Citation

Eliot MM. Am. J. Dis. Child. (1911) 1939; 57(4): 916-930.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1939, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990040180014

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In view of the present nationwide interest in developing and expanding public health work and maternal and child health services to include medical care of the sick, it seems timely to discuss public responsibility for safeguarding the health of children, to trace the growth of this responsibility in the nation and its reflection in political action, to report progress in public administration and to point out gaps in the present child health program. Public concern for the health and welfare of children is a relatively recent development, dependent in large measure on the evolution during the past century of basic knowledge of causes of disease, of methods of prevention and treatment, of the processes of growth and development and of the effect of social and economic factors on the child's physical and emotional well-being.