Facts on the Major Killing and Crippling Diseases in the United States Today
Facts on the Major Killing and Crippling Diseases in the United States Today
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关于当今美国主要致死和致残疾病的事实
DOI：
10.2105/ajph.45.8.1072-a
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发表时间：
1955
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
R. M. Atwater
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作者：
R. M. Atwater
《当今美国主要致死和致残疾病的事实》——纽约：国家卫生委员会（列克星敦大道405号），1955年。供应有限。本卷由国家健康教育委员会编纂，主要涉及心脏病、癌症、精神疾病、关节炎、失明、神经系统疾病和其他一些健康问题。这些事实的来源归功于对这些特定疾病感兴趣的自愿卫生机构、国家卫生研究院、国家生命统计办公室以及其他自愿和政府机构。总的来说，本卷的目的是向公众、立法者和政府行政人员以戏剧性的形式介绍有关美国死亡率和发病率的基本事实。内容类似于拉斯克基金会（Lasker Foundation）近年来出版的《概况介绍》（Fact Sheets），但增加了图形方法，以引起人们对医学科学成就及其对公众健康的影响的关注。对这些疾病的分类方法已经变得如此复杂和分散，以至于普通人需要一些指导来区分这些疾病，例如癫痫、多发性硬化症、肌肉萎缩症和帕金森症。公共卫生工作者将欢迎这些事实的普及。他们将认识到它在与立法者和其他人打交道时的有效性。在简短和戏剧性的形式中，有一些夸大的例子，声称医学研究对死亡率的下降负有责任，这些研究在组织良好的研究之前很久就开始了，例如结核病。然而，作为一个整体，这本书是有价值的，值得赞扬。雷金纳德·m·阿特沃特
Facts on the Major Killing and Crippling Diseases in the United States Today-New York: National Health Committee (405 Lexington Ave.), 1955. Limited supply. This volume, which has been compiled by the National Health Education Committee, Inc., concerns mainly heart diseases, cancer, mental illness, arthritis, blindness, neurological diseases, and some other health problems. The source of the facts is credited to the voluntary health agencies interested in these specific diseases, the National Institutes of Health, the National Office of Vital Statistics, and other voluntary and governmental agencies. In general, the purpose of this volume is to present to the lay public and to legislators and government administrators basic facts in dramatic form about mortality and morbidity in the United States. The content resembles the Fact Sheets published in recent years by the Lasker Foundation, but graphic methods have been added to draw attention to the achievements of medical science and their effect on the public health. The categorical approach to these diseases has become so complex and so diffuse that the man of the street needs some orientation to distinguish between such conditions, for example, as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and Parkinsonism. Public health workers will welcome this popularization of many of these facts. They will recognize its effectiveness in dealing with law makers and others. In the abbreviated and dramatic form there are some examples of overstatement and of claims that medical research has been responsible for the declines in mortality which were under way long before such studies were well organized as, for example, in the case of tuberculosis. As a whole, however, the volume serves a valuable purpose and is to be commended. REGINALD M. ATWATER