Health Inquiry: Heart disease, cancerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 3151 pages pt.8: Contains two compilations. a. "Health and Maternity Insurance Throughout the World," Feb. 1954, by Carl H. Farman, SSA (p. 2565-2629). b. "Hospital and Medical Care Programs in Great Britain, Sweden, New Zealand, and Australia," Feb. 1954, by Martha D. Ring, PHS (p. 2631-3151) |
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Page 51
... measure precisely the human suffering involved and these facts are only suggestive of the tremendous economic loss . HEART DISEASE AS A CAUSE OF DEATH AND ILLNESS 1. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States . 2 ...
... measure precisely the human suffering involved and these facts are only suggestive of the tremendous economic loss . HEART DISEASE AS A CAUSE OF DEATH AND ILLNESS 1. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States . 2 ...
Page 54
... measures subscribed for and maintained and used , may mean he must give up plans for an adequate home for the family ... measure ; secondly , that we can develop a program for diagnosis , prevention , care , and cure , by the raising of ...
... measures subscribed for and maintained and used , may mean he must give up plans for an adequate home for the family ... measure ; secondly , that we can develop a program for diagnosis , prevention , care , and cure , by the raising of ...
Page 56
... measures can prevent permanent heart damage in a high percentage of children who have suffered a single attack of carditis , and that the extension of injury can be reduced in those whose hearts have already been damaged . In surgical ...
... measures can prevent permanent heart damage in a high percentage of children who have suffered a single attack of carditis , and that the extension of injury can be reduced in those whose hearts have already been damaged . In surgical ...
Page 57
... measures . But even today treatment from various directions is better than a decade ago and is improving as time goes on . Surgery , drugs , psychotherapy , and special diets have all been used with fre- quently , but not uniformly ...
... measures . But even today treatment from various directions is better than a decade ago and is improving as time goes on . Surgery , drugs , psychotherapy , and special diets have all been used with fre- quently , but not uniformly ...
Page 61
... measures evolved from re- search , have made this conquest possible . Diphtheritic heart disease and fatalities from it , once far from rare , have decreased almost to the vanishing point . Congential heart disease was not many years ...
... measures evolved from re- search , have made this conquest possible . Diphtheritic heart disease and fatalities from it , once far from rare , have decreased almost to the vanishing point . Congential heart disease was not many years ...
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