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federal health efforts
- In public health: Variations among developed countries
  …federal, or national, level, the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services is the principal health agency, but several other departments have health interests and responsibilities. Federal health agencies accept responsibility for improving state and local services, for controlling interstate health hazards, and for working with…
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notifiable diseases
- In notifiable disease
  Marine Hospital Service (later the Public Health Service, PHS) began gathering data on infectious diseases, including cholera and yellow fever, from overseas consuls. U.S. health officials used the data to develop quarantine measures to protect the country’s population against disease outbreaks. In 1893 the collection of data on notifiable diseases…
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work of Minnigerode
- In Lucy Minnigerode
  …the Red Cross and the U.S. Public Health Service.
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In Tuskegee syphilis study
Public Health Service (PHS) from 1932 to 1972, examined the natural course of untreated syphilis in African American men. The research was intended to test whether syphilis caused cardiovascular damage more often than neurological damage and to determine if the natural course of syphilis in…
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presidential apology
- In Presidential Apology for the Study at Tuskegee
  Public Health Service (PHS) at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama, was originally projected to last six months but spanned 40 years—from 1932 to 1972. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of untreated syphilis in black men. The men…
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