Author: Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674722361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This social history is an ideal model for evaluating our current definition of public health. Rosenkrantz perceptively traces the development of the Massachusetts State Board of Health--established in 1869 as the first state institution in the United States responsible for preventing unnecessary mortality and promoting all aspects of public health.