Public Health Service grants to construct health facilities.
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GRANT PROGRAMS designed to stimulate and support the building of health facil¬ ities have grown markedly in terms of both kind and volume of construction aided. In 1946 the first Public Health Service construction grant program, the Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act, was passed. The initial authorization was $75 million for fiscal year 1948. Until the enactment of the Health Research Facilities Act in 1956, the Hill-Burton program
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Public health reports
دوره 82 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1967