A Sanitary Research Laboratory — Medical Schools of the United States — Meeting of the American Public Health Association — Medical Notes

1905 ◽  
Vol 153 (8) ◽  
pp. 228-232
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Association Medical

Infant, Perinatal, Maternal, and Childhood Mortality in the United States: Vital and Health Statistics Monographs, American Public Health Association, by Sam Shapiro, Edward R. Schlesinger, M.D., and Robert E.L. Nesbitt, Jr., M.D. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968, 388 pp., $7.95

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-468
Author(s):  
Bea J. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Health Association

This book, one in the series of "Vital and Health Statistics Monographs" of the American Public Health Association, is a well documented study of childhood mortality in the United States up to 1964. The data, supplemented by information from special studies, are mainly derived from vital statistics of the United States and upstate New York. Some 80 tables and figures in the text and about half this number in the Appendix review mortality data in different age periods from 1935 to 1964, with emphasis on comparison of the years around 1950 with those around 1960 in relation to such variables as sex, birth weight, ethnic group, cause of death, age of mother, parity, geographic area, and socioeconomic group.

THE FOOD EQUIPMENT STANDARDS PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL SANITATION FOUNDATION*

1953 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Charles L. Senn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
International Association ◽  
Food Service ◽  
United States Public Health ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Health Association

The procedures of the 3-A Standards Committee of the International Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians are being used as a guide in developing similar standards for general food service equipment. This work is being carried out through a Joint Committee on Food Equipment Standards working under the auspices of the National Sanitation Foundation. Among the organizations represented are the International Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians, United States Public Health Service and American Public Health Association. Standards for soda fountains, dishwashing machines and general food service equipment have already been developed in cooperation with the affected industries. These standards, soon to be published by the Foundation, should be of material assistance to food sanitarians and food industry representatives.

Mexico’s Superior Health Council and the American Public Health Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public Health, 1887–1910

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-602
Author(s):  
Paul Ross
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Health Council ◽  
Health Association

Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Mexico’s Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease reporting, internationally demonstrated competence in campaigns against tropical disease, and participation in multilateral health agreements. The council came to command a central role in the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1877–1911), mainly because this international strategy enabled a successful defense of Mexican sovereignty. In the arena of public health, the council, led by Eduardo Licéaga, came close to realizing the Científicos’ dream of Mexican development “without U.S. investment.” This was largely because the council obtained independent access to European ideas and technologies prior to its engagement with the United States, which began in 1890 when the first Mexican delegation attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Through a persistent and creative diplomatic campaign, taking advantage of relationships cultivated through the APHA, Porfirio Díaz’s sanitary advisors persuaded many of their American counterparts that Mexican experts could be trusted partners in defending the health of the western hemisphere. The article describes the Atlantic world of Mexican medicine in the nineteenth century, the significance of public health within a context shaped by rising U.S. imperialism, the key role played by Licéaga, and Mexico’s participation in the APHA.

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