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General Of Health Services: In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of health services of the Public Health Service.
Health and Welfare.—The province provides direct health guidance and preventive medicine services through some 70 health units operating in the settled areas (except large urban areas, such as Montreal and Quebec, which have their own health services). Care of the needy, sick, and other persons is carried out largely by voluntary religious and lay organizations, the cost being met chiefly by the province, with smaller contributions from the institution caring for the person aided and from his municipality of residence.
A health manpower report prepared by the National Commission of Community Health Services showed that the U.S. hospitals and health organizations were maintaining the ratio of 150 doctors per 100,000 population only by filling out one-fifth of their needs with physicians from other countries. The demand for health care had also created serious shortages of nurses and other paramedical personnel. Among the solutions being suggested were new methods of health care organization and government support for new or expanded education programs in the health sciences. |
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