This paper considers the elements that determine the health situation in any country: the
specific hazards to health, the health services, and the general determinants which influence …

D URING the past quarter century, the growth of activity toward the improve-ment of the
public health has been unprecedented. Although this has occurred through-out the world …

The characterization of the overall health status of a population or of an individual is not a
simple task. Many factors must be considered. Factors relating to mortality, such as life …

T iS the purpose of this paper to exam-ine the extent and characteristics of the health
problems the United States will be facing in the 1970's and to suggest some alternative …

Various measures of the health status of the population of the United States show there is
considerable room for improvement. Compared with other industrialized nations, we are …

The root meaning of epidemiology, of course, is" that which is upon the people." Essential to
the epidemiologicalperspective is knowledge both of the numerator (numberof cases …

WHEN become GIVEN selective, such and a title I am one going has to to become selective,
and I am going to confine myself to a study of health services in the'developed world'. In …

The Government of the United States is reviewing on a continuing basis the national health
activities of other countries in order to better serve the escalating medical requirements of …

This chartbook presents basic data on some of the more important indicators of our Nation's
health, selected from the second annual report by the Secretary of Health, Education, and …

NO one doubts the need for increasing federal activities in cooperation with the state public
health authorities for the prevention of disease, but there is an honest difference of opinion …