Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Family Planning
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The family planning movement in America began in 1912 when Margaret Sanger tried to distribute information about birth control. In 1916, she opened the first family planning clinic in the US, in Brooklyn, New York. She opened more clinics during the 1920s and 1930s and by the 1930s, some state health departments were offering family planning services. In 1965, the Supreme Court in Griswold vs. Connecticut struck down state laws prohibiting contraceptive use by married couples. By then, birth control pills and intrauterine devices were available. Smaller families and longer birth intervals have improved the health of infants, children, and women.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Public Health Aspects of the Rainbow Family of Living Light Annual Gathering--Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, 1999
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Local health departments need to create guidelines for people who hold large outdoor events. The event's planners should be responsible for working with local public health staff to ensure that proper water supplies and sanitary facilities are available. Planners should also be apprised of any local environmental hazards and diseases that could affect people attending the event. About 20,000 people attended a two-week event in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest in the summer of 1999. No sanitary facilities were available and streams were the only water supply. Local hospitals treated 112 attendees for a variety of ailments.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Changes in the Public Health System
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The greatest public health achievements in the US in the 20th century include vaccination, motor-vehicle safety, safer workplaces, safer food, fluoridation of drinking water, control of infectious diseases, family planning and contraception, a decline in deaths from heart disease, stroke, and childbirth, and the recognition that smoking is hazardous to health. These achievements were a result of changes in the US public health system.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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