This publication was produced under an Interagency Agreement between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This publication was previously published under the title Manual for Child Health Workers in Major Disasters. The first edition, printed in1981, was written by Norman L. Farberow, Ph.D.,...

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...

It has been fifteen years since the appearance of the Second Edition of this book. A lot has happened since then. The teaching reform movement has become a fact of life. Many of us have had occasion to rethink how and why we teach. Many of us have taken time to learn about the myriad of new (often OnLine) teaching devices that are available today. Among these are MOOCs (massive open online cour...

Since the mid 1990s, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Reproductive Health and Research, in collaboration with international partners, has been creating and updating global guidance for family planning, based on the best scientific evidence. In April 2008, WHO held its most recent expert meeting to update this guidance and create the fourth edition of the Medical Eligibility C...