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Environmental Health Problems: A U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare task force on environmental health problems health issued a report entitled "A Strategy for a Livable Environment," which stated in conclusion:
Danger to environmental health problems quality, particularly in the broad context, is among the most important domestic problems facing the nation today. It affects all Americans where they live, where they work, and where they play. The environment can materially damage their children and generations yet unborn.
The task force considered the following areas of environmental health problems health as ones of immediate concern: air pollution; water quality; waste disposal; urban contamination; population problems; toxic materials, metals, and chemicals; consumer protection; radiation hazards; occupational illness; and other related problems. The recommendations of this task force set the stage for long-term programs of environmental health problems improvement in the U.S. (See Year in Review: environmental health problems SCIENCES.)
John W. Gardner left the office of secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on March 1, 1968, and was succeeded by Wilbur Cohen. On March 31, 1968, a considerable reorganization of the department's health activities was announced. The basis of the reorganization was the country's rapidly changing needs in medical education and research, in the delivery of health services, and in coping with disease and environmental health problems problems. |
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