Communicable Disease Control Amendments--1972: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 14030 ... and H.R. 14455 ... April 27, 1972U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 201 pages |
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age group American Osteopathic Association American Social Health appropriate areas CARTER categorical Center for Disease committee communicable disease control congenital syphilis CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contact tracing counties and cities Department of Health diphtheria disease control programs efforts epidemic epidemiologic federal funds female Fiscal Year 1971 gonococcus health departments Health Officers Health Service Act incidence included increase infection infectious syphilis Jefferson County Joint Statement questionnaire LIBRARY OF CONGRESS male measles measles vaccine medicine ment million number of reported patients penicillin percent personnel Pfizer polio Premarital Premarital-Prenatal Premarital-Prenatal All STS prevention primary and secondary private physicians project grants Public Health Service Puerto Rico recommendations Rh disease ROGERS rubella schools secondary syphilis SENCER sex contacts Social Health Association STS All STS syphilis and gonorrhea TABLE tetanus Texas tion treated treatment tuberculosis tuberculosis control Vaccination Assistance VD control VD education venereal disease control ZAPP
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Page 51 - Dermatology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Neurology.
Page 51 - Commission was presented to the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs of the Department of Health Education and Welfare on April 4, 1972.
Page 53 - Disease with appropriate governmental and nongovernmental membership be established to make recommendations to the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for the implementation of the research and control programs designed to reduce the incidence of the venereal diseases.
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Page 57 - Verification of adequate immunization for age using the Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases* of the American Academy of Pediatrics as a guide.
Page 126 - ... be invoked which results in all of the State and local governments having adequate venereal disease control programs meeting some minimum standards established by the Federal Government If federal funds are to be made available to the State and local governments. There should also be a requirement that federal funds be used to supplement and not to supplant State and local funds. This could be accomplished by a return to specific venereal disease control appropriations for grants-in-aid to States...
Page 179 - ... to contribute to national protection against tuberculosis, venereal disease, rubella, measles, Rh disease, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough or other communicable diseases which are transmitted from State to State, are amenable to reduction, and which are determined by the Secretary [on the recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council] to be of national significance, and (2) the term "State" includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory...
Page 40 - ... to be called, to prepare and distribute suitable and necessary forms for the collection and compilation of such statistics, and said statistics, when transmitted...
Page 87 - (a) The Congress finds and declares that — "(1) the number of reported cases of venereal disease has reached epidemic proportions in the United States; "(2) the number of patients with venereal disease reported to public health authorities is only a fraction of those treated by physicians; "(3) the incidence of venereal disease is particularly high among individuals in the 20-24 age group, and in metropolitan areas; "(4) venereal disease accounts...
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