The Health Services Administration: improving the access to health care of the nation's underserved.
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چکیده
THE ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE are found in the Act of 1798 to improve the health of sick and disabled merchant seamen. That act and its subsequent amendments have provided an unbroken legislative authority for the operation of our country's oldest organized system of hospital care for a specified population. This system of health care delivery, now known as the Public Health Service Hospitals and Clinics, operates as a Division of the Health Services Administration. Therefore, it is particularly fitting to describe the present status and future challenges of the Health Services Administration in this 100th year special issue of Public Health Reports.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Public health reports
دوره 93 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1978