The Nation's Health: Discussion at the National Health Conference, July 18, 19, 20, 1938, Washington, D. C. |
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administration agencies American Dental Association American Hospital Association American Medical Association annual average beds benefits centers Chairman Chicago child health services Children's Bureau cities CLIFFORD G clinics Committee on Medical compensation cooperation coordination costs death diagnosis disability discussion diseases doctors economic families Federal Government field funds groups health departments health insurance health officers illness inadequate individual industrial institutions Interdepartmental Committee maternal and child medical profession medical services medicine meet ment mental million Miss Roche National Health Conference national health program National Health Survey Negroes NEVILLE MILLER organized patients percent persons physicians Plan of Attack.-The pneumonia population President preventive problem professional proposals Public Health Service public medical recommendations relief rural areas School self-supporting sickness Social Security Act Social Security Board Technical Committee THOMAS PARRAN tion treatment tuberculosis United Automobile Workers United States Public voluntary Washington women workers York
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Page 10 - Act and shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy concerning old-age pensions, unemployment compensation, accident compensation, and related subjects.
Page 53 - Hospitalization and other institutional care, and vocational rehabilitation for workers who are disabled, are essential if those who can be restored to working capacity are to receive the necessary care. Without such facilities and services, the cost of invalidity annuities would be unnecessarily burdened.
Page 45 - ... bedside nursing care; and emergency dental care. The use of nongovernmental hospital beds for medically needy persons, paid for on a proper basis by public funds, is presumed as a part of this program wherever local conditions render this policy necessary or expedient. It is taken for granted that the medical and allied professions and institutions will participate in the administration of this program as has been the case in many States and communities.
Page 47 - ... for medical care in proportion to ability to pay. Sickness has become a hazard like death or unemployment in that it entails losses which may be greater than the individual can meet unaided from his own resources. The need for food, shelter, and clothing can be budgeted by the individual family; sickness costs can be budgeted only by a large group.
Page 16 - Care is firm in its conviction that, as progress is made toward the control of various diseases and conditions, as facilities and services commensurate with the high standards of American medical practice are made more generally available, the coming decade, under a national health program, will see a major reduction in needless loss of life and suffering — an increasing prospect of longer years of productive, self-supporting life in our population.
Page 28 - For the great majority of the 1,000,000 births attended each year in the home by a physician, there is no qualified nurse to aid in caring for the mother and baby.
Page 43 - ... of cases receiving extra-hospital medical care. Clinic supervision provides adequate medical care for certain ambulatory cases of illness, but the concentration of out-patient facilities in the large cities, greatly restricts the benefits of these services. Clinic care was received by 15 percent of the illnesses of the canvassed relief population in the metropolitan centers, but in the small cities under 25,000 population, 2 percent, and in the rural areas, only 0.2 percent of illnesses in relief...
Page 7 - For pneumonia, it was three and one-half times as high. For respiratory tuberculosis, it was seven times as high. The steel workers and their families know the full significance of the brief statement that over a...
Page 31 - Expansion of facilities for conservation of health of mothers and their newborn infants should provide for — Medical care of mothers and their newborn infants throughout the period of maternity and the neonatal period, including care of the mothers at delivery in the home or in hospital, and of their newborn infants, by qualified local physicians with the aid of specialized consultants, assisted by nurses, preferably public health nurses, trained in obstetric nursing procedure. Facilities for expert...