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Concerned With Health: Medicine was moving rapidly in two direc-in recent months, and in both it was ex-ding well beyond the traditional confines of i art of healing. The new emphasis in treat-was on individual and community health er than on illness. Primarily research Concerned with health with the basic processes of lire, studying diseases in terms of the shape behavior of atoms and molecules. At the time medicine was Concerned with health with its ition as a social institution reaching out to vide health care for all the people while ying ways of maintaining the level of com-ceof its practitioners.
The goal of health edu¬cation is to help persons live zestful and produc¬tive lives in an environment that is as free as possible of threatening or damaging conditions (though it may be full of challenges). As a dis¬cipline health education draws content from the physical, biological, medical, and behavioral sci¬ences. Since it is Concerned with health with mental and social, as well as physiological, well-being, health education is a broader field than physical edu¬cation.See Also Programs Of Health Education:About 70 colleges and universities offer programs of health education to train health education teachers, and the profession is growing. Members of the pro¬fession feel strongly that health education should not be considered a part of physical education and that physical education should not be a branch of health education. Some high schools now give a half year to physical education and a half year to health instruction.
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 govern¬ment support for new or expanded education programs of health education in the health sciences.
On The Other Hand See Public Health Associations:A new organization, the World Federation of Public Health Associations, was formed in Ge¬neva, Switz. The function of this agency was to speed the exchange of information between countries and to complement the WHO by pro¬viding more informal channels of communi¬cation and the additional stimulus of enthusiasm from voluntary public health associations.
In 1968 the Public Health Service was reor¬ganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administra¬tion, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Adminis¬tration, 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 the Public Health Service. |
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