Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session

Front Cover

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 424 - We must increase our efforts to identify and educate more of the talent of our Nation. This requires programs that will give assurance that no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need...
Page 424 - The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the Nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of its young men and women.
Page 190 - I testify today on behalf of the Association of American Universities and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, whose members represent most of the major research universities in the United States.
Page 49 - We must not relax our effort to push back the frontiers of knowledge in basic and applied research into the mental processes, in therapy, and in other phases of research with a bearing upon mental illness.
Page 301 - Blacks and other minorities and to address the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in the health professions. Mr. Chairman, despite the recent federal support that has been provided to our institutions, there is a historic shortage of minorities in the health professions While Blacks represent approximately 12% of the US population, only 2-3% of the nation's physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and veterinarians are Black. Studies have demonstrated that when blacks are trained in the...
Page 246 - Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Page 49 - ... help. We must also expand our research efforts if we are to learn more about how to prevent and treat the crippling or malfunction of the mind. Third, we must strengthen and improve the programs and facilities serving the mentally ill and the mentally retarded. The emphasis should be upon timely and intensive diagnosis, treatment, training, and rehabilitation so that the mentally...
Page 503 - Federal programs and funds in the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Page 300 - Dentistry, in Nashville, TN; the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, CA; the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA; the Florida...
Page 774 - Act at or through institutes under the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration...