American Public Health Association records, 1938-1972 (inclusive).

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American Public Health Association records, 1938-1972 (inclusive).

Papers collected by Arthur J. Viseltear in connection with his research on the development of the American Public Health Association's Medical Care Section. Included are relevant records from the organization (1940-1957) documenting its research into the question of incorporating medical care into public health with special reports on medical care for the indigent, rural medicine, and relations between hospitals and health departments.

7 linear ft. (15 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8027431

Yale University Library

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Breslow, Lester

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Biography Dr. Breslow is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. He was active in the campaign for Proposition 99, and has served on many committees whose purpose is oversight of the use of funds generated by Proposition 99. From the guide to the Lester Breslow Tobacco Control Papers, 1989-1994, (University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections) ...

Falk, Leslie A.

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Born in 1915, Leslie A. Falk attend Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and obtained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights and served as its first field secretary in Mississippi. After a medical career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, he studied African-American history in his retirement. From the description of Falk (Leslie A.) African American history research collection, 1842-1999. (Unive...

Solon, Jerry A.

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Kimmey, James R. (James Richard), 1935-

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Mountin, Joseph W. (Joseph Walter), 1891-1952

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Joseph Walter Mountin (1891-1952) was born and educated in Wisconsin. He received his medical degree from Marquette University School of Medicine in 1914. During World War I he joined the U.S. Public Health Service. Mountin was special assistant to the commissioner of the Tennessee State Health Department from 1927 to 1931. During the 1930s he worked in and eventually became director of the PHS Office of Studies of Public Health Methods. In 1946, while director of the PHS's States Relations Divi...

Atwater, Reginald Myers, 1892-1957.

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Huxley, Matthew

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Goldmann, Franz

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Physician, educator; born Elberfeld, Germany; M.D., Friedrick Wilhelms University, Berlin, 1920; came to U.S., 1937, naturalized, 1943; fellow Dept. Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, 1937-1939, associate clinical professor, 1939-1946, clinical professor, 1946-1947, lecturer 1947-1949; associate professor Harvard School Public Health, 1947-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1970. From the description of Franz Goldmann papers, 1939-1968 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702...

Emerson, Haven, 1874-1957

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Haven Emerson : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730504 ...

Schoen, Max Howard, 1922-

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Perrott, George St. J. (George St. John), 1893-1980

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Chemist, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of George St. John Perrott : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419169 Perrott, a biostatistician, directed the National Health Survey of 1935-1936. He was with the U. S. Public Health Service from 1933-1958, and from 1962-1975 worked with the Group Health Association of America. From the description of George St. John Perrott papers, 1920-19...

Sinai, Nathan, 1894-1977

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Terris, Milton, 1915-

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Dearing, Warren Palmer.

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Carroll, Terence

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Brindle, James.

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Weinerman, Edwin Richard 1917-1970

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Edwin R. Weinerman: physician, educator and hospital administrator; faculty member, University of California School of Public Health, 1948-1950; medical director, Permanente Health Plan, 1950-1951; medical director, Herrick Memorial Hospital Clinic, El Cerrito, California, 1955-1962; on the faculty of Yale University School of Medicine, 1962-1970; director of Ambulatory Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1962-1968. From the description of Edwin Richard Weinerman papers, 1908-1970 (in...

Weinerman Memorial Fund.

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Dixon, James 1949-1974

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Riedel, Donald C., 1934-

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Myers, Beverlee A.

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Halverson, Wilton L.

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Rorem, C. Rufus (Clarence Rufus), 1894-1988

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Pioneer in the field of health economics. From the description of Manuscript and reprint collection, [ca. 1925]-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155473289 ...

Roemer, Milton Irwin, 1916-2001

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Milton Roemer was born in Paterson, NJ, March 24, 1916. He received his BA from Cornell University (1936), his MD from New York University (1940), and an MPH from the University of Michigan (1943). He interned at Barnert Memorial Hospital, in Paterson (1940-1941), was with the New Jersey Health Department from 1941 and 1942, and from 1943 to 1948 with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, DC. Dr. Roemer served as a member of the faculty of Yale University Medical School from 1949 to 195...

Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957

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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was born in 1877. He received degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1898 (B.S.) and 1899 (M.S.). He taught at the University of Chicago, the College of the City of New York, Columbia University, and Yale University. Winslow also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology (1916-1944), as a member of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, as president of the American Public Health Association (1926), as editor of the Americ...

Davis, Michael Marks, 1879-1971

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Michael Davis was one of the major figures in health care policy in the United States. He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee for the Nation's Health (CNH), incorporated in 1946 and abolished in 1956. Davis received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906. In Boston and then in New York, Davis led movements to extend dispensary services to people of moderate means. He later served as director of medical services for the Julius Rosenwald Fund and chaired the foundation-funded Com...

Krantz, Goldie, 1915-1976.

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In 1950, Goldie Krantz joined the staff of ILWU-PMA Welfare Fund, and served as its secretary until 1962. She became Program Analyst for the Group Health Association in 1962, a position she held until 1975. Krantz served as consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service from 1955-1962, and the Pacific Maritime Association, 1962-1968. From the description of Goldie Krantz papers, 1928-1977 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168436 In 1950, Goldie Krantz...

Esselstyn, Caldwell B., 1902-1975.

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Caldwell B. Esselstyn: physician, health care administrator; A.B., Yale, 1925; M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1929; established the Rip Van Winkle Foundation in 1946 [renamed the C. B. Esselstyn Foundation in 1975] in the Hudson River Valley to provide medical care for the impoverished; appointed to Public Health Council of New York, 1955-1963; organized support for federally sponsored health insurance for the aged [the Medicare Act of 1965]; director of the Commun...

Viseltear, Arthur J. (Arthur Jack), 1938-

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Arthur Jack Viseltear was born in New York City on March 19, 1938. He earned a B.A. from Tulane University in 1959, and an M.P.H. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in history in 1965 from the University of California at Los Angeles. From 1963 through 1969, he was a lecturer in public health at UCLA. In 1969, he was appointed an assistant professor of public health and research associate in the history of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in ...

Bierman, Pearl.

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Roberts, Dean W.

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Kline, Howard M.

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Kramer, Nathan A.

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Rosenfeld, Leonard S.

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Health care specialist. From the description of Reminiscences of Leonard S. Rosenfeld: oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513872 ...

Muller, Jonas Norman, 1920-1969.

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Clark, Dean Alexander, 1905-

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American public health association

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The American Public Health Association was founded in 1872 as a professional organization of physicians, nurses, educators, sanitary engineers, environmentalists, social workers, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, dentists, hygienists, and other community health specialists. In pursuit of its goal of protecting and promoting personal and environmental health, the APHA offers services including the promulgation of standards, the establishment of uniform practices and procedures, development ...

Brewster, Agnes Wharton, 1908-

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Hiscock, Ira V. (Ira Vaughan), 1892-

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Bacteriologist; member of the Conn. Dept. of Health, 1914-1917; from 1920-1960, professor of public health, Yale University; innovator in the areas of public health surveys and state and local health councils; frequent consultant and volunteer to local, state, and national social welfare agencies. From the description of Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979 (inclusive), 1925-1939 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702205907 From the guide to the Ira Vaughan Hiscock pape...

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984

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Public health specialist. From the description of Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481519 Isidore Sydney Falk, bacteriologist, public health medical economist, and social security expert, received his Ph.B. from Yale in 1920, and his Ph.D. in 1923. Falk was a professor of bacteriology at the University of Chicago from 1923-1929; a research associate at the Milbank Memorial Fund fr...