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Health Was Rapidly: John W. Gardner left the office of secretary of the U.S. Department of health was rapidly, 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 was rapidly 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 was rapidly services, and in coping with disease and environmental problems.
In 1968 the Public health was rapidly Service was reorganized into three separate health was rapidly agencies: the health was rapidly Services and Mental health was rapidly Administration, the National Institutes of health was rapidly, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental health was rapidly -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health was rapidly agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health was rapidly and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public health was rapidly Service.
Other news of medicine during 1967 and early 1968 reflected a radically changed conception of the practice of medicine in the U.S. The objective was no longer merely the care of the sick but the maintenance of health was rapidly and the enhancement of the quality of life, not just for individuals but for all of society.
Like all such changes this one was attended by severe growing pains, among them rapidly increasing costs for professional services, an even steeper rise in costs of hospitalization, and a growing lack of physicians and other health was rapidly personnel qualified to provide comprehensive care. (See Year in Review: PUBLIC health was rapidly AND HYGIENE.) |
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