PATIENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS remain one of the most neglected if not one of the most obscure areas in health care. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Report to the President's Committee on Health Education (1) states that of $18.2 billion allocated for health purposes, DHEW estimates that it spends no more than $44 million on health education, about one-fifth of ...

Given that understanding the sociocultural dimensions underlying a patient's health values, beliefs, and behaviors is critical to a successful clinical encounter, cross-cultural curricula have been incorporated into undergraduate medical education. The goal of these curricula is to prepare students to care for patients from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and to recognize and appropria...

Recent advances in linear modeling in human genetics permit the resolution of the sources of assortative mating. Using these methods we examined the multivariate assortment relationships among education, general cognitive ability, and personality traits in two large samples of spouses from the Colorado Adoption Project (N = 334 couples) and the Hawaii Family Study of Cognition (N = 1165 couples...