For the Nation's Health (Public Health Service, 1952)

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Channel: National Library of Medicine · 2017 · Science & Technology

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This film describes the Public Health Service. It gives a brief history of the Public Health Service and describes and shows the missions, duties, and employees of its bureaus. Duties include: clinical research; health care for the armed services personnel and their families and Indians on reservations; sanitation standards; health statistic reports; rodent and air quality control; grants for research and for building of health care facilities, occupational health research, and more.

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