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s are of variable length and appear to provide adequate coverage of the title. Author and subject indexes, as well as a listing of journals studied, conclude each volume. This is a valuable source of material with extensive coverage of the topic to which it is addressed. Perhaps in analogy to health care problems for persons of low income, literature in this field has been fragmented and difficult of access. Furthermore, interest in improving situations wherein poverty and ill health have become synonymous calls for cross-disciplinary approaches. The series of abstracts presented in these volumes provides an opportunity for many workers in the field to become acquainted, both with literature pertinent to their particular area of expertise, as well as materials available from other disciplines. ROBERT W. DAY COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Edited by Stanley Best. Ann Arbor: Schools of Public Health of the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota, 1967. 139 pp. This publication contains the proceedings of the Sixth Bi-Regional Conference held by the two Schools of Public Health in the Upper Midwest for 75 directors of various health programs for mothers and children in the two federal regions of the Midwest. The conference was held in 1967 to discuss Comprehensive Health Care. This report contains some interesting materials. One of the interesting reports is that of trends of changes in American family life by a sociologist. This contains an excellent description of the changes in behavior of teenagers and serves as an excellent background of understanding of some of the reasons for certain present problems which some teenagers are having today. One of the sections of this report is concerned with the trend of earlier emotional and sexual involvement, and the resulting problems of premarital intercourse, unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy, and increase in venereal disease. Another trend mentioned is that of earlier marriage, with some difficulties in premature parenthood, growing equalitarianism between
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