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Size | 12.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1350 items) |
Abstract | Graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health; served as director of the school's clinical field education program, 1960s-1990s. Collection chronicles health issues explored from the 1960s through the 1990s by Leonard Dawson and public health students. Included are documents related to the planning and execution of field training programs and to ongoing projects and conferences. One of the major projects was the work of Capital Health Systems Agency, an organization created by federal law to promote a health care system which provided quality care at affordable costs. Student analyses of health issues are found in team-written community reports, individual project reports, and master's papers. The community studies and most of the project reports involve organizations and locales within North Carolina and nearby areas and thus are particularly relevant to health issues in North Carolina and the South generally, although some concern other states and foreign countries. |
Creator | Dawson, Leonard H., 1937- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Arturo S. Bagley, April 1997
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2021
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Leonard H. Dawson received his MSPH degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health in 1963. After working as a health educator in the Colbert County, Ala., Health Department, he returned to North Carolina to work for the Chapel Hill public health department. From there, he returned to UNC's School of Public Health where at his retirement in 1996 he was clinical associate professor.
Back to TopThe papers of Leonard H. Dawson chronicle the activities of the UNC School of Public Health during the years in which Dawson was associated with it, first as a field counselor and later as the director of the school's clinical field education program. It contains papers from the school's advisory committee of the department of health education; papers documenting the planning and execution of field training programs; documents from projects and conferences in which Dawson was involved; student community reports; student project reports; and student master's papers. The Department of Health Education Advisory Committee files, the field training files, and the project and conferences files are of interest both in terms of health issues in specific locales and in terms of the school of public health's program, while the student reports and papers solely concern analysis of health-related issues.
Back to TopArrangement: by type.
Papers related to Dawson's work on the Advisory Committee of the Department of Health Education, a group with members from both inside and outside the school of public health which advised the school on all aspects of its teaching, research, and community service programs. In order to preserve the original ordering of the Papers, the collection retains their division into a section of master files separated into topics and undifferentiated papers which have been organized chronologically by academic year.
Arrangement: by type.
The agenda section contains memoranda describing the agenda for meetings of the committee in 1973 and 1974. 'Minutes' are included from meetings ranging from 1970 through 1974. 'Students and faculty' contains student biographies and faculty curricula vitae.
'Curriculum and reading materials' contains a comprehensive examination, a reading list, memorandum on skills necessary for competence in health education, documents required for the field practice and U.S. field seminar, a list of class meetings and topics for a health education practitioner seminar, and an outline of departmental doctoral programs.
Folder 1 |
Agenda, Minutes, Students & Faculty |
Folder 2 |
Curriculum and Reading Materials |
Arrangement: chronological.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly memoranda and notes related to school of public health's field training plans, including field counselor's conferences held on campus, and actual field training experiences. There is also some correspondence related to these issues.
Arrangement: by subject.
Materials include notes, correspondence, agenda, and other materials related to various conferences and ongoing projects which Dawson attended or was involved with. The folders are arranged by the name of the project. Generally, the project name gives a good idea of what each project entails.
The Capital Health Systems Agency materials include notes from meetings, drafts of statement on health education for a health systems plan, and an agenda of the agency's public involvement committee. Folder 15i contains a report on an agency board survey by UNC students. Folder 15j contains two reports on the agency's activities, "Representative Accountability and Board and Staff Attitudes as Determinants of Consumer Influence in an HSA" and "A Case Study of Consumer Participation and Influence in an HSA" authored by Dawson and his UNC colleague Allan Steckler.
Folder 15a-15j |
Capital Health Systems |
Folder 16 |
Center for Health Planning |
Folder 17 |
Developing Skills in Soft Data Collection |
Folder 18 |
Grants Workshop |
Folder 19 |
Health Education-Mandate for the Eighties |
Folder 20 |
Health Education Risk Reduction Project |
Folder 21 |
Health Planning/Development Center |
Folder 22 |
McDowell County (W.Va.) Health Education Program |
Folder 23 |
Outreach Conference |
Folder 24 |
Plan Development and Implementation of Health Education Services |
Folder 25 |
Practical Training in Health Education |
Folder 26a-26b |
Public and Consumer Involvement in Health Planning and the Health Policy Process |
Folder 27 |
Rural Health Promotion Resource Center |
Folder 28 |
Serving Underserved Communities |
Folder 29 |
United Nations Development Programme |
Folder 30 |
Wisconsin Community Education Program |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
These are reports written by teams of graduate students analyzing strengths, weaknesses, and needs of individual communities.
Folder 31 |
Problem Solving at the Neighborhood Level |
Folder 32 |
Apex (Wake County, N.C.): The Community's Perspective |
Folder 33 |
Building Bridges: An Inside Look at Chapel Hill's Public Housing Community |
Folder 34 |
Creedmoor, North Carolina |
Folder 35 |
Morgantown |
Folder 36 |
Prospect Hill: Changes and Challenges |
Folder 37 |
Warren County: A Community Diagnosis |
Arrangement: chronological.
Field experience reports of graduate students, organized by title. The focus of the project is usually apparent from the title. Most of the project reports involve organizations and locales within North Carolina; a few involve other states and foreign countries.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
The report for the project housed in folder 129, Making the Video 'Saving Our Sisters: Breaking the Silence About Breast Cancer,' refers to the video which is shelved separately.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Folder 162's Project, Superconfidential Counseling and Testing at Duke University, concerns an HIV program. Included with the report is a cassette recording of an HIV radio program, which is shelved separately.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: chronological.
Master's papers completed by students in the school of public health, organized by academic year and title.
Folder 198 |
Citizen Participation and Public Health |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Folder 229 |
Health Promotion in North Carolina Schools: Local Health Department Involvement |
Folder 230 |
A Proposed Plan of Social Marketing for Family Planning Programs in Indonesia |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Folder 237 |
School-Based Clinics: A Greene County Case Study |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Folder 238 |
Teens Against AIDS Project: A Practical Training Manual for AIDS Education Targeting Minority Adolescents |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Folder 239 |
A Critical Analysis of Community Participation: The Case of Costa Rica |
Folder 240 |
The Extent and Effect of AIS Education Policies in North Carolina Local Education Agencies |
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.
Arrangement: alphabetical by title.