Research Catalog

Title

Government in public health / Harry S. Mustard, B.S., M.D., LL.D., DeLamar professor of public health practice and director, school of public health, faculty of medicine, Columbia University.

Author

Mustard, Harry S. (Harry Stoll), 1889-1966

Publication

New York : The Commonwealth Fund, 1945.

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Details

Additional Authors

Commonwealth Fund, publisher.

Description

xvi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 219 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

In this monograph, Dr. Mustard brings out the rapid extension of the field of public health as one of the important trends in modern medicine. Recognizing that public health activity originated as a local responsibility, Dr. Mustard describes the growing interest on the part of the state and federal governments and, in so doing, faces squarely the present trend toward increased federal control through the Public Health Service. He also makes clear that this trend may be ascribed in large part to the lack of efficiency at the local level where, in many communities, either the leadership or the public support was inferior to that available to the Public Health Service. The fact that basic public health services are as yet by no means available to all communities in the country is to Dr. Mustard the immediate challenge to the Public Health Service, and he raises the question whether, until that challenge is met, the time is ripe to consider nation-wide activities in new and highly specialized lines. Turning to organization and activities of state health departments, Dr. Mustard traces their natural development and describes their proper sphere of action. He also very clearly indicates the recently increased responsibility of state administrators as intermediaries between the federal and local authorities in the distribution of funds appropriated as grants-in-aid from the federal to the local governments, and points out the trend toward an increase of such grants in the future.-- Preface

Series Statement

Studies of the New York Academy of Medicine, Committee on medicine and the changing order

Uniform Title

Studies of the New York Academy of Medicine Committee on Medicine and the Changing Order

Subject

• Gemeindeverwaltung
• Graubünden Regierung
• Public health > United States
• Public health
• Health planning
• Public Health
• Health Planning
• public health
• Health planning
• Public health
• Gesundheitsverwaltung
• Gesundheitswesen
• Versorgungskonzept
• Regierung
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• "References" at end of each chapter except the last.

Contents

Certain preliminary considerations -- Federal health services -- State health departments -- Local health departments -- Activities of government in a public health program -- A summary of trends and a consideration of certain needs.

LCCN

sg 45000025

OCLC

• ocm01106873
• 1106873
• SCSB-256065

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library