THE CHALLENGE OF FACTS: Selected Public Health Papers... [First Edn.]

by Sydenstricker, Edgar; Kasius, R., ed

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NY:: PRODIST/Milbank Memorial Fund,, 1974. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine label/marks; otherwise rather good.. bibliography. With b&w tables, charts, etc. Located at National Library of Medicine, Yale, Harvard, Univ. of Chicago, & Library of Congress. ||| 17 essays by Sydenstricker (1881-1936), pioneering / first USPHS statistician; gathered data of links between morbidity & poverty. His methodology, reasoning & conclusions are now fundamental to public health practices. Showed cause-&-effect between poverty & disease such as TB, pellagra; economic benefits of minimum health care & necessity of paying for services. Professionally & politically condemned as radical, too expensive, Soviet-style medicine. The 1935 Social Security Act eventually took steps toward minimum health care coverage. ||| He was brother of Pearl S. [Sydenstricker] Buck.