Public health and insurance: American addresses
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Excerpt from Public Health and Insurance: American AddressesAfter more than three decades of work in preventive medicine and public health, the opportunity has arisen in connection with a year's visit to America, to take a panoramic view of public health in England, of the progress which has been secured, of the factors which have impeded progress, and of the pressing desiderata for more efficient future action.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical w...
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- PUBLIC HEALTH AND INSURANCE: AMERICAN ADDRESSES
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I Public Health Progress in England During the Last Fifty Years[1]
- Parallelism of Events in New and Old England
- The Utilisation of Lay Workers
- Laissez Faire Economic Teaching
- Man and His Environment
- Dirt and Disease
- Cholera
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhus Fever
- General Results in the Saving of Life
- Specific Causation of Disease
- Present Limitations of Epidemiology
- The Importance of Vital Statistics
- Conditions of Medical Practice Bearing on Public Health
- Poor Law v. Public Health
- Insurance v. Public Health
- A National Medical Service
- Hospitals Important Housing Auxiliaries
- The need to avoid Complacency
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II The Historical Development of Public Health Policy in England[5]
- Town-living and Health Problems
- Scope of Constructive Health Work
- Reform in the Control of Poverty
- Reform in Industry
- Public Health Reform
- Public Health Reforms
- Education Authorities and Health
- The Ad Hoc Vice
- Principles of Local Government
- The Training and Tenure of Office of Health Officers
- The National Insurance Act and Public Health
- Provision for Sickness
- General Summary
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III The Increasing Socialization of Medicine[9]
- The Past Achievements of Medicine
- Increasing Importance of Hospitals
- Hospitals as a Partial Solution of Housing Difficulties
- The Continuing Mass of Preventible Disease
- Present Extent of Socialization of Medicine
- Destitution and Sickness
- Insurance versus Public Health
- The Need of the Future
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV Insurance and Health[11]
- Criteria of Value of Insurance
- Medical Benefit
- General Practitioner Treatment
- Evils of the Present Medical Benefit
- The State Treatment of Disease
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V Some Problems of Preventive Medicine of the Immediate Future[13]
- Gains from War
- The Work of Women
- Prohibition of Alcoholic Drinks
- Respiratory Diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Venereal Diseases
- The Mother and the Child
- The Work of Voluntary Agencies
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI The Inter-relation of Various Social Efforts[14]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII The Obstacles to and Ideals of Health Progress [15]
- Obstacles
- Urbanization
- Industrialism
- Poverty
- The Malthusian Hypothesis
- Ignorance
- Defects of Character
- Ideals
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII Some Aspects of Poverty [16]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX The Causation of Tuberculosis and the Measures for its Control in England[17]
- Basic Facts as to Tuberculosis
- Explanations of the Decreasing Death-rate from Tuberculosis
- Hospital Treatment of Consumptives
- Koch’s Endorsement of Segregation View
- Improved Housing as a Means of Reducing Tuberculosis
- Notification of Tuberculosis
- Causes of Failure in Notification
- Public Health Action Following Notification
- Examination of Contacts
- Scope of Tuberculosis Schemes
- Tuberculosis Dispensaries
- Tuberculosis Dispensaries should become Parts of General Dispensaries
- The Home Visitation of Patients
- “Sanatorium Benefit.”
- Residential Institutions
- Sanatoria and Combined Institutions
- Observation Beds
- General Observations on Treatment in Sanatoria
- Educational Work of Sanatoria
- Hospital Treatment
- Industrial Colonies
- Special Dwellings and Help in Support
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER X Child Welfare Work in England [18]
- The Notification of Births
- The Causes of Child Mortality
- The Influence of School Medical Inspection
- The Influence of Statistical Studies
- The Course of Mortality from Childbearing
- The Midwives Act, 1902
- Training and Provision of Midwives
- Ante-natal Work
- Dental Assistance
- Creches
- Observation Beds at Child Welfare Centres
- FOOTNOTES:
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