Effective Utilization of Health Personnel

Factors affecting mental health service utilization among deployed military personnel.

This study contrasts the characteristics of clients using military mental health services in deployed and nondeployed settings, the communications between their mental health providers and commanders, and the impact of mental health services on their military duties. The study explored the rates of command communication and duty restrictions across settings and referral sources. The study used ...

Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers.

The use of indigenous health care workers (IHCWs), who were key elements in community health care programs in the United States in the 1960s, has gone in and out of fashion in subsequent years. The author and his colleagues recently established a service program at Wayne State University's Institute of Maternal and Child Health that employs IHCWs. Characterizations of IHCWs in previous health c...

Tri Initiative - Human Health and Effective Utilization of Tropical Forests

The past 35 years have witnessed a large-scale human migration from the densely settled areas of northeastern and southern Brazil to the Amazon basin. Desiring to escape the problems of population pressure, poverty and skewed land distribution in their home regions, settlers have moved to the Amazon hoping to carve a prosperous existence out of an unfamiliar environment. The result, however, ha...

Dental utilization by active duty Army personnel.

In spring 1989, a random, Army-wide sample of 15,364 enlisted and 4,529 officer personnel was surveyed on dental utilization. Results show no difference in annual dental utilization between officer and enlisted personnel when age is controlled. Because annual dental utilization increases with age and enlisted ranks contain a disproportionately large number of younger personnel, a difference in ...

Trends in health personnel.