National public health leader Caswell Evans talks of 'doing less with less.' (American Public Health Association)(Medical News & Perspectives)(Interview)

Article Abstract:

Public health leader Caswell Evans believes public health deals with populations at risk of developing diseases, while clinical medicine deals with treating individual cases. He views the primary functions of public health to be health promotion and protection and disease prevention. Evans works in Los Angeles County, where cuts to the public health budget have caused reduction in individual services but not in programs for immunizations, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and environmental health. However, Evans argues that cutting funding for public health will cause public health to suffer. Evans also point out that Proposition 187, which bans the treatment of illegal immigrants, would harm the public, allowing communicable diseases to spread. He also says that affirmative action, which has been threatened in California, is essential to providing public health workers that can effectively respond to an ethnically diverse population.

Management, Interview, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public health administration, Evans, Caswell A., Jr.

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18th Century medical institution renews its educational and scientific mission

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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia has created an exhibit to encourage the public to use the college's information resources. Founded in 1787, the college includes the C. Everett Koop Community Health Information Center, where reference librarians provide information packets to the public free of charge. The college also provides continuing education for its approximately 1900 Fellows as well as public lectures and conferences. The campus includes the Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine and the Mutter Museum.

Services, Information services, Health education, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Complementary Strategies to Prevent Firearm Injury

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Many different strategies may be needed to decrease injuries from firearms. One method is to prohibit people who have committed a crime from buying a gun. In California, such a law led to a decrease in the number of repeat crimes committed by these criminals.

Editorial, Methods, Laws, regulations and rules, Pistols, Crime prevention

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