TY  - JOUR
T1  - PUblic responsibility for safeguarding the health of children
AU  - ELIOT MM
Y1  - 1939/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990040180014
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 916
EP  - 930
VL  - 57
IS  - 4
N2  - In view of the present nationwide interest in developing and expanding public health work and maternal and child health services to include medical care of the sick, it seems timely to discuss public responsibility for safeguarding the health of children, to trace the growth of this responsibility in the nation and its reflection in political action, to report progress in public administration and to point out gaps in the present child health program. Public concern for the health and welfare of children is a relatively recent development, dependent in large measure on the evolution during the past century of basic knowledge of causes of disease, of methods of prevention and treatment, of the processes of growth and development and of the effect of social and economic factors on the child's physical and emotional well-being. Public action in the form of protective legislation or legislation to provide for health and welfare
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990040180014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990040180014
ER  -