Government and Public Health in AmericaHow involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Public Health Servic |
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The Institute's funding in its first year of operation as the NIH was $43 000. This marked the advent of public funding of medical research and led to the truly phenomenal growth of the NIH, whose fiscal year (FY) 2004 budget is ...
The Institute's funding in its first year of operation as the NIH was $43 000. This marked the advent of public funding of medical research and led to the truly phenomenal growth of the NIH, whose fiscal year (FY) 2004 budget is ...
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Table 1 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Selected Calendar Years 1929-1965 Table 2 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita.
Table 1 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Selected Calendar Years 1929-1965 Table 2 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita.
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Table 2 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1966-1973 Type of Expenditure 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 Table 3 National Health Care ...
Table 2 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1966-1973 Type of Expenditure 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 Table 3 National Health Care ...
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Table 3 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1974-1981 Type of Expenditure 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Table 4 National Health Care ...
Table 3 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1974-1981 Type of Expenditure 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 Table 4 National Health Care ...
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Table 4 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1982-1989 Table 5 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita.
Table 4 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita Amounts by Type of Expenditure and Source of Funds, Calendar Years 1982-1989 Table 5 National Health Care Expenditures: Aggregates and Per Capita.
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Contents
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The Food and Drug Administration | 103 |
The Veterans Administration | 271 |
The National Institutes of Health | 340 |
Medicare | 444 |
Index | 503 |
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Page 186 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 133 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 345 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 454 - The American Public Welfare Association, and the National Association of Social Workers.
Page 133 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 250 - To the dispensing or distribution of any of the aforesaid drugs to a patient by a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under this chapter in the course of his professional practice only...
Page 440 - The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease.
Page 182 - ... interstate commerce, shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce, or at any time thereafter, on libel of information and condemned in any district court of...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Government and Public Health in America |
| Author | Ronald Hamowy |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1847204252, 9781847204257 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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