Building America's Health: The people speak; excerpts from regional public hearings on health

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Page ii - SECTION 1. — There is hereby established a commission to be known as the industrial welfare commission, hereinafter called the commission.
Page iii - SEC. 3. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government are authorized and directed to cooperate with the Committee and to furnish it such information and assistance, not inconsistent with law, as it may require in the performance of its duties.
Page 161 - The purpose of this report is to bring to the attention of...
Page 34 - We continue to underestimate the size of the problem in spite of the fact that we know that more than half of the hospital beds in the United States are...
Page iii - August 31, 1951). Such payments shall be made without regard to the provisions of (a) section 3681 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (31 USC 672), (b) section 9 of the act of March 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1027 (31 USC 673), and (c) such other laws as the President may hereafter specify.
Page 1 - Good medical care is coordinated with social welfare work. 7. Good medical care coordinates all types of medical services. 8. Good medical care implies the application of all the necessary services of modern scientific medicine to the needs of all the people.
Page iii - June 30, 1955, the expenditures of the Commission shall be paid out of an allotment made by the President from the appropriation entitled "Emergency Fund for the President — National Defense...
Page 459 - The goal of rehabilitation is to restore the patient to the greatest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness of which he is 'Delivered at Regional Hearing In Minneapolis, Minn., September 2, 1952.
Page 109 - The American Academy of Pediatrics, with the cooperation of the United States Public Health Service and the United States Children's Bureau, xxv+270 p. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND: NEW YORK. 1949. $3.50. This is the first nationwide study of health services for a segment of the population. The results of three years...
Page xvi - Social Planning Council of St. Louis and St. Louis County, St. Louis, Missouri.

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