engage in a family business at some point in a career path. The motivations for becoming involved in family business are many but could includefulfilling a drive for being one's own boss, ...
Membership--how you can help
Jan 01, 1999; ... When I see the flame of the Betty Lamp, I think about AAFCS membership. The hottest part of the flame is the center; it burns so hot that you can't always see it. The current members are at the center of the flame. If those members reach out to perspective members, the flame will burn brighter ...
Here's to your health
Jan 01, 1999; ... Do you remember when time dedicated to thinking about your health, and the health environment, was slotted into one hour ... the hour spent at the doctor's office for your annual physical examination? I remember thinking that health issues were "crisis" issues: accidents, the flu, or issues of ...
Correction
Jan 01, 1999; ... The order of authors for the manuscript "Clothing and Textile Curricula in Higher Education" printed in the Winter 1998 issue was incorrect. The correct order of ...
An ecological approach to understanding family and community relationships
Jan 01, 1999; ... Journal of Home Economics, March 1974 As professionals, many of us claim that we are oriented toward the family, although more often than not, we are concerned only with working with one individual member of a family. Although we may focus from time to time on that one individual's ...
An AAFCS community for the 21ST century
Jan 01, 1999; ... Robert Theobald, internationally known futurist, builds a case for a future he calls "the compassionate era" in his book Turning the Century: Personal and Organizational Strategies for Your Changed World. He persuasively argues that the future of any community is too important to be left to ...
A place and a time for us
Jan 01, 1999; ... The tragic news of youth killing youth at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, has the entire nation searching for answers. The news media, experts in many professions, parents, teachers, and students are all asking, "Why?" and "What, if anything, could have been done to prevent this?" ...
An open summit on the future...a community of professionals
Jan 01, 1999; ... More than 150 family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals met in Texas to discuss the future of the profession February 3-6, 1999. The meeting has generated much dialogue about the profession, fields of study, and the future. The purpose of the summit was to develop a unified ...
Transformation in the University and the community: The benefits and barriers of collaboration
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT This paper discusses characteristics of a campus culture that are necessary to develop and sustain significant university-community partnerships, describes some benefits and barriers of collaboration, and presents a model for the process of collaboration. To be successful in ...
A new understanding of the fundamental foundation of human behavior
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT This article examines a new methodology for understanding the complexities of human nature. It is unlike most other models for explaining behavior that fall into two broad categories of interpretation: one, which assumes behavior is fundamentally biologically determined, that ...
Resilient communities--resilient families in the 21st century
Jan 01, 1999; ... ABSTRACT The century shift is focusing attention on the way we live and work and on the need to maintain vital functions when challenged by risk factors inherent in change-- to develop resiliency. The family and consumer sciences profession can seize the moment to focus on the future of ...
Point--counterpoint: Parenting time
Jan 01, 1999; ... The theme of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) 1999 Annual Meeting encourages and directs constituents to invest in families through personal and professional contributions that help family members maintain a healthy lifestyle. The convention theme challenged us to ...
Setting our public policy agenda: Taking care and taking focus
Jan 01, 1999; ... The AAFCS Board of Directors (at the February meeting) agreed to focus the association's efforts on the following public policy issues: Child care; Nutrition, specifically food safety and the revision of the dietary guidelines; The national shortage of teachers for ...
What does giving have to do with community development?
Jan 01, 1999; ... Everything! If we broaden the context of community beyond geographic or living space and think of a social group of any size, whose members have a common culture and heritage and share a common identity, then Family and Consumer Sciences is clearly a community. We perceive ourselves as distinct ...
Building successful community collaboration programming for cooperative extension survival at the county level
Jan 01, 1999; ... The building of public and community support for local cooperative extension (CE) programs and of ongoing staff interactions with clients, community, and stakeholders, is a part of the daily rounds of county staff. Constant acts of nurturance and maintenance of relationships establish a solid ...
Cooperative learning experiences: Meeting the needs of culturally diverse students
Jan 01, 1999; ... The United States has experienced a 51.3% increase in the number of language-minority children between 1985 and 1991. The number of language-minority students is anticipated to grow by 2-1/2 times the rate of the general student population between 1996 and 2000 (Casbon, Schirmer, & Twiss, ...
Service learning: An avenue to community partnerships with section 8 family self-sufficiency program
Jan 01, 1999; ... SERVICE LEARNING Definitions of service learning are varied. "The term `service learning' can be loosely defined as an educational activity, program, or curriculum that seeks to promote student learning through experiences associated with volunteerism or community service." McAleavey ...
Beyond delusion: Science and policy dialogue on designing effective indicators of sustainable development
Jan 01, 1999; ... The Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development has launched an international science and policy dialogue to improve existing sustainable development indicators. This initiative will combine the best scientific insight with the practical needs of decision makers, allowing indicator experts to ...