Health Care for the Community

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THE HOUSING ENVIRONMENT AND FAMILY LIFE
A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Housing on Morbidity and Mental Health
by Daniel M. Wilner, Rosabelle P. Walkley, Thomas C. Pinkerton, and Matthew Tayback
338 pages $7.50
"What specific effects does housing have on physical and mental heakh? What happens to the attitudes and morale of low-income families when they are moved from the slums into a better housing environment? There have been a good man\ popular suppositions and scholarly hypotheses on these matters, but do the facts bear them out? This book is a report on the remarkable experiment made in Baltimore to obtain the facts."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The house we live in has an important bearing on family health and welfare and school performance of children. These are the conclusions of a comprehensive six-year study among 1,000 families."—Los Angeles Independent
"The most extensive and expensive study of slum-versus-good living conditions ever conducted has... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE HOUSING ENVIRONMENT AND FAMILY LIFE
A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Housing on Morbidity and Mental Health
by Daniel M. Wilner, Rosabelle P. Walkley, Thomas C. Pinkerton, and Matthew Tayback
338 pages $7.50
"What specific effects does housing have on physical and mental heakh? What happens to the attitudes and morale of low-income families when they are moved from the slums into a better housing environment? There have been a good man\ popular suppositions and scholarly hypotheses on these matters, but do the facts bear them out? This book is a report on the remarkable experiment made in Baltimore to obtain the facts."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The house we live in has an important bearing on family health and welfare and school performance of children. These are the conclusions of a comprehensive six-year study among 1,000 families."—Los Angeles Independent
"The most extensive and expensive study of slum-versus-good living conditions ever conducted has confirmed a long-time assumption: Health and morale are affected by housing environment."—Baltimore Sunday Sun
"Public housing alone cannot do the job of making healthier, more socially acceptable citizens out of slum-dwellers; social rehabilitation requires more than the availability of good housing. That's the conclusion that emerges from the long awaited (15 years) Baltimore research study."—Journal of Housing
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, Baltimore 18, Maryland
HEALTH CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY
Selected Papers of Dr. John B. Grant
Edited by Conrad Seipp
In the field of public health, the name of John B. Grant is synonymous with the development of regional health services. From the beginning of his professional career in 1920 to his death in 1962, Dr. Grant's major concern was for a more rational organization of the human effort directed toward health improvement. No other individual worked more effectively for the establishment of the community health center, especially in China, India, and Puerto Rico.
Associated with the Rockefeller Foundation since 1918, Dr. Grant i served the cause of public health in I many lands. Throughout, his work I was motivated by three great themes. \ First of these was the provision of coordinated health services through 'j regionalized systems. In the view of I many. Dr. Grant was ahead of his time. His proposals for regionalized health service may well be more important now than they were a few years ago, especially because of the
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expanding activity of the United States in organizing health services in underdeveloped countries.
The second theme of Dr. Grant's work was his advocacy of field training for the health care professions. For decades he urged that the training institution provide itself with a field practice area to serve as a social laboratory for training, service, and research.
The third major theme was Dr. Grant's insistence that health is a social pursuit. Health care is an integral part of nation-building, he contended, and—especially in developing countries—is proportionate to progress in education, agriculture, housing, transportation, and communications.
The papers in this volume, half of them never published before and therefore not generally available, are organized around the three dominant themes of Dr. Grant's lifework. Since Dr. Grant was a man of vigorous action rather than words, many of the best, most trenchantly expressed, and most important of the papers are memoranda.
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THE EDITOR: Conrad Seipp is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Pubhc Health, University of Pittsburgh. He was formerly associated with Dr. Grant at the University of Puerto Rico.
THE JOHN HOPKINS PRESS
Baltimore 18, Maryland Vissza