This review cannot pretend to be inclusive. Other appropriate facets of prevention for children and youth--parent training, for example, or school-based competence building (affective education)--have not been discussed. What can ADAMHA do to move pr...

Although differences in hemoglobin levels between blacks and whites may be due in part to genetic influences, low hemoglobin levels in black girls of childbearing age may nevertheless constitute a health hazard. To study this problem, hemoglobin leve...

Publication of the "Atlas of Cancer Mortality for U.S. Counties, 1950-1969" caused a great deal of concern in counties shown in the Atlas to have had high cancer mortality rates in relation to the United States as a whole. An analysis was made of tem...

The possible association between fasting glucose, cholesterol, triglyceride, blood pressure, and body weight in children and the early occurrence of paternal myocardial infarction (MI) was explored by examination of 91 children of 38 fathers who had ...

On cover: Prevention of mental illness.