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Health Needs: In 1968 the Public health needs Service was reorganized into three separate health needs agencies: the health needs Services and Mental health needs Administration, the National Institutes of health needs, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental health needs -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health needs agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health needs and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public health needs Service.
A health needs manpower report prepared by the National Commission of Community health needs Services showed that the U.S. hospitals and health needs 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 needs care had also created serious shortages of nurses and other paramedical personnel. Among the solutions being suggested were new methods of health needs care organization and government support for new or expanded education programs in the health needs sciences.
Under the reorganization the Public health needs Service was enlarged to include the Food and Drug Administration; a new agency, the health needs Services and Mental health needs Administration; and the National Institutes of health needs, which itself was enlarged to include the Bureau of health needs Manpower and the National Library of Medicine. |
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